{"id":106,"date":"2019-11-25T19:48:49","date_gmt":"2019-11-25T19:48:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/technobabble.us.to\/?page_id=106"},"modified":"2020-12-17T05:25:40","modified_gmt":"2020-12-17T05:25:40","slug":"ti-83-cable-hack","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/technobabble.us.to\/?page_id=106","title":{"rendered":"TI-83 Cable Hack"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I needed to program my TI-83 for math class while I was attending college.&nbsp; Texas Instruments was nice enough to provide a \u201ctransfer cable\u201d for 2 calculators but they wanted $20 for one that interfaced with the computer.&nbsp; I cut their cable in half and built 2 \u201cprogrammer cables\u201d with just a few resistors, transistors, and some hot-glue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"https:\/\/technobabble.us.to\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/TI-83_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/technobabble.us.to\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/TI-83_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"107\" class=\"wp-image-107\" srcset=\"https:\/\/technobabble.us.to\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/TI-83_1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/technobabble.us.to\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/TI-83_1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/technobabble.us.to\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/TI-83_1-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">Too cheap to buy a cable so I hacked my own together with spare parts.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"https:\/\/technobabble.us.to\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/TI-83-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/technobabble.us.to\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/TI-83-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"108\" class=\"wp-image-108\" srcset=\"https:\/\/technobabble.us.to\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/TI-83-2.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/technobabble.us.to\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/TI-83-2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/technobabble.us.to\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/TI-83-2-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">My TI-83 Homebrew cable. I cut the provided transfer cable in half to make 2 cables to load software from my computer.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-3 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"https:\/\/technobabble.us.to\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/TI-83-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/technobabble.us.to\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/TI-83-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"109\" class=\"wp-image-109\" srcset=\"https:\/\/technobabble.us.to\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/TI-83-3.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/technobabble.us.to\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/TI-83-3-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/technobabble.us.to\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/TI-83-3-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">some resistors, a transistor and more hot-glue<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I needed to program my TI-83 for math class while I was attending college.&nbsp; Texas Instruments was nice enough to provide a \u201ctransfer cable\u201d for 2 calculators but they wanted $20 for one that interfaced with the computer.&nbsp; I cut &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/technobabble.us.to\/?page_id=106\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":24,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-106","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technobabble.us.to\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technobabble.us.to\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technobabble.us.to\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technobabble.us.to\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technobabble.us.to\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=106"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/technobabble.us.to\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":631,"href":"https:\/\/technobabble.us.to\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/106\/revisions\/631"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technobabble.us.to\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technobabble.us.to\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}