Gaming

An overview of the problem light guns have with the modern television set, and a couple of ways to overcome it.

Build your own Raspberry Pi retro gaming rig inside an original Nintendo cartridge for maximum portability and awesomeness. 🙂 This is the official build video for the first ever PiCart guide!

Dave is a big fan of freeform soldering styles and made a tiny skeleton handheld. As the wise Ben Heckendorn said years before, Dave too tells everyone to collect spare LED legs. “Don’t throw them away, as they might come in handy one day!” – or they get stuck in your maglock sockets. Here we need them to connect an Attiny85 with some buttons and an I2C display.

Normally, Google showing up to the Game Developers Conference isn’t a huge deal. The company does this pretty much every year—Android smartphones and Google Play are a pretty big gaming platform, after all—and it shows up with livestreams and blog posts and all the usual festivities. This year, though, is different. Google has been sending out vague teasers since last month for a GDC event, but as the date approaches, the company has been dropping more and more hints of exactly what it is announcing: Google is launching video game hardware for the Project Stream platform.

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Virtual Reality Oasis bought a PC Virtual Reality headset from Walmart! This headset boasts dual low latency LCD 1440×1440 displays which is higher resolution than Oculus Rift, but is it any good… You can check out the Direkt-Tek Walmart VR headsets here; http://direkt-tek.com/

Moving older retro gaming hardware to today’s standards with HDMI seems to be a big focus for a lot of people now with newer TVs seemingly eliminating standard composite ports more and more. Today we are taking a look at the Ultra HDMI mod for the Nintendo 64. This is an internal mod that requires soldering to make it work and the results are amazing.

Blog post with links n’ stuff (including the giveaway) – http://www.sudomod.com/mintypi-v3-build-guide/