Building a ‘magic magnetic theater’ from a 1979 HP pen plotter driven by an RPi3. The pen here replaced by an electromagnet. Can track and move various objects that are placed on the (eventual) stage
Built a sound box so our dog could tell us stuff. Not sure it’s the best idea.
We built a box so our dog could talk to us. Not so sure it was the best idea, but we’ll see…
Testing out a Raspberry Pi and LCD combo for a future handheld build using Sega’s Golden Axe.
Atari Centipede on my Freeplay CM-2. This is a Retropie emulator kit that is stuffed into a GBA case. Takes full advantage of the small form factor of the RPI CM-2 to fit in such a thin case.
Most of this project involved carving, cutting, and otherwise modifying a Nintendo Game Boy Advance case to fit this HW. Kind of like stuffing a Corvette engine in a VW bug. The result is one of the nicest RPI handhelds I’ve tried. Runs thousands of games on dozens of platforms, from 70s arcade all the way up through N64. All with the familiar, well designed GBA form-factor.
First computer I built in the 1970s only had a few LED lights, but there was such a sense of satisfaction when you wrote a program and they actually blinked!
40+ years later, it’s still magical for me when I repeat this using an Arduino or Raspberry Pi.
Clockwork Pi build in progress!
My growing Retropie collection. I think I may have a problem.. (clockwise from top: PIGrrl 2, Raspberry Pi 3B+, Freeplaytech CM3)
Started work on my Freeplaytech CM3 retropie. This involves a lot of modding of a Game Boy Advance shell to fit new buttons, the larger LCD and the Raspberry Pi compute module 3. (Luckily, the zillions of games I’m going to put on it don’t take up any additional space!)
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