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Fixed my oscilloscope tonight and played with some vector stuff. Managed to adapt a vector brick breaker sample to use a 360 controller.

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the scopes we used in college had a Tetris Easter egg if you held the right buttons down when you powered it on. I think they were HPs from back when HP still made cool stuff? can't remember.

This is using the Teensy v-st project on Github which adapts serial drawing commands to vector. It works, but both the hardware and software aren't very well documented and both needed some guesswork and fixes, so I wouldn't recommend it. MiSTer would be the way to go if you have one!

Looks cooler in the dark though. Going to see if I can modify the parking spot for the beam so it doesn't burn my phosphors too and figure out how to hide retrace lines.

It took me entirely too long to figure out that the unmodified CM logo SVG wasn't looking nice because the color fill is a shape made of many small triangles to fill the inside. Removing the background and generating a new SVG gave me this beauty