The second ever summer moment of zen (or maybe 3rd, but was not able to find any record or video from 2017!)
Thanks for reading and feel free to give feedback or comments via email (andrew@jupiterstation.net).
The first ever summer moment of zen!
Nothing was saved on this first outing (no pictures of rig, mexican blanket, tide/moon, nor how video was created!)
Thanks for reading and feel free to give feedback or comments via email (andrew@jupiterstation.net).
Disclaimer: I uploaded this to the blog in August of 2023 but I have set the publish date to 01/07/2013 when I finished the second prototype.
In early June 2013 I saw a guide on Adafruit about using a Raspberry Pi as a Mame game console. What I really loved was the idea of using the GPIO (general-purpose input/output) pins to directly connect the joystick and buttons. Not long after I was reviewing material in a warehouse to ensure that none of our networking equipment was stored there because the next day a chatarrero (scrap collector in spanish) was coming to take everything away. I did not find any of our networking equipment, but I did see an old Sony Trinitron security monitor that I immediately thought would make a great game console due to it’s form factor like the old Vectrex from my youth. So read on for the implementation and evolution of the project!
