I wrote a Game Boy Color ROM that increases an on-screen counter while it's receiving infrared, and it was cool watching it go up with a TV remote and a Tamagotchi Connection.
It would be really cool to write something that actually properly interacts with a Tamagotchi Connection but I definitely need a lot more information about protocol and data rate and stuff, and I imagine I'd need something like an oscilloscope to figure that out.
@NovaSquirrel Getting an oscilloscope is worth it if you plan to do much electronics stuff. You can get some decent low-bandwidth (~50 MHz) ones for under $400 these days
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@rainwarrior @NovaSquirrel A *lot* of companies name their scopes DSOxxxx (it's a well-known acronym that just means "digital storage oscilloscope"); you'll need to specify what brand you're talking about
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@rainwarrior @NovaSquirrel *looks it up* Oh, it's one of those little pocket oscilloscopes. we've never used one of those, and have never really heard anything positive about them
probably better off finding a used tektronix on ebay or something
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@rainwarrior @NovaSquirrel yeah, i should also note that our opinions on this might be colored by the fact that we do electrical engineering as a job, and of course any tool you use regularly day in and day out you end up getting Opinions about
(also, we don't have to pay for the equipment we use at work. so the price is less of a concern to us--it needs to fit budgets, but that's more "we can get a $10k scope, but that $80k one is out of the question". companies have Too Much Money.)
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@Felthry I don't think I've got "several hundred dollars" levels of interest in electronics stuff yet, but I'll keep that in mind for if I get really into it later on