There oughta be a blog with awesome projects. A collection of overcomplicated devices nobody needs. A sanctum for all the things that did not get living room clearance, but oughta be seen by fellow nerds.
My son loves marble runs, but as he became more interested in Lego than the bigger Duplo bricks, I needed a marble run for Lego. So I printed one. This is a rather simple project, but I stumbled onto an interesting physics detail that I wanted to discuss. Click the image to see the video on youtube.com. Most of you probably just want to watch the video, but if you want to dive into the physics…
UPDATE A FEW HOURS LATER: Turns out that Natalie the Nerd beat me to it by a few hours. But she did not just beat me in terms of releasing a bit earlier, but also in functionality, style and execution. I fully admit defeat in this undeclared race that every nerd with a public channel just seems to secretly have competed in. I will be forming a “Natalie beat us” support group with all the other…
Another one of my cousins got married, so it was time for another photo/video booth. This time it uses a Game Boy Camera and a Game Boy Printer. Click the image to see the video on youtube.com. The video above gives a good overview of the project. The blog entry below contains a few more technical details as well as links to source code and additional resources.
What is the easiest way to create a ROM with a slideshow of your own images for your Game Boy? How about opening a website, dragging your images into the site and hitting a generate button? That’s it. That’s what I created here. Click the image to see the video on youtube.com. Check out this rather short Youtube video to see the tool in action or just look at the top of this post to try it out…
Do you own a Sony camera? Then you probably know the pain of trying to use a phone to remotely trigger the camera. I gave up on using Wifi and the official Play Memories app for that. …or Imaging Edge or whatever it is called now. For quite a while I have been carrying a primitive IR remote, when I learned that my α6400 actually can be controlled via Bluetooth. So, I created the app that I wished…
Just a quick update on two things that happened recently without being a new projekt: I gave a talk at the 37th Chaos Communication Congress about how the GB Interceptor can reconstruct the Game Boy’s screen content by listening in on the memory bus. The recording is available at media.ccc.de. Click the image to see the video on media.ccc.de. Because some asked for the music from my recent video…
You made me create a wooden Game Boy shell. Yes, you made me do it. After I got myself a CNC machine a while back I just made a wooden Game Boy cartridge to get to know the machine, but social media wanted more. So, I made a Game Boy out of walnut wood. Click the image to see the video on youtube.com. You can see the process in the video without much explanation. If you want to learn about the…
For my cousin’s wedding I did not make a photo booth but a video booth. - With an array of DSLRs to create a bullet time effect. Click the image to see the video on youtube.com. Since this is a very visual project, you should really watch the video. This blog post contains the same info with more details, but those details are probably only relevant if you really want to recreate this project,…
I collected your questions about the GB Interceptor and made a very long video taking my time to answer them. Click the image to see the video on youtube.com. And sorry if this pops up in your RSS feed several months later. I simply forgot to add a blog entry for this and backdated it.
I present to you: The GB Interceptor. It is an adapter that goes between an unmodified Game Boy and the cartridge and offers a video stream of the game via USB. Click the image to see the video on youtube.com. The video above should give you a good overview of what it does, how it works and what its limitations are. This article here goes more into the technical details of how it works. If you are…