An easily constructed USB-powered pulse oximeter device that can be built for around $25 and features an OLED display.
Month: April 2020
Help FIGHT COVID-19 With Your RaspberryPi With Rosetta@home
In this video, I show you how you can help fight the Corona Virus / COVID-19 using a Raspberry Pi by installing and running Rosetta@home! Rosetta@home is used to predict the structure of proteins important to the disease as well as to produce new, stable mini-proteins to be used as potential therapeutics and diagnostics. Basically, we are donating our Raspberry Pi’s CPU cycles / Power to help aid in the fight! It’s like Folding@Home but it works on the Raspberry pi.
Open Source Pandemic Ventilator with RaspberryPi
Pandemic Ventilator built with a simple Raspberry Pi and Arduino & off the shelve parts. This is the second version. A team of healthcare professionals is already testing this ventilator.
I ported Heart of Darkness to the Original Xbox | MVG
Bored during lockdown – Lets port some stuff
RaspberryPi 4 Mini Desktop Case – Ice Tower Cooler + Secondary PCB Cooling Fan
This is a case I designed for the Raspberry Pi 4 with the Ice Tower Cooler by 52Pi.
I designed this during the coronavirus quarantine and in some ways influenced by this ongoing experience.
For one, there’s potentially hours of experimentation potential as there are different fan options to test… if you’re stuck at home bored with nothing to and a spare Raspberry Pi and some fans sitting around.
Furthermore, since supply shipments are sketchy, I kept the 3D printer filament usage to a minimum, thinned parts wherever possible, provided opportunities to fabricate some parts out of other household materials (like possibly cardboard for the top and bottom panels which are not structural and otherwise featureless).
Read more… (and download the STL)
NEC Core Grafx Mini by Konami Unboxing
In this video we will be sharing a quick unboxing of the highly anticipated Core Grafx Mini by Konami that Slappy McPhee had directly shipped to him from Japan.
Roland SC-55ST: $400 MIDI Music Powerhouse from 1993
When it comes 90s PC game MIDI soundtracks, you can’t really go wrong with a Roland Sound Canvas. And this lovely ST version of the SC-55 is a downright delightful choice! All those excellent SC sound samples in a clean, simplified package.
How To Run N64 Games In 4K Or 1080P On PC Using RetroArch!
Have you ever wanted to Play N64 games in 4k or 1080P? Well in this video I show you how to run your favoite N64 games Upscaled to 4K,1080P or 720 on your PC using RetroArch and a Core called Mupen64Plus-Next. This will also work if you want to run these games at 16.9 aspect ration.
How Graphics worked on the Nintendo Game Boy Color | MVG
In 1998 Nintendo released the Game Boy Color, an upgrade to the original DMG Game Boy. The Game Boy Color (GBC) was fully backward compatible with the Game Boy but came with some improvements to the original architecture. In this episode we take a look at the Graphics subsystem of the GBC and discover some of the technical achievements developers were able to pull off.
Can you replace your C64 PLA for under $3?
Bad PLA chips (MOS 906114-01) are a super common problem for the “breadbin” Commodore 64 machines. There are replacements around but they aren’t that cheap. How about one you can build yourself at home for under $3?
The GAL-PLA has been tested on longboard PCB 326298, 250407, 250425 and the SX64 with no compatibility issues or modifications required. Tested with Super Zaxxon, 1541 Ultimate II and Easy Flash 3 with no issues on both NTSC and PAL machines.