Hey All!
I’m super happy to announce that our PiPlay Portable Kit is now live on Kickstarter!!!! First day and we hit 50% funded!! Thank you all.
Have a great weekend all!
-Shea
Apr
21
Tag Archives: zero
Mar
07
AdvanceMAME 3.4 for the Raspberry Pi Zero
Hey All,
AdvanceMAME 3.4 has been released with a lot of enhancements for the Raspberry Pi.
I got a message that it wasn’t working, so I recompiled a version JUST for the Raspberry Pi Zero. This is meant to run on the latest version of Jessie with Pixel.
To Install and play, run these commands from the command line
sudo dpkg -i advancemame_3.4-1_armhf.deb advmame
This will install and create your AdvanceMAME folders. Now place your ROMs in:
/home/pi/.advance/roms
Then run:
advmame romname example: advmame sf2
AdvMAME should now start playing your game file.
Have fun!
-Shea
Jan
09
(Late) Friday Post: and the winner is! Also Monoprice Maker Architect 3D Printer
Hey All!
The winner of the Raspberry Pi Zero giveaway is Aaron! Congratulations! I will be emailing you later tonight!
Onto other news. This has been a hell of a week. Had a small health scare with my grandmother, so we drove 200 miles yesterday to visit her. We spent the night and drove back home today. Hence the late post. Shes doing better, so phew! 😀
This week I implemented a cool video encoding queuing system using Redis and Django. The module I used is called Django-RQ, and it makes it super simple to convert your functions into queue-able objects using the @Job decorator.
This Tuesday is my birthday! Woo! I turn 32. I’m content. I also start classes that night. Yay lol. I bought this as a gift for myself:
It’s a Monoprice Maker Architect 3D Printer for $300. It’s a major upgrade compared to my Micro, but it takes a lot more to get it going. I’ve had it for two days and I’ve finally got most of the settings dialed in.
When I went to visit my Grandma I took along my Kinect sensor and used Skanect to scan her, so I was able to quickly print out a very low poly version of her as a bust.
The Skanect free version limits exports to only 5000 polygons. Once I upgrade I can export at full resolution.
Have a good week / weekend all.
Thanks for reading. I really appreciate it.
-Shea
Jan
01
Friday Post: …and a happy new year! 2016!
Hey All,
Happy New Year! 2015 was an amazing year. I learned a lot this year. Had some ups, some downs, some all arounds, but mostly, this was a great year. I’m pleased to have shared it with all of you.
To start off 2016 right, I’m giving away a Raspberry Pi Zero. Just fill out the form and in a week I will select a winner and send it out.
Have a wonderful 2016 everyone and thanks for reading.
-Shea
Dec
05
Friday Post: TGIF
Hey All,
TGIF! Thank goodness it’s Friday. This has been a trying week.
For the bad: I had a little food poisoning, had a small car issue, and dealt with an anxiety attack of epic proportions (hooray for an understanding doctor’s office / doctor.)
For the good: Got most of the kickstarter parts in. Found a really cool edge case in a program we developed at work, and was able to fix it! Also pushed a large project out to AWS for work and it worked. The more I use AWS for large scale applications the more I love it. Still afraid of vendor lock in for my personal projects though.
AND I got my Raspberry Pi Zero in!
This little guy is cool!
Have a good weekend all!
-Shea
Nov
27
Friday Post: Raspberry Pi Zero
Hey All!
Happy Friday, Happy Thanksgiving, Happy Black Friday, Happy Raspberry Pi Zero Day!
So yesterday the Raspberry Pi Foundation launched a new Raspberry Pi board, the Zero.
It’s TINY! And only $5 dollars. So far it’s a Pi 1 clocked at 1ghz, 512MB of RAM, Micro USB for power, Micro USB for peripherals, GPIO pins but without headers, and a mini HDMI port. The latest edition of the MagPi is going to include one in every issue.
They already seem to be sold out online, but I was able to get the starter pack on Adafruit for 29.99. It was worth it since I don’t have a mini HDMI or micro USB to full USB adapter.
Adafruit $29.99 Raspberry Pi Basic Pack
Right now I’m full of Turkey, and spending time with family. I hope you all get to enjoy this time as well.
Have a great weekend!
-Shea