"Feel like a character in a William Gibson book because you're using a $10 Chinese logic analyzer"
Zachtronics not only makes great games like TIS-100 they also work up the methods for turning older tech into something wonderful. Firmly placed on the pile of Some Day. 
When we moved into our current office over two years ago I found an old electronic typewriter and immediately claimed it so that I could hack it to do something fun. I then proceeded to literally leave it in a corner, largely because I kept forgetting to bring the right sized Torx bit to our …