Month: April 2019

PinkyPi Giveaway!

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Be sure to check out our Web Store to buy PinkyPi cases and DIY Kits!

Enter to win your very own PinkyPi Micro Handheld Game Console!

Official Rules:

Contest Ends May 31st 2019 – Winner will be selected and announced June 1st 2019.
Winner will be contacted via Email on their registered Email address from our message forums. They will have 1 week (June 8th) to reply and provide a valid shipping address in the Contiguous United States. If they fail to do so, a new winner will be selected June 9th 2019 and the process will repeat.
Shipping is free.

Only 1 entry per person is allowed.
You must be a resident of the Contiguous United States.
You must be 18 or older to enter.

To Enter:

Like / Share this post / page or Tweet.
Follow us on Instagram, YouTube and or Twitter (Links below).
Join our message forums, and comment on the PinkyPi Giveaway thread on our forums, adding where you followed and shared this.
A random post will be selected from the Forum posts, validated you are following/subscribed and have shared our post.

Product Details:

PinkyPi Handheld Game Console, with NES Themed case.
Raspberry Pi Zero W
Waveshare 1.3inch LCD Display hat (240×240)
500mAh battery
32GB MicroSD Card flashed with the PinkPi prebuilt image version 1.0
NO ROMS are included, this is a RetroPie 4.4 based image with graphics drivers/button mapping and themes configured.
Again, NO ROMS are included on this image/device! Do not ask us for ROMs or games, we do not and will not provide these.


**We ship only to the Contiguous United States, shipping will be free to the Winner. Outside of the Continental United States is not eligible for this contest.
No warranty and or hardware guarantee is provided for this item, components are very small and fragile.
This item is not eligible for return,refund or exchange, all transactions are final.
The joystick is very fragile, because of this the joystick top will be shipped detached, and the recipient must gently press fit it into place.

Machine Learning Is Giving Retro Games Cutting-Edge Graphics

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Your favorite classic video games are getting a killer makeover. But it’s not big-name game developers making the improvements: it’s independent modders.

Most game updates require teams of designers and coders working for months or even years, according to a fascinating new feature in The Verge, but now many are using machine learning to expedite the process — allowing a single highly-motivated modder to refurbish a game in just a few weeks.

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Windows 10: Microsoft lists the processors you’ll need for the May 2019 Update

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Microsoft has updated its minimum processor requirements for the next major feature release of Windows 10, version 1903 or the May 2019 Update.

The biggest news from the freshly updated list of CPUs rated as “requirements” for Windows 10 1903 Semi-Annual Channel (SAC) — SAC being ready for businesses to deploy  — is that it’s exactly the same as the list for Windows 10 version 1809. 

Windows 10 1809, of course, is the much-delayed version of Windows 10 that limped out after the infamous data destruction bug and a ZIP data loss glitch were discovered. That’s why Windows 10 1903 is now, for the first time, sitting with Release Preview testers for an extra round of checksbefore being released to general users in late May, with the exception of IT pros who can get it via MSDN as of April 18.  

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Turning NES games 3D – 3DNes is really cool, but flawed

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Ever wondered what your favourite NES games would look like in futuristic 3D? Well wonder no more because the crazy minds at Geod Studio have just released 3DNES a program that, with a little bit of work, can 3Dify your NES roms! 3DNES isn’t without it’s problems though so check out this video to find out how it works and what it looks like, oh and if you fancy downloading it for yourself, click on this link for the itch.io download page:

Raspberry Pi Higher CPU Speed Extended Period of Time Raise Thermal Throttle Limit Pi 3B+ or 3A+

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In this video, ETA Prime shows you how to raise the Thermal Throttle limit on the Raspberry Pi 3B plus or Raspberry Pi 3A+ by modifying the Soft Temp Limit. This will increase the time our Pi’s Cpu can run at its max Base frequency for much longer therefore increasing performance in the long run.