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It's time for this year's second Projects of the Month recap, showcasing a wide range of creativity from Cemetechians. This month featured everything from a TI-BASIC flight simulator to a calculator flame thrower. Be sure to check out the individual project threads and give them your support!

• "AI" on a TI-84 Plus CE: Classifying Handwritten Digits: KermMartian has published his CNN digit classifier to the Cemetech archives, so you can now give it a try! If you're interested to learn about the behind-the-scenes work needed to bring AI to a calculator, be sure to also check out the project's accompanying video and blog post.
  
  
• Attack of the PETSCII Robots for the TI-84 Plus CE: prime17569 has been working on a port of The 8-Bit Guy's Attack of the PETSCII Robots, a top-down action / puzzle game. They also have plans to include the game's original sound track and effects, utilizing MIDI output over USB. A beta version of the game is already available to download from the forum topic as well!
  
  
• Binary counter in tibasic: kelograph wrote a counter program which increases a ten-digit binary value by one until the maximum value is reached. The program's speed and size were both improved with help from mr womp womp.
  
  
• A Calculator Flamethrower.: TheLastMillennial built his own flamethrower, including a TI-84 Plus CE and Vernier temperature probe to ensure the device is used for educational purposes only. The temperature probe provides a way to monitor the temperature of the barrel to keep it from overheating.
  
  
• ETHDRVCE | Ethernet on the TI-84+ CE: ACagliano is looking for beta testers for a rewrite of their Ethernet driver. The rewritten version improves error handling and state tracking, along with a simpler API. They have also provided an example program for those interested in testing the library.
  
• First Fantasy: Mana Force (xLIB CSE & CE Textlib RPG): DJ Omnimaga released a new version of his RPG for the TI-84 Plus CE, making use of the Celtic CE library and greatly improving the speed of many portions of the game. This update also fixes a crash when displalying HP greater than 9999, along with some other smaller changes.
  
  
• MinecrafTI for the TI-84 Plus (MinecrafTI84): kelograph shared a TI-BASIC Minecraft clone for monochrome calculators, with gravity, three block types, and world saving / loading. Give it a try and let kelograph know what you think!
  
  
• Minesweeper for casio fx-cg: Potchkee published a version of Minesweeper for Casio fx-CG calculators, written entirely in Casio BASIC. The game includes configurable board size and more!
  
  
• Reversi (Othello) with FX & Animations – HP Prime G1/G2: komame is working on a version of Reversi for HP Prime calculators. The game features smooth and well thought out animations and is already looking quite promising.
  
  
• Shards of Grandeur PC RPG: 123outerme has published another major beta version of their RPG game. This beta adds significant amounts of gameplay, improved animations, and new music tracks. 123outerme has also added a new battle mechanic dubbed "Runes", which serve as a delayed move effect inflicted as a part of another battle move. The beta is available to download on GitHub!
  
  
• TI-81 ViewScreen modded for reading screen signals using a logic analyzer: rootboy is working on reverse engineering the TI-81 viewscreen connection with hopes of being able to read the data going to the calculator's screen with a separate device. rootboy has suggested using this as an alternative method of dumping the calculator's ROM, making use of a program which outputs the contents of the ROM to the screen and the converting the data using a Raspberry Pi.
  
• TiFS v1.3 (Texas Instruments Flight Simulator): Aeroslate published a new version of their flight simulator, which uses wireframe graphics and is written entirely in TI-BASIC. Version 1.3 adds rudimentary physics and speed, along with an optional addon for a day-night cycle.
  
  
• TInymon for TI83: Targz has announced the culmination of a five year effort to create a turn-based monster catching RPG for the TI-83. The game features between 5-8 hours of gameplay, link trading, and more. An impressive feat for the limited hardware of the TI-83, it's certainly worth giving a try!
  
  
• Train Simulator Controller: Continuing in his endeavor to create an immersive and realistic train simulator controller, KermMartian has begun to design a dashboard to house the other controller components he has worked on. With a goal of making the dashboard accurate to that of the UK Class 800, he spent time reverse engineering proprietary file formats and measuring 3D buttons to design and prototype a dashboard, finishing with a 1:10 scale prototype.
  
  
• [84+CE] TugaCE - Turtle Interpreter: merthsoft worked on a interpreter for a custom Turtle language, written in C for the TI-84 Plus CE. The program is progressing quite rapidly, and the forum topic also includes a number of quite satisfying demo screenshots to inspire your own Tuga creations.
  
  
• A utility for measuring the clock frequency of the CPU on TI-89T & V200: twisted_nematic57 released a utility for measuring the clock frequency of TI-68K calculator CPUs. The program also includes a setting for running without GUI popups, allowing it to be useful as a subprogram.
  

That sums up February's projects! As always, be sure to remember to vote for your favorite project completed this month in the poll!

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