26 Feb 2010

The Terminalscope is a full, bidirectional serial terminal

The Terminalscope is a full, bidirectional serial terminal that uses a PS/2 keyboard for input and displays 54x24-character output on an oscilloscope or XY display. It can be connected to a PC via USB-to-TTL adapter or directly to another microcontroller.

Features include:

  • 7-bit ASCII character set plus box-drawing characters
  • Flicker-free 60Hz picture
  • Most ANSI/VT100 escape sequences interpreted
  • Reverse video attribute supported
  • All your favorite ncurses terminal programs (vi, nano, top, links, mc, irssi, etc.) display fine
  • Graphical configuration menu
  • Selectable baud rate (2400-38400), data bits, parity, and stop bits
  • Two configuration profiles (stored in EEPROM) quickly selectable with an external switch