Baszucki: Built custom Apple II controllers using Radio Shack potentiometers
David Baszucki · Roblox: David Baszucki · Aug 15, 2022 · at 4:41
Roblox founder David Baszucki discusses his childhood electronics tinkering and self-taught programming before the internet era.
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“I built asteroid type games, and there was a way to in a primitive way, go to Radio Shack and buy these knob potentiometers and wire them up to the Apple II and build a primitive game controller, and I can remember having my siblings come down and play this cheesy Space Invader game I made, but have these, you know, knobby controllers.”
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