There are a lot of online repositories to download video game ROM images. Whether it’s from a website or BitTorrent, you end up with a collection of binary files, each file corresponding to the code stored on a cartridge or an arcade machine’s internal chips, which you can then load into a console or arcade … Continue reading Reading Atari Cartridges with an Arduino
Category: Projects
On custom laptop clings
Recently I found myself in the position to say “my laptop, well, my other laptop.” You see, at work I shifted around my development environment. I write embedded Linux code, I’ve worked at a Linux desktop for the past few jobs — for over a decade. My personal laptop has been a Mac for as long … Continue reading On custom laptop clings
Building a RetroPie console emulator
A few weeks ago I put together a RetroPie. A RetroPie is a small — smaller than a pack of cigarettes, smaller than a game controller — gaming system that emulates all of the classic consoles. There are no cartridges, only files on disk. There are disk images of each and every cartridge, with a … Continue reading Building a RetroPie console emulator
My work, on display at NAB
It’s not unusual for a product or service that I played some small part in designing and building to appear at an industry trade show, whether that’s CES or NAB or whathaveyou. But this year, a device in which I was a lot more integral in the hands-on design and manufacture appeared. I not only designed a … Continue reading My work, on display at NAB
Switch pinout
In the same “note to future self” vein as my recent hexagon math blog post, I’m writing this today more as a note to myself than an informative or fun blog post for the regular reader. With increasing frequency, I have started working with these little through-hole micro switches: As you can see, there are four pins, … Continue reading Switch pinout
Halloween goggles
Last Halloween I built some animated light-up steampunk/mad-scientist goggles. This year, I finally got around to documenting the project.
On accurately measuring 2oz
I ran into an unexpected surprise when using labware to measure mixed drinks.
Designing a fair 3-sided coin
The board game Betrayal at House on the Hill uses “3-sided dice.” A friend dropped a reference to a “3-sided coin.” I thought I’d try mathing out the dimensions on my own.
Building light-up R2D2 mouse ears (May the Fourth)
I basically grew up at Disneyland. As a kid, my family lived about 20 minutes away and we’d get to go twice a year: once on my birthday and once on my sister’s. In my 20s, I had an annual pass and would go on the weekends, or just pop by for an hour after work … Continue reading Building light-up R2D2 mouse ears (May the Fourth)
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Introducing the Trinket Platter [Update]
I needed a way to mount a Trinket and power jack, so I designed and printed one.