Hey All,
Happy Friday!! This week marks the end of the semester. Finished my finals and got an A! Pushed a lot of work code to our production servers, and waiting for them to turned on on Sunday. Months of hard work finally coming online. It’s been an exciting week. Been playing around with joysticks and working on some issues.
I was also featured on the front page of the Raspberry Pi official site!
Cool things on the way! Have a great weekend.
Hey All,
So yeah, I thought I was all done since we closed on our house. I totally forgot how tough it is to move. We are now moved into our home. Waiting for the ISP to come and actually give me an internet connection. It’s been a bit slow moving on things while we wait for all the utilities. Anyways, here is a picture of the project I’m working on in my “game room”:
There’s a lot of cool PiMAME stuff happening in the forums. Some cool builds and software being developed by other people. Go check it out!
I’m going to try and catch up on my sleep, I’m so physically exhausted from house buying and moving! Happy Holidays!
-Shea
Hey All,
This has been a fun week. K and I have finished painting the house, we’ve been slowly bringing things in. All the fun joys of moving to a new place 🙂
This week I’ve been making progress with Joystick support in PiMAME. I’m hoping for 0.8 to have full joystick support implemented and an easy to use system to configure it.
Remember Cyber Monday deals this coming monday! SparkFun and Adafruit are having some great sales.
-Shea
Hey All!
Happy Friday! K and I are officially homeowners!!! WOOOO!!! This long stressful process took way too much time, and too much energy. I don’t believe how wiped I am just from signing paperwork for a couple hours. This is a huge weight off my shoulders, and a big time sink now gone.
IAAPA 2013
For the past few years I have been attending IAAPA, which is the big amusement part and arcade entertainment expo in Orlando. It’s really a remarkable event, and this years was no different. Some of the highlights was a Korean pavilion showing off a ton of new Korean companies and the games / motion simulators coming out of there. Stern Pinball was showing off the new Star Trek pinball game. It was a lot of fun. The best part of the day was the Namco Bandai booth. They had a bunch of new games, but the exciting ones were a new Mario Kart arcade racing game, and MachStorm, an AceCombat / Afterburner inspired game with an immersive cockpit. I will be posting pictures in another post. One of the more apparent things this year was much less piracy, stolen cabinet designs, and game clones. Previous shows there were blatant ripoffs and large displays that almost seemed to encourage it. This year, not so much.
Holidays
The holidays are approaching, and I hope everyone who reads this has a good one. I am going to have time off work, which will be spent working on PiMAME. I’m hoping to have a January release of the new 0.8 version, and I welcome everyone to contribute to the github repos.
Kano.me
Kano computing is raising a kickstarter for a very innovative Raspberry Pi kit, and they have already reached the 500k mark. These guys are really nice and I have high hopes for them.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/alexklein/kano-a-computer-anyone-can-make
HWHardSoft Pi Cabinet
HWHardSoft has been working on a cool Pi case, and his preorder is now available. http://www.hwhardsoft.de/english/projects/raspberry-pi-mini-cab/
Have a great weekend!
-Shea
Hey all,
Happy Friday!
I am beyond stressed. I think I’m buying a house next friday. If all goes according to plan. Knock on wood, everything will go right.
Anyways, I have put up some new github repos for PiMAME. It’s regarding PiMAME 0.8, and it’s for the new web frontend and the pimame menu / launcher. They are no where near ready for use, but if you would like to help with the programming, feel free to fork the repo and send a pull request.
https://github.com/ssilverm/pimame-menu
https://github.com/ssilverm/pimame-web-frontend
Have a good weekend everyone!
-Shea
Hey All,
Happy Friday!
I just got back from our second tech time conference that I coordinated. It was awesome. Exhausting, but so darn worth it.
Anyways, a coworker and I are working on a new PiMAME menu system, and I thought you all should see a sneak peek of the design work!
I’m really excited!
Stay tuned!
-Shea
Hey All,
The awesome site rasplay.org has posted a guide on how to recompile your Raspberry Pi’s kernel with your own custom image.
http://www.rasplay.org/?p=6371
I am going to try this out with the PiMAME logo this weekend.
Have a good weekend everyone!
Hey all,
It’s been a rough week. K and I have been looking at houses and we’ve had nothing but bad luck. We just lost the second house we had under contract because of appraisal issues. Housing is such an industry that could benefit from technology. I don’t understand how in 2013 I still need to FAX documents, “secure email” is a “works best in IE” website, and personal information is expected to be blurted out anywhere and everywhere.
I work for a university, I’m used to red tape and bureaucracy! I didn’t think buying a house would rival that!
Anyways! PiMAME 0.7.10 is being uploaded this weekend.
The updater version will include Alpha N64 emulation.
The SD card image will include that, a boot up screen, and the new kernel for xin-mo joysticks.
I will update the post when it’s finished uploading.
Have a great weekend all!
-Shea
Hey All,
No PiMAME news this week. Still working on new stuff 🙂
This has been a hectic week. Two weddings and Halloween Horror Nights. Plus a ton of pages that were written for my classes. Woo!
Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios Orlando was great this year. K and I have been going ever since we first started dating, and it’s where I proposed to her two years ago. It’s an awesome tradition for us. Last year they tried some new things like having moving scare zones, which didn’t end up working well. This year however, they went back to scare zones and based it on The Walking Dead. It was a lot of fun.
Pokemon X and Y
I haven’t played Pokemon since Red and Blue came out. I was addicted to the series. I have always loved Pokemon, but the later games just didn’t have the same feel to it. On a whim I bought X and I feel like i’m a kid again. Not only is the game fun, but the online features are great. Being able to battle and trade Pokemon with people all over the world is so much fun.
Add me as a friend, my friend code is: 3823 – 8512 – 0415
As an aside, I want to thank the community surrounding PiMAME. All the members on the forums that are helping each other, showing off their builds, doing awesome stuff with the software, you all make this project awesome. Thank you.
-Shea
Hey All,
Happy Friday!
This week just flew by. It feels like it’s still Wednesday. Maker Faire Orlando has come and gone, and I have to say, it was incredible. I was manning my booth the entire time which always had a crowd but I was able to catch a 10 minute break to eat something and look around. There were so many cool displays, and so many interested people who were interested. By the end of the day my throat was sore and I had lost my voice. It was totally worth it.
I will say this, the X-Arcade Tank Stick is built like a tank. It got hit by hundreds of kids during the Maker Faire and it stood up to the challenge. I’m going to take it apart because I think the right joystick got a little banged up but it was still working.
Python in 24 Hours
Someone who I am very honored to call a friend has just released her new book! Katie Cunningham has just had her book, “Sam’s Teach Yourself Python in 24 Hours“, published. I got mine in the mail today so I haven’t gotten a chance to go through it yet, but I have a feeling it will be great. Congratulations Katie!
Pokemon X and Y
Pokemon X and Y come out tomorrow. I love Pokemon, but I haven’t played one of the core series since Red and Blue (I know!). Most of my office is picking the new one up, so I figured it’s time to once again catch ’em all! Between work, grad school, and PiMAME, where I am going to find the time to play…
PiMAME
I upgrade PiMAME to use the newest version of Raspbian, and recompiled the kernel to have the Xin-Mo module fixes in place. I wanted to hold off on the release until I had more to add, but I think i’m going to do an image only release for this, since you can’t really just do a kernel upgrade with an install script. It will also include the PiMAME intro video.
Once that is released I am going to be working on totally revamping the main menu system and web interface. I have some cool things coming down the pipeline!
Have a great weekend!
-Shea
