Month: October 2021

FPGA Boards Add VGA and HDMI Interfaces to the Original Game Boy

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The classic Game Boy remains a firm favorite in the realm of retrocomputing. Revolutionary as it was at the time, by today’s standards its display is rather primitive, with no backlight and a usable area measuring only 47 mm x 44 mm. [Martoni] figured out a way to solve this, by developing GbVGA and GbHdmi, two projects that enable the Game Boy to connect to an external monitor. This way, you can play Super Mario Land without straining your eyes, and we can also image potential uses for those who stream their gameplay online.

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Thingiverse Data Leak Affects 228,000 Subscribers

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Thingiverse, a website dedicated to sharing user-created digital design files, has reportedly leaked a 36GB backup file that contains 228,000 unique email addresses and other personally identifiable information, confirms Troy Hunt, creator of the Have I Been Pwned data breach notification service, citing the circulation of this data set on a popular hacking forum.

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Build your own Arduino Compatible Board

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Do you dominate the Arduino technology? If you do not dominate it is probably because it is dominating you.

Knowing Arduino is the first step for you to create various types of technologies, so the first step is for you to master the full operation of an Arduino board.

In this Instructables you will learn step by step to master the complete circuitry of an Arduino compatible board.

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Print Infinitely-Long Parts on the New Infinity3D Belt 3D Printer

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Belt 3D printers are just now starting to hit the market and Infinity3D is a new option with an extra trick up its sleeve.

Most 3D printers’ build volume is a function of their size. To get a bigger bed, you need longer X and Y axes rails. To print taller parts, you need longer Z axis rails. There are exceptions, such as SCARA robots equipped with extruders, but even those have limits. Belt printers are unique in that they can print parts of infinite lengths — at least in one axis. Such printers are just now starting to hit the market and Infinity3D is a new option with an extra trick up its sleeve.

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PicoLight – Minimalist Light for Product Shots

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PicoLight is a minimalist adjustable light for low-light photography, based on the Raspberry Pi Pico.

One of the activities I really enjoy while working on a new project is documenting it. I love getting creative while taking pictures of the process and of the final products. A thing that has been really handy in this process is an adjustable studio light, which I use to add a bit of colour to the background (that’s why most of the pictures in these tutorials are purple hehe).

PicoLight is a smaller version of a classic studio light that is useful for playing with colours in low-light shots or for coloured shadows photography.

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Dave Plummer’s M5StickC Audio Spectrum Analyzer Runs at a Smooth 30 Frames Per Second

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Simple yet colorful project makes full use of the ESP32’s processing power, that bright display, and the on-board microphone.

Former Microsoft programmer and father of the Windows Task Manager Dave Plummer has been looking into embedded projects of late, turning the M5StickC into a colorful live-view audio spectrum analyzer — running at 30 frames a second.

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