A few days ago I got a GBxCart from InsideGadgets. It is a nice little device that I have used to rip all of my old Gameboy games so I can play them in an emulator. It came as a bare PCB, but was designed to match the footprint of…
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Pegboards for home office
My office is a small desk against a window in between two cabinets, so I 3D-printed some brackets to hang the pegboard from the cabinets, as well as a couple useful things to hang on them.
Steam Deck stand with removable dock
I wanted a Steam Deck stand but couldn’t find any that met all of my requirements, so I designed my own. This stand holds the system at a 10 degree angle and has a replaceable USB-C dock mounting bracket.
Fixing a jammed PS4 disc drive
When I went to load a game for the first time in this PS4, the slot drive blocked my disc. This drive has a little wall that it lifts up so that you don’t accidentally stick a disc in while the disc in the drive is spinning, but this drive had a bit of an underbite. That wall was jammed above its intended position and was locking the rest of the mechanism.
6DOF flight simulator controls with pedals
This is a simple human interface device that merges gameport joysticks and electric piano pedals to improve my performance in 6DOF flight simulators.
Stand for Nintendo Switch
I spent some time recently looking for a simple stand for the Nintendo Switch. When I didn’t find what I wanted, I went ahead and made one. I wanted something that would meet these requirements: You can view and download my design here. Most free designs for Switch stands do…
BittBoy PocketGo keymap update
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…