Category: General

Yes, my very own Rockfall will soon be in the iPhone Appstore. If you have firmware 2.0, check it out.

Then I just saw his arm….

It was one of those moments, just like in the movie when they see the arm in a jar. Its quite amazing.

Continue reading If the Terminator was real

Another great game, is Tempest. A classic vector arcade game. I love retro arcade cabs, but have no room for them.

I decided to build a mini arcade. Continue reading Mini Tempest Cabinet

For reasons I won’t go into (future projects) I needed a PS/2 Mouse driver. That is, I didn’t want to make a mouse, but read input from a mouse. There didn’t seem to be much on the net about this. Lots of code for emulating a mouse, and links to the same PS/2 Protocol guide.

Continue reading PIC based PS/2 Mouse Driver

I wanted a sideshow (esque) screen. I like the text LCDs that modders put on cases, but wanted more. Full video seemed pointless and overkill. I wanted just enough to show usefull info, and actualy add something over a second monitor or Text LCD.

Continue reading Wonderfull Wireless Widget

Ok, Inspired by many POV projects on the net I started to build one. Ive always loved them anyway. My first version was a simple 8 led wand. Just wave it and get writing. Nice, but very boring and very done before.

At this point I found the led Globes that were doing the rounds, Makerfair, wired nextfest etc all had them. They look amazing. Now i’m by no means a profesionaly, but I decided to build one.

Continue reading LED P.O.V. Globe

There have been lots of reports about the iPod touch not rotating correctly from landscape to portrait or back. I think I know why.

Continue reading Rotate bug in iPod Touch

Check out my page here for full details, but ive used 2 LCDs and an old Tomytronic 3D to make a full stereo image 3D game from a pic.

Wandering around HK bored, I stumbled apon a shop selling an array of solar cells, I picked up a fairly large one for $40 hk and connected it up to my pic+3310lcd project. Bam, up it comes. Im going to put in a bit of power regulation and a cap to smooth things out, but the solar panel easily generates enough power for the large PIC 18LF2520 and the Nokia 3310 LCD.

Now I can play with it endlessly without worrying about destroying the environment with used CR2032 cells…

It seems that old computers don’t die, they just keep getting upgraded.

I do think spending 3 years building your own interface card to add USB, Bluetooth and CF to an Apple2 is pushing it a bit, but its amazing none the less.
Check out this Link to see the most astounding retro project i’ve seen in years.