(6/58) TTY/SLIP/PPP: Online with Book 8088 v2 over iPhone via ESP32 RS232 Serial to WiFi bridge
Channel: Alone in the Kitchen — by Nino Ivanov
Date: 2024-04-07

How the Book 8088 v2 modern #DOS laptop can go online through an #iPhone 15's hotspot via iOS' iSH shell environment and surf the BBC with Links or Lynx using an ESP32 microcontroller board, which on the one hand connects to a #Telnet server running on port 8088 on the iPhone 15 and on the other hand connects to the RS232 serial port of the #Book8088 v2, serving thus as a serial to wireless bridge between the MS-DOS computer and the smartphone. Source code for the ESP32, for the Arduino IDE (GPL Affero v. 3): https://github.com/KedalionDaimon/Book8088ESP32SerialWifiBridge