Have you seen the ArduBoy? This thing is really cool! A thin tiny game system. Based on Arduino and programmed via the Arduino IDE. There are quite a few games developed for it. And a lot of them are really great fun. The software running these is open source and easily modified. Given that I want to build my own stuff I decided to take a stab at getting the system to run on the arduino compatible esp8266.
This is a project I played around with for a long time. With the release of the PI zero I wanted to build a handheld based on it. At the time I was thinking I should just use the stuff I had on hand and figure out a cheap easy way to build out this console. Well that didn't quite turn out to be true. This was not an easy build at all.
I love to go to the beach and find little beautiful stones known as agates. They are pretty awesome. I'm always amazed by the fact that you can find them among the other beach rocks that wash up. These little gems are going to be the objects of future neat little projects. But when you find them they are pretty dull and tarnished after they dry. The trick is to polish them up. But to do this I needed a rock tumbler. And being as I am, I didn't want to buy one, they are expensive anyways... So looked around online for ideas how to build one.
This was a fun project I worked on for a company event. There is a bunch of detail about how it was done and what went into it on the blog post I made for their website.
https://www.uncorkedstudios.com/blog/the-makings-of-a-horse-race/
https://www.uncorkedstudios.com/blog/the-makings-of-an-in-office-horse-race-part-2/
Mmmmm some amazing cooked meats... I love cooking and food. and Cooking food. I learned of this cooking technique known and sous vide. This involves placing food in a vacuum bag and floating in hot water set to the exact temperature you want it to cook to. Resulting in perfectly cooked product every time. It's a pretty amazing technique but requires a system for tracking the temperature of the water and adjusting it as needed to keep it there.
The 80s and 90s seen some of the greatest video games systems ever made. And having grown up through that time and not being able to afford one of these systems, I missed out on some great games. Now these days there are amazing programs out there that let you emulate these old systems and play these incredible games. Also there are some hardware devices that let you convert the original controllers to usb for use with these emulators. Now its cool that you could have your computer setup and play these wonders. But that doesnt feel the same to me.
I love arcade cabinets. There is something about this towering device made of pressed wood and wires. Having grown up in the 80s going to the arcade was a huge point of excitement. I still really enjoy playing arcade cabinets. So when we were looking for fun things to add to our office I suggested the arcade machine. The people I worked for generously agreed that we should have a cabinet. I started to research what it would take to do so. I didn't want to just purchase a pre build mame X games in one machine.
I had just got my 3d printer. And was starting to learn about how to make things with this modern marvel. Why not make a company logo keychain for the guys I worked for. They loved them and asked me to make one for everyone. We were about to move to a new office and it would be a cool gift to give everyone of these with the new office fob attached to it. I think they turned out pretty good.
Later on I made more with a nfc sticker inside them. These were for use with the foosball table upgrade I did.
