# ti83-link: reconstructing TI-83 Plus link-port transfers

> ti83-link reconstructs TI-83 Plus link-port transfers using Raspberry Pi GPIO and Python. It sends and receives calculator variables, installs Flash applications, inspects TI file containers and documents packet handshakes and token values checked against hardware.

- Type: Case study
- Targets: Protocol
- Category: Independent reconstruction cases
- Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
- Sources reviewed: 2026-11-06
- Added to the catalog: 2026-11-08
- Original resource: <https://github.com/tiiow-fedora/ti83-link>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/tiiow-fedora/ti83-link/blob/b3351fde8f4ee9030f855ee74acffc8393fa13be/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/ti83-link-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/ti83-link-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/ti83-link-case/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- **Prerequisites:** A TI-83 Plus and Raspberry Pi GPIO connection with Python and python3-lgpio.
- **Testing evidence:** The author reports testing one TI-83 Plus OS 1.19 setup with a Raspberry Pi 4; other hardware remains unverified.
- **Limits:** OS image transfer is deliberately unimplemented.
- **License:** MIT license.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/tiiow-fedora/ti83-link/blob/b3351fde8f4ee9030f855ee74acffc8393fa13be/README.md>

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