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3D Printed PiGRRL - Raspberry Pi Gameboy
coop0030 (263345) writes "Celebrate the 25th anniversary of the classic gaming device, Game Boy, by building your own with 3d printing and DIY electronics. This project uses a Raspberry Pi and TFT touch screen to make an epic DIY Game Girl. The 3d printed enclosure houses all of the components and can be printed in your favorite color. It's controlled with SNES gaming controller components, reusing the printed circuit board, buttons and elastomers. The 3D files can be found on Thingiverse, and a video of the finished product is provided as well."
>Game boy
>3D shell for Raspberry Pi to run a emulator
Please don't mix the too together.
There's no shortage of those yet but they're really nice controllers as-is, they have a zillion purposes without being cannibalized. And these days you can buy controller parts for a song, so it would be nice to see the design adapted to use some readily available controller replacement parts instead. It would cost only a few bucks more, even assuming a free SNES controller.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
Wonder how long until the "increasingly out of touch with the internet generation" Nintendo send a take down request for unauthorised use of the Game Boy (TM) likeness and encouraging users to download roms
political correctness + blatant, unthinking piracy = clickbait
Fair enough. I will then cancel my childish comment.
Then don't pirate Mario games. Instead, download homebrew ROMs, some of which are free open source software.
A criticism is not necessarily a troll.
Dude, do you feel your sexuality is threatened or somehow "undefined"? by the word grrrl? We just don't get your hostility.
Just as 'we' don't get yours.
To dumb to come up with original ideas.
It makes sense though, it is a whole lot easier to ride the wake of previous success.
Pathetic.
Epic AC fight here, tickets $5.
Dude are you gonna take that from him?
One of the ways that copyrights and patents are intended "to promote the progress of science and useful arts" is by keeping people from getting stuck in a local optimum of ideas. If you make an idea different enough not to infringe, it might just hit a higher local maximum.
The tutorial shows cutting a PCB from a SNES controller into three parts.
When cutting PCBs (and other things of fiberglass), it is important not to inhale the dust - in the worst case, fiberglass dust can cause lung cancer.
The tutorial recommends a dust mask, but does not mention how important it is.
I always use a dust mask and a vacuum cleaner with HEPA filter running with the nozzle right next to the workpiece when I cut PCBs.
Also, don't do it where you live, and do collect the dust that settles.
"We mustn't be caught by surprise by our own advancing technology" -- Aldous Huxley
We aren't dudes, dummy. Just GRRRLs having a few drinks and trolling the internet for fucktard misogynists. We think we found one or two here. PS - we get have the tix sales, okay.
The walkthrough with pictures was interesting, but I am a bit let down. I expected it to be a custom homemade GameBoy, not simply a portable game emulation/pirating computer. Also, grrl? Really? That stopped being 'cool' around the time xXSepherothCloudXx stopped being 'cool'.
$120 + to make something that doesn't play game boy games but looks like a gameboy
when you could buy a much more capable 7 inch tablet
https://www.google.com/search?...|7%247,vw:l,p_ord:p&tbm=shop&ei=i6G4U4XNGcedyATo_4GoAg&ved=0CKQEELsNKAI
for as little as $30 ?
Click it then go to shopping and sort by price low to high
Actually I was trolling for the huge slashdot misandrist crowd, here, the ones that pass themselves off as SJWs.
Why are you speaking for me? What would possess you to impersonate me?
It doesn't make me a misogynist to think a term is stupid. It's just a coincidence that it's primarily used by women. There are plenty of other self-applied labels that are masculine or gender neutral that I think are fucking terrible abominations on the English language.
Anyway, the label itself comes from a lack of self assuredness and a belief that one has to "prove themselves worthy" to the patriarchy. It's a woman trying to simultaneously "hang with the boys" while simultaneously asserting their femininity. It comes from a place of supreme insecurity. Rather than just be herself, a woman using this term is bending herself to fit into a mold created by men. Plus, it's frequently a use of the diminutive "girl" to refer to adult women.
But I've clearly thought this argument through more than you have. Just because I used the threat of violence as a metaphor for my distaste doesn't mean I haven't carefully considered my opinion, or that I'm not coming at it from a supremely feminist perspective.
That depends on how expensive and how bulky the clip-on Bluetooth game controller is. Not a lot of classic console games work well with just an on-screen gamepad. Or has there been some sort of recent innovation in touch input processing that makes games like Mega Man and Castlevania, which need precision movement, jumping, and attacking controls, practical with just a flat sheet of glass?
Underpowered? The Gameboy had a 4.19MHz Z80-like chip. You could happily emulate it on a 66MHz 486 without taxing the host. The ARM11 in the RPi is massively overpowered for this use! I don't really understand what the feminism you're seeing here is.
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Plugging premade boards into premade boards is not DIY electronics, otherwise my entire computer is DIY and yes I soldered a power connector onto one of the fans
You can get clone controllers that are made the same, here.
Twinstiq, game news
SON OF A BITCH! I had a rather large post and clicked "Options" to see what was in there, I saved, and the page refreshed, way to fucking go Slashdot... Anyway -___-
I'm totally gonna use one of my RPis to make a portable gaming computer, I'll probably even make one for my cousin as a birthday or Christmas present so he can enjoy the old games as well. I haven't seen any of the links yet, but I'll probably include a reader if possible*, find something that can interface with the GBA link cable and wireless adapter, and get a high capacity battery so I can play for at least a week on a charge. I wonder if the RPi can handle N64 or PS1/2 games...
* I'll probably rip most of them so I don't need to carry them, hopefully I can get the saves as well.
Well as the other half of the population, males, I'll start calling other males "superior gender". Since I don't need that other half the population's blessing, this will be A OK.
Dude, do you feel your sexuality is threatened or somehow "undefined"? by the word grrrl?
No more so than I do about any other "stupid" word. Including, but not limited to:
-Bling
-Selfie
Now, get off my lawn.