Those looking for a single-board computer (SBC) will soon have a new option. While the Raspberry Pi is very likely the name that comes to mind when you hear SBC, FriendlyElec is coming out with the NanoPi R2S, a SBC detailed this month that features more Ethernet ports than the Raspberry Pi 4.
It’s something almost every Raspberry Pi fan has asked at one time or another: Can it run Windows? Microsoft offers an official build of Windows 10 IoT for the Raspberry Pi, but that OS is just for building maker projects and doesn’t have the ability to run regular apps or the traditional Windows GUI (graphical user interface). However, there’s a way to make a Raspberry Pi 3 / 3B / 3B+ boot into a full version of Windows 10 Professional that can even run win32 apps.
A recent discovery from the N64 Super Mario 64 De-Compilation Project appears to show that Super Mario 64 USA release for the Nintendo 64 was not optimized and was released as a debug version. However things are not that cut and dry. In this episode we take a deep dive in to what went on with development of Nintendo 64 games in 1996 and how this theory may not be accurate.
We’ve got work to do on this ’80s retro arcade game! Adding high score saving, improving and customizing the coin door, upgrading the coin mechs, making a new operation sheet, applying new stickers, and even trying out Super Missile Attack.
In this episode we discuss the important of game preservation and 3 methods of how to get data off an original Xbox Devkit hard drive.
In this video we will have a closer look at a commercial LIDAR sensor for hobbyists. We will find out how the sensor manages to measure the distance to objects placed all around it and how we can use this data with a computer and an Arduino. At the end I will then create a small robot which uses the LIDAR system to “crudely” navigate through a room. Let’s get started!
Laptop Buying Guide for Beginners! These 10 Tips will (hopefully) help make it easier to buy your next Laptop!
This is Part 1 in a 2 part series In this video I put together a very small form factor Gaming / Emulation PC using an awesome HTPC case I found on Amazon known as the Goodisory A02 and it supports a low profile Dedicated GPU so a picked up as MSI GTX 1650 low profile Graphics Card and paired it up with the Ryzen 5 3600 and the results are way better then I expected! This build does an amazing job at 1080P gaming and it handles emulators like CEMU and RPCS3!
Using 7-segment displays to make a clock is nothing new, but what if you combined 144 of them together to create an epic LED timepiece? That’s exactly how this project was made, allowing it to show surprisingly smooth mega-numbers and a colon set at an angle.
The build itself is controlled by an Arduino Nano, along with an RTC module for timekeeping and 18 MAX7219 drivers to activate over a thousand (1,008) individual segments.
