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Besides blinking an LED, this was my first electronics project as well. I used the parallel port of a IBM PC XT to connect to the remote and turbo pascal to program it though. Port $387, baby.

It was 1991, I had many pimples and little popularity, but when the car moved by computer command, i felt like Thor the thunder god. Highly recommend.

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Exactly! Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. I feel like an Asgardian.

The homemade device I liked most was a little resistor ladder AD convertor, used with No$GB emulator.

I had nice resistors and sleeving and managed to fit it all into a D25 connector shell with a bit of cable coming out the back to connect to audio.

I don't know what the equivalent project would be on RPi or arduino today.

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