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31 October 2010

Now that’s text-based

A new way to interact with fiction from Jonathan M. Guberman on Vimeo.

Okay, this is officially the best use of an Arduino board to date.  In case you are unsure of what’s going on in the video, you are seeing a typewriter being used to create the text of Zork, my favorite text-based adventure game from the 80s. What a delightful mix of old and slightly less-old via the entirely new.

(Thanks, Engadget!)