Bluebox boards, anyone?

systems_glitch systems.glitch at gmail.com
Wed Jan 31 07:15:33 CST 2018


Neat! I'd be interested in a board. I missed out on the ones being handed
out at HOPE in 2008 (The Last HOPE, for which a friend and I embarked on a
last-minute trip to NYC for I think around $150 total, for the both of us).

Thanks,
Jonathan

On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 8:04 AM, David Griffith via cctalk <
cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:

>
> Would anyone like a bluebox PCB or two?
>
> This project was inspired by Don Froula's ProjectMF[1] in which he
> presents a PIC-based bluebox[2] and PCB (handed out at HOPE in 2008).  A
> big reason I like AVRs more than PICs is because the development software
> is OSS and free.  So I reimplemented Don's bluebox in C for an AVR
> ATtiny85.  The PCB started off an a drop-in replacement, but evolved into
> something designed to fit into a Hammond 1591XXM box instead of functioning
> as a lid for a Radio Shack 230-1801 box.  The Hammond box also comes in
> transluscent blue!
>
> The firmware code[3] is done.  I just have to do some tweaks once some
> test PCBs[4] are made because on the prototype, I wired up the keypad a bit
> strangely.  The code implements a 13-key bluebox, a DTMF keypad, a redbox
> for US, Canada, and UK, greenbox, and 2600 dial pulse.  The PCB needs work
> to correct some early design decisions that turned out to be non-optimal.
>
> [1] http://projectmf.org/
> [2] http://projectmf.org/bluebox.html
> [3] https://github.com/DavidGriffith/bluebox-avr
> [4] https://github.com/DavidGriffith/bluebox-esquire
>
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