A blog of a variety of projects
Projects that require a significant software component.
Treasure tables are a good way of either getting through writer’s block or coming up with interesting loot during a game without the need to lay out a whole region full of treasure, but the process of rolling on a loot table is sometimes too slow to do while playing. This is a first-draft REST API in C# built on ASP.NET MVC and MySQL that provides the tabletop role-playing game treasure table experience in a way that could be incorporated into a website.
This is a simple human interface device that merges gameport joysticks and electric piano pedals to improve my performance in 6DOF flight simulators.
Last night I finished and installed a new web server laptop, replacing the little one that had been running this site for the past two years.
Two weeks ago I started a new job. It has been going very well, but I am now required to operate in a Windows environment while I am at work. I’ve tried to only run Windows sparingly in virtual machines for about 5 years, and moving from Linux-based OSes back…
This is a sweet little handheld emulator that sells on Amazon for about $30, and the developer community is significantly more responsive than the company that sells them. This week I made some changes to the keyboard input driver in a fork of the kernel. It is a really simple…
In the middle of softmodding my new/old Wii, I happily remembered that I don’t use Windows anymore. Wii game backup is very effective when used with a filesystem called Wii Backup File System (WBFS) that was invented by a very smart and productive Wii hacker codenamed Waninkoko. FAT32 filesystems have…
This was a long project, starting last December and culminating in a finished device this December. A small device is responsible for interpreting an audio signal and producing a visual display on a strand of Neopixel LEDs. Neopixel LEDs are available in a Christmas light package from several vendors, so…
After getting back into Magic: The Gathering recently, I sought a way to create a deck using software. I found several options, none of which were EXACTLY what I wanted. Something always irritated me: card filters too simple card filters too complex unable to bulk copy cards from one deck…
