Hnefatafl, Viking Chess for Game Boy
On The Royal Game of Ur , the link cable nearly broke me. It was by far the hardest feature of that project, burning through most of $50 in API...
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Creating Cheats for my Own Game Boy Game
While the computer games I played in my childhood often came with cheat codes baked into the game that allowed you to pass parts where you got stuck, for handhelds...
Claude Design to revamp two projects
Design has always been my bottleneck. I usually have a fairly clear idea of what I want, but turning that into a consistent interface is where I get stuck. For...
Revisiting a 20-Year-Old NDS Project with AI
Almost twenty years ago, during my PhD in bioinformatics, I needed to brush up on C++. Our lab was doing comparative genomics, studying how genomes evolve at the structural level,...
The Royal Game Boy of Ur
Years ago, a documentary on “The Royal Game of Ur” , one of the oldest known board games, nearly 5,000 years old, instantly piqued my interest. When I later heard...
Python to Rust: Porting My Genetic Art Algorithm
One of the first posts on this blog showed how to implement a genetic algorithm in Python . Revisiting that project, I realized it is an ideal candidate to port...
Using my Kindle PW3 as a Dashboard for Home Assistant
An old Kindle, once jailbroken and running KUAL, can be repurposed as a dashboard for just about anything. I’ve actually done this before - though right now, I...
Building a Custom Deej Volume Mixer with an RP2040 Pro Micro
Looking for a DIY hardware volume mixer to control individual app volumes effortlessly? Whether you’re a gamer, streamer, or audio enthusiast, manually adjusting software volume sliders can be frustrating. That’s...
Building a custom GMT watch
With several custom watches under my belt, I felt ready to tackle a more advanced build. This project combines three new elements: building a GMT watch using the NH34...
DIY mechanical watches on a budget
I recently embarked on a watch-building journey, inspired by a YouTube video from Elliot Coll , where he demonstrated how to build custom watches using affordable parts . With the...