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RoGeorge:
It happened that I've watched again a film from when I was a kid, and found out it had a sequel I didn't know.  Thought might be nice to have a list of movies with plots close to electronic tinkering.

Short Circuit (1986)


Short Circuit 2 (1988)

 
Please add to the list if you know any titles.   :D

DrG:
I claim PITV (Pandemic-Induced Television Viewing), but I recently watched the complete series of Sliders (1995-2000) https://en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sliders .

What distinguished this show, IMO, was how great the potential they had and how horribly they failed. While not based on circuitry, the "Timer" was the single piece of equipment that allowed them to hop dimensions by opening a "vortex".

The original was a modified Motorola phone to which a few 7 segment LEDS were added (I didn't check but, apparently the prop department did add some circuitry to randomly light the segments).

see https://sliders.fandom.com/wiki/Timer


Of course, "fans" have rebuilt it:


Which somehow makes me feel a little better about every stupid circuit that I ever managed to cobble together for no good reason. :)

JohnnyMalaria:





DrG:

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Yeah. his IMSAI 8080


and I read that a HP 9845C was used for the game graphic screens.

and the WOPR was based on some old pictures of tabulating machines https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WarGames

RoGeorge:
Apparently there also were some remakes/sequels for the "Electronic Dog" (that's how it was translated here back then, the original title was CHOMPS).

C.H.O.M.P.S. (1979)


Robo-Dog (2015)


Robo-Dog: Airborne (2017)

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