Super Nintendo games on the Switch!

SNES games available at launch will include:

  • Super Mario Kart
  • Kirby’s Dream Course
  • Super Mario World 2: Yoshi’s Island
  • F-Zero
  • The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
  • Super Mario World
  • Star Fox
  • Stunt Race FX
  • Super Metroid
  • Kirby’s Dream Land 3
  • Pilotwings
  • Super Soccer
  • Super Tennis
  • Brawl Brothers
  • Demon’s Crest
  • Joe & Mac 2: Lost in the Tropics
  • Super E.D.F. Earth Defense Force
  • Super Puyo Puyo 2
  • Breath of Fire
  • Super Ghouls ’n Ghosts

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We tested popular cellphones for radiofrequency radiation. Now the FCC is investigating.

The Apple iPhone 7 was set to operate at full power and secured below a tub of clear liquid, specially formulated to simulate human tissue.

With the push of a button, a robotic arm swung into action, sending a pencil-thin probe dipping into the tub. For 18 minutes, it repeatedly measured the amount of radiofrequency radiation the liquid was absorbing from the cellphone.

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‘80s-Style Music Player Combines VFD Displays with Raspberry Pi Streaming

Redditor GuzziGuy misses “1980s-style HiFi systems with flashing lights, knobs, etc.” Instead of just ignoring this impulse, however, he “decided to make one that looked/worked exactly as [he] wanted.”

The device uses a Raspberry Pi 3 running Mopidy to stream both locally stored music and Internet radio. A Behringer UCA202 USB audio interface along with a TPA3116 amp are implemented to actually pump out the tunes. The UCA202 includes an audio passthrough, which can play from other audio sources, e.g. GuzziGuy’s computer.

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Circuit boards with lights in epoxy in a table

I put circuit boards in epoxy in a table, and that’s what is in this video. It has 15 LED lights, that go without electricity (yes, magic.. ;-). Learn at the end if the table was a success or a fail. A thanks goes to all the friends who donated their electronic equipment for this video. There is about 10 liters of epoxy resin in the table, which set me back around 300 euros. I bought the table second hand for 100 euros. The used LEDs and fiber optic cable were together about 20 euros.

Achieve true 3D printing with non planar slicing

This is the most interesting thing I’ve done with my 3D printer in some time. Instead of printing in a series of 2D planes stacked up to form a 3D shape (2.5D), this non planar technique creates geometry with true 3D tool paths that can eliminate the steps often seen on shallow surfaces. Based on the amazing Masters Thesis of Daniel Ahlers and the University of Hamburg, this development can be tried yourself if you are willing to put in some time to setting it up.

In this video I’ll lead you through step by step on how to setup a virtual Linux machine on your PC, compile the custom version of Slic3r and then share with you my results. The future is bright and I thank people like Daniel Ahlers and Moritz Walter for leading the way.

RetroPie – Expanding storage on your SD card.

Most RetroPie images you download wont take advantage of all the free space on your SD card, so how do you expand the partition to utilize the remaining space?
raspi-config is the option we are looking for!

This menu can either be accessed from the main menu once everything is booted.

First Navigate to the RetroPie Settings menu

From here you can access raspi-config

It is also possible to access this menu from command line and an SSH session.

For instructions on getting your RaspberryPi connected to WiFi and setting up SSH, take a look at our other Tutorials;
Configuring RetroPie to connect to WiFi with no keyboard or display.
Configuring RetroPie for SSH with no keyboard or display.

Once you are at the command prompt running the following command will load up the raspi-config menu.

sudo raspi-config

Once in the raspi-config menu, you will want to navigate to
(7) Advanced options
(A1) Expand Filesystem

This will all be pretty automatic, it will grow the file system to take up the remaining space on your SD card.
Once complete, choose OK at the reboot warning, Finish and then allow the device to reboot.

Once rebooted your Retropie setup will utilize all available space on your SD card for ROMs and other data!