Generated by All in One SEO v4.9.10, this is an llms.txt file, used by LLMs to index the site. # Shea Silverman's Blog My brain dump ## Sitemaps - [XML Sitemap](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/sitemap.xml): Contains all public & indexable URLs for this website. ## Posts - [Vaccinated!](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2021/04/vaccinated/) - Hey All, I write this with such relief that my family was able to get fully vaccinated against COVID-19. This week we both got our second shots. Decided I had to model a COVID Buster pin to let the world know :D Mac Mini Classic In other modeling news, I have started to work on - [Making Making Making](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2021/02/making-making-making/) - I'll be honest, I really keep thinking if I blog what I'm doing now then that will be it, and I won't have any content for next week. Hah! Every week just reminds me how many things I end up putting myself into so yeah, I just need to stop worrying about having content and - [Projects!](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2021/02/projects/) - Hey All, Last post I talked about completing projects...and I've got an update on my First Order Stormtrooper helmet! 99% done! I just need to do a little more touchups, paint the vent silver, and add the lenses! Here's what it looked like as I was touching it up: Hopefully in another week or so - [2021 Obtainable Goals](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2021/01/2021-obtainable-goals/) - Hey All, So, I've been reflecting on the past year and the past month, the things I've made and the things I haven't. I've come to the conclusion that for this year I only want to put my energy into projects I know how to complete or have the capability to do. I know that - [IPS LCD Upgrade for a GBA SP](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2021/01/ips-lcd-upgrade-for-a-gba-sp/) - Hey All, Well this has been a week! Here's to hoping President Biden can usher in some new progressive policies and finally have a government that takes the Coronavirus Pandemic seriously. All I want is my vaccination ASAP! Tryign to take my mind off everythign I've been throwing myself into lots of projects that I - [Happy Birthday To Me!](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2021/01/happy-birthday-to-me-2/) - Hey All, Sticking to my new years resolution. Another week, another post. This was kind of a rough week, as it's the first week of classes. My team just released a new version of our software, on a new platform, with new automation tools, but there's only so much testing you can do before you - [KANO Computing DIY Mouse and Webcam](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2021/01/kano-computing-diy-mouse-and-webcam/) - Hey All, I've been a big supporter of Kano Computing since they did their original Kickstarter for the build it yourself computer kit featuring the Raspberry Pi and awesome wireless keyboard (that I use on almost every project. That thing has been a lifesaver at every Maker Faire I've participated in!) One of the Christmas - [Happy New Year! Hi 2021! Go Away 2020...](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2021/01/happy-new-year-hi-2021-go-away-2020/) - Hey all. Happy New Year! This year I resolve to blog once a week again. Every Friday I will post what I'm working on. I've become creative again (I think...) and I want to put out to the world what I'm working on. Raspberry Pi StepMania Dance Pad Right now I'm working on a CNC'd - [StepMania on the Raspberry Pi 4!](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2020/11/stepmania-on-the-raspberry-pi-4/) - For anyone that knows me, Dance Dance Revolution and StepMania were a large part of my life years ago. It's how I lost a ton of weight. 6 years ago was my first attempt to get StepMania running on a Raspberry Pi...and it was a horrible experience. Today I'm proud to say that StepMania runs - [Things I did in 2020](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2020/11/things-i-did-in-2020/) - So, like my last post stated, I did some things while stuck at home. My absolute favorite project was this: I followed this guide (https://github.com/geaz/simplyRetro-D8) and built this awesome 3D printable desktop arcade cabinet. It of course uses a Raspberry Pi running RetroPi and uses an awesome readily available 4 x 3 LCD screen! And - [I feel creative again!](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2020/11/i-feel-creative-again/) - Hey all, It's been a long 4 years. I'm so glad Biden won. I feel like a weight has been lifted off my shoulders. That I'm not just trying to survive the next news cycle, but also prospering and looking forward to the future. It had taken its toll when every day you expect the - [PCBArt](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2019/01/pcbart/) - Authors Note: While PCBWay has offered to sponsor a run of the boards, everything purchased for this post was paid for out of pocket and without their knowledge. I wanted to make sure they were good on my own. Hey All, I'm a collector. I like to collect things. Video games, Raspberry Pis, Pokemon cards, - [2018](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2018/12/2018/) - Hey All, I almost didn't blog for the whole year. To be truthful, it's been hard to write this past year. Lots of amazing wonderful things have happened to me in 2018, but I'm exhausted. And this blog was easy to overlook. I want to write again, but at my own pace. I'm going to - [Monoprice Maker Ultimate or how 3 point leveling made 3D printing fun again](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2017/09/monoprice-maker-ultimate-or-how-3-point-leveling-made-3d-printing-fun-again/) - Hey All, TL;DR: IMHO 3 point bed leveling is so much better than 4 point bed leveling and auto bed leveling. So the PiPlay Portable Kickstarter has ended, and we have been doing tons of fulfillment these past few weeks. One of the add-ons was originally a laser cut case, but realistically, it didn't work - [Gone too long!](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2017/08/gone-too-long/) - Hey All! I'm sorry about the lack of posts. Being a Dad is the most amazing time consuming adventure I have ever been on! I am currently on paternity leave, and of course I thought I would have tons of down time to post and update....all the parents are collectively shaking their head. He's 4 - [Friday Post: PiPlay Portable funded :D](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2017/05/friday-post-piplay-portable-funded-d/) - Hey All, Thank you, to my backers, and supporters, for helping to fund the PiPlay Portable. I'm so excited to get to make this. We just got the latest prototype boards in, as well as our stickers from StickerMule. We were also able to get some polybags for real cheap (they are in beta, so - [PiPlay Portable - Last Day](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2017/05/piplay-portable-last-day/) - Hey All, This has been an exciting week. The PiPlay Portable is fully funded, and we have less than 12 hours to go on the Kickstarter! Sam has been growing so fast! I love being a Dad. It's an experience I am so happy I get to have, and of course I have 3D scanned - [Friday Post: PiPlay Portable is fully funded! And meet the newest member of the PiPlay Team!](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2017/04/friday-post-piplay-portable-is-fully-funded-and-meet-the-newest-member-of-the-piplay-team/) - Hey All, The PiPlay Portable Kickstarter is fully funded!!! Thank you to all of you. We are super humbled and excited that we get to see this kit succeed. In even more incredible news.... I'm super excited to introduce our son, Sam, born Monday April 24th. Mother and Baby are doing great. We came home - [Friday Post: PiPlay Portable Kickstarter is now LIVE!!!!](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2017/04/friday-post-piplay-portable-kickstarter-is-now-live/) - 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. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1985705009/piplay-portable https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLNvH9B3qtI Have a great weekend all! -Shea - [Arcades! Arcades! Arcades!](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2017/04/arcades-arcades-arcades/) - Hey All, This weekend is Star Wars Celebrations! While I'm not able to go, for the past week I've been helping Free Play Florida finish their 10 foot Star Wars arcade cabinet for the convention. This thing is awesome! And MASSIVE! This machine will be at Free Play Florida and Orlando Maker Faire this year - [Friday Post: Fix It Felix Jr. running on the Raspberry Pi!](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2017/03/friday-post-fix-it-felix-jr-running-on-the-raspberry-pi/) - Hey All, This post is made possible because ELTechs has provided me with an early version of Exagear Desktop 2.0. This is commercial software that was provided to me free of charge. One of my game room goals has been to have a full sized Fix It Felix Jr. arcade cabinet, and now that I - [Friday Post: Politics](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2017/03/friday-post-politics/) - Politics (or how I bought trumpsucks.gop and you can too). To those who may not have guessed, I am not a big Trump supporter. I am a Bernie Sanders fan. I am an independent progressive who thinks science and technology are the way forward. This week the Republicans tried to bring their Trumpcare bill to - [Pi Day Giveaway!](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2017/03/pi-day-giveaway/) - Hey All! Happy Pi Day! For Pi Day, I am going to be giving away TWO things. A Raspberry Pi 3, and a PiPlay Portable kit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiOb1cmdwUk&feature=youtu.be All you have to do to enter is enter your email address in the form below. I will be closing the submission at the end of the week! - [AdvanceMAME 3.4 for the Raspberry Pi Zero](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2017/03/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. Get it here To Install and play, - [Friday Post: Simplify3D customer service is the best!](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2017/02/friday-post-simplify3d-customer-service-is-the-best/) - Hey All, Not much to report on this week. I was having issues with really bad stringing on my prints from my SeeMeCNC ERIS 3D printer. On fully enclosed prints, it's been great, but on anything with overhangs or open spaces, the stringing has been incredibly bad. I use Simplify3D as my slicer, and it's - [Friday Post: No broken foot and open source software is awesome!](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2017/02/friday-post-no-broken-foot-and-open-source-software-is-awesome/) - Hey All, Got some great news. My wife didn't actually break her foot. We went to a orthopedist who specializes in feet injuries, and he says it's only a MAJOR sprain. She's still in pain, but at least it is a lot less serious. The brace only needs to be worn during the day, she - [Friday Post: Broken Foot](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2017/01/friday-post-broken-foot/) - Hey All, It's so weird to realize it was my birthday, and it passed by this year with little fanfare from me. Knowing I'm having a baby in less than 3 months kinda takes your mind off those things. What is on my mind is my wife broke her foot this week and I am - [Friday Post: 2017! New Year New Stuff!](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2017/01/friday-post-2017-new-year-new-stuff/) - Hey All! Happy New Year! Less than 99 days till the baby is due. I'm building stuff for the nursery, getting stuff ready. Feels more like demolition because it was our game / media room and most of the week was spent moving stuff out. I installed my first ceiling fan today! Feels good, feels - [End of 2016](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2016/12/end-of-2016/) - Hey All, It's the last day of 2016. What. a. year. Finding out I'm going to be a Dad in 2017. We just found out it's going to be a BOY!!!! I'm so excited, and terrified, and excited. K and I just got back from New York City. We wanted to do one last big - [Migrated Hosts](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2016/11/migrated-hosts/) - Hey All, I've been in the process of migrating hosts this week. I'm sad to say that my friends company, VNucleus, has shuttered it's hosting business. Oh well, on to bigger and better things. If you see this, you are on the new host and your DNS has migrated! Yay. -Shea - [How to run for Florida Office](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2016/11/how-to-run-for-florida-office/) - Hey All, This year I ran for Florida House of Representatives District 49 (Orlando). I lost, but I got 31% of the vote and I only spent $3000. My opponent got 69% of the vote and spent $100,000. I've been asked about this on Reddit, so I'm going to make a detailed post about how - [31%](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2016/11/31-2/) - Hey All, On Tuesday, November 8th, 2016, I received 31% of the vote for Florida's House of Representatives District 49. I did not win, but we did amazing. Thank you to everyone who donated, volunteered, supported, and voted for me. Sincerely, thank you. I spent ~$3000 and was able to get 19,697 votes. My opponent - [Awesome news and MakerFaire Orlando 2016 coming up](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2016/10/awesome-news-and-maker-faire-orlando-2016/) - Hey All, I have extremely awesome and happy news to report! K is pregnant!!!! We are having a baby! In other news, MAKERFAIRE ORLANDO 2016 is this weekend at the Central Florida Fairgrounds!!!! Come see me, FamiLAB, and hundreds of other exhibits showcasing the biggest show and tell on Earth! Jacob and I have recently finished - [Updates Updates Updates](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2016/09/updates-updates-updates/) - Hey All, Sorry for the long delay in updates. Been extremely busy with the campaign and some personal projects. I needed the break but I'm back. Good News The Florida primaries are over, and it is only myself and a Democrat in the race for Florida House District 49. I am currently polling in the - [InstructureCon 2016](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2016/07/instructurecon-2016/) - Hey All, So last week I was at InstructureCon giving a presentation on ProctorHub (UCF's passive proctoring solution). InstructureCon was held at Keystone, Colorado this year, and it kicked my butt. Those mountains and high elevation are no joke. It was incredibly hard to breath that first day. Everything went well, presentation was awesome, met - [Happy 4th of July!](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2016/07/happy-4th-of-july/) - Hey All, Happy 4th of July! Go eat some hotdogs, grill some burgers, and watch some fireworks. That's my plan for today :) In other news.... Amazon is selling the Monoprice Maker Select 3D Printer at the incredible price of $279 with Prime shipping! The Maker Select is based on the Prusa i3, and is - [Qualified!](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2016/06/qualified/) - Hey All! I am very proud to announce that I qualified for the Florida House of Representatives District 49 race. My name will be on the ballot this election! This is exciting, and will be an extremely tough race. I am running as a No Party Affiliated candidate. I believe in: Equal Rights Let Teachers - [Sunday At Home In Orlando](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2016/06/sunday-at-home-in-orlando/) - Sunday Sucked. I haven’t felt this numb and exposed in a long time. My deepest sympathies and love go out to all the families, victims, and survivors in this awful tragedy. The only shining light in all of this was how we as a community reacted to the aftermath. To quote Mr. Rogers: “When I - [Politics and PCBs](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2016/05/politics-and-pcbs/) - Hey All, This has been a fun month. Between campaigning, work, and Raspberry Pi stuff, I’ve been busy :D Politics So I’ve been campaigning a lot this month. I am running for the District 49 Representative in Florida’s House. I love my district. One thing that is crazy to me is the amount of money - [Shea Silverman for Florida House of Representatives District 49](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2016/04/shea-silverman-for-florida-house-of-representatives-district-49/) - Hey All! I have some exciting news. I've been wanting to announce this for a while now, but tonight is the night. I am running for Florida's House of Representatives District 49 as a No Party Affiliation candidate. The Bernie Sanders campaign has resonated very closely with me. I believe that honest, transparent individuals can - [AdvanceMAME 1.4 and AdvanceMESS 1.4 for Raspberry Pi3](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2016/04/advancemame-1-4-and-advancemess-1-4-for-raspberry-pi3/) - Hey All, I compiled AdvanceMAME 1.4 and AdvanceMESS 1.4 for the Raspberry Pi3. On the Pi3, games like Street Fighter II and The Simpsons run like butter with full audio. It's great! You can download them here: http://sheasilverman.com/rpi/raspbian/pi3/advancemame_1.4-1_armhf_pi3.deb http://sheasilverman.com/rpi/raspbian/pi3/advancemess_1.4-1_armhf_pi3.deb To install run: sudo dpkg --force-all -i advancemame_1.4-1_armhf_pi3.deb sudo dpkg --force-all -i advancemess_1.4-1_armhf_pi3.deb On another note, our first "PiPlay Advance" - [Friday Post: Cool Stuff](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2016/03/friday-post-cool-stuff/) - Hey All, Got some cool stuff to post! First off, got my Pi3 and have pics to show. Love this device so much! BUT, what I'm more excited to show off is a very early prototype of a project a coworker and I are working on! It's a Raspberry Pi Zero powered portable gaming system - [Friday Post: The Flu Sucks](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2016/03/friday-post-the-flu-sucks/) - Hey All, Sorry for the lack of updates, I got the flu and it kicked my ass! I've also been dealing with school, my grandma being sick, work, and just so much stuff on my plate. But yay It's spring break right now, so I'm back for a bit. While I was gone the Raspberry - [Friday Post: StepMania on Raspberry Pi2](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2016/02/friday-post-stepmania-on-raspberry-pi2/) - Hey All! So this week the Raspberry Pi Foundation released a new version of Raspbian that includes experimental support for OpenGL. This is a big leap from OpenGL ES. This is real OpenGL that tons of games and software use. No mobile versions required anymore. That being said, its super experimental. It basically breaks the - [3D Printing TFA Stormtrooper Helmet](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2016/01/3d-printing-tfa-stormtrooper-helmet/) - Hey All, I've been busy printing out some Star Wars The Force Awakens Stormtrooper helmet pieces. I've now printed enough that I can start to put it together. These are only the first 9 pieces of a 22 piece build. You can get the helmet files here -Shea - [Friday Post: AdvanceMAME 1.4 debs](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2016/01/friday-post-advancemame-1-4-debs/) - Hey All, Updates maybe sporadic for the next few weeks. AdvanceMAME updated to 1.4 so I have recompiled the source and made .debs out of it. This will work on the Pi and Pi2. AdvanceMAME 1.4 Deb Download To install goto a terminal and type: sudo dpkg --force-install -i advancemame_1.4-1_armhf.db advmame You will now have - [(Late) Friday Post: and the winner is! Also Monoprice Maker Architect 3D Printer](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2016/01/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. - [Friday Post: ...and a happy new year! 2016!](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2016/01/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 - [Friday Post: Merry Christmas!](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2015/12/friday-post-merry-christmas/) - Merry Christmas Everyone! Sorry for the lack of updates, been working hard on the Deskcade Kickstarter. I hope your holidays are going amazingly and that you all have a wonderful new year! Here is to 2016. The best is yet to come. -Shea - [Friday Post: TGIF](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2015/12/friday-post-tgif-2/) - 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 - [Friday Post: Raspberry Pi Zero](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2015/11/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 - [Friday Post: IAAPA 2015](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2015/11/friday-post-iaapa-2015/) - Hey All, Happy Friday! I was lucky enough to be able to attend a day of IAAPA again this year. IAAPA is THE worldwide Arcade and Amusement expo. I'm fortunate that it takes place in Orlando, FL, otherwise I wouldn't be able to get this opportunity. One of the highlights of the trade show was - [Friday Post: Less than 24 hours left on the Deskcade Kickstarter!](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2015/11/friday-post-less-than-24-hours-left-on-the-deskcade-kickstarter/) - Hey All! Less than 24 hours left on the Deskcade Kickstarter! So excited!!! On a related note, I picked up a Steam Controller to see what the hype was about. It's cool, but what's really neat is that it can be a keyboard, mouse, or gamepad at the same time, depending on the game. Whats - [Friday Post: Texas](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2015/11/friday-post-texas/) - Hey All, Just got back from Austin, Texas for an educational conference. The University of Texas at Austin is beautiful! Had a good conference, the LBJ Presidential Museum is on campus, so I was able to check that out. There is a really nice Makerspace located in the basement of the engineering building. Had a - [Friday Post: 100% Funded!](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2015/10/friday-post-100-funded/) - Hey All, In just a short amount of time the Deskcade Kickstarter has been 100% funded! This is awesome! Thank you all for your continued support. Here is some play testing I took at FamiLAB: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkaD_Lpx_fw I have been told very last minute that I am going to Austin Texas next week to participate in - [Friday Post: DESKCADE KICKSTARTER!!!](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2015/10/friday-post-deskcade-kickstarter/) - Hey All!!! The PiPlay team and I just launched our Deskcade Kickstarter!!!! We only launched yesterday and are already over 70% of the way there!!!! I hope you back it, and to those who have already you kick butt! THANK YOU! -Shea - [Friday Post: Orlando iX 2015](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2015/10/friday-post-orlando-ix-2015/) - Orlando iX was amazing. I was expecting nothing, and I got treated to an incredible 3 days of awesome tech heads talking shop and showing off their cool stuff. From cool indie games such as Battery Jam, to a storytelling "robot" plush named Trobo. The entire event was just filled with energy. I - [Friday Post: Raspberry Pi Display and Orlando IX](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2015/10/friday-post-raspberry-pi-display-and-orlando-ix/) - Hey All, Happy Friday! This weekend is Orlando IX. It's the first time this event is happening, and they are trying to make it like Orlando's SXSW. Let's see if they can pull it off. My coworkers are going to be there representing UCF, while me and some friends are going to be showing off - [Friday Post: Maker Faire Orlando 2015 Was Awesome!](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2015/09/friday-post-maker-faire-orlando-2015-was-awesome/) - Hey All, Maker Faire Orlando 2015 was amazing! It was awesome. So much fun was had by all. We set a new world record for the tallest arcade machine (playing Bubble Bobble). I am so proud of all my fellow makers that made the event a success! You may have noticed an all black - [Friday Post: Orlando Maker Faire is here!](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2015/09/friday-post-orlando-maker-faire-is-here/) - Hey All! Orlando Maker Faire is here!!! If you are in Orlando, make your way to the Orlando Science Center and come see 300+ exhibits including PiPlay and our custom arcade machine! Factur, FamiLAB, PiPlay, and Free Play Florida also have the worlds largest arcade machine being setup! It stands at 15 feet tall - [Friday Post: Another week, another Make: article!](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2015/09/friday-post-another-week-another-make-article/) - Hey All, Maker Faire is in one week! Holy cow! Not enough time to get everything done! We are on Make: again, this time talking about the quest to make the worlds largest arcade game! My own exhibit will be about PiPlay and my own arcade cabinet that I'm building: That's all for this - [Friday Post: Cool Stuff for Maker Faire Orlando](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2015/08/friday-post-cool-stuff-for-maker-faire-orlando/) - Hey All, First week of the semester is done! Can't say everything went off without a hitch. Ran into a nasty timezone issue between servers that I just couldn't figure out. One image, two servers cloned from that image. When pulling the info from Python one reported UTC, the other Eastern. Tried a bunch of - [Friday Post: Start of Semester](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2015/08/friday-post-start-of-semester/) - Hey All, Sorry for not posting last weekend. I needed a break. I have been super swamped these past two weeks. Fall semester begins on Monday, and for some reason, this feels like a weird one. Something is in the air. My team is launching a new app for teachers and students. It's coming out - [Friday Post: Raspberry Pi iBeacon](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2015/08/friday-post-raspberry-pi-ibeacon/) - Hey All, Now that Hack Day at the office is out of the way, I would like to post about what I learned and some examples to get you started. The following is some example code and an introduction to iBeacons. Setting up a Raspberry Pi to be an iBeacon Longer guide available here: Adafruit PiBeacon - [Friday Post: Forgetting to set DNS](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2015/08/friday-post-forgetting-to-set-dns/) - Hey All, So for the past month I've been racking my brain trying to figure out the issue where PiPlay says Could not check for updates. I KNEW it was because of my server move but I couldn't figure it out. I couldn't reproduce it on my end. I really thought that it was because - [Friday Post: Even more 3D printing...](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2015/07/friday-post-even-more-3d-printing/) - Hey All, This has felt like one of the longest weeks of my life. Had a couple meetings about Maker Faire Orlando, pushed out some software that 60,000 students will be using in a month. It's super stressful. Luckily it's Friday and I can end up sleeping until Sunday :D I was hoping to have - [Friday Post: More 3D Printing](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2015/07/friday-post-more-3d-printing/) - Hey All, Happy Friday! Brain fried from a week of getting some new software at work prepped and ready to be moved to production. Scary doing a push because some 60,000 faculty and students might run into an issue. We test as well as we can, but theres always that one case that you miss. - [Friday Post: Make Magazine!](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2015/07/friday-post-make-magazine/) - Hey All, Happy Friday! This week just flew by, but projects are going really well, and I am hoping to have a cool announcement in the next week or so. In the meantime... PiPlay was featured in Make Magazine!!!!!!! I'm seriously fanboying over here. To have my project featured in Make is like having a - [Friday Post: 3D Printing and Raspberry Pi live streaming](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2015/07/friday-post-3d-printing-and-raspberry-pi-live-streaming/) - Hey All, Happy Friday and happy 4th of July weekend! On Monday I recieved a 3D Printer from the company M3D. It is the blue Micro 3D printer. If you use the coupon code "refurb" you can get one for $300 dollars (plus about $12 shipping). So far I've printed out a bunch of things, - [Friday Post: Working Working Working](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2015/06/friday-post-working-working-working/) - Hey All, I feel like I have a ton on my plate and nothing to show....yet. Working on PiPlay, our new remote controller system, an arcade game for Orlando IX, and an arcade machine for Maker Faire Orlando. It's going to be a rough couple of months :) This weekend is Community Effort Orlando, an - [Friday Post: Raspberry Pi Case and No Starch Press Humble Bundle!](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2015/06/friday-post-raspberry-pi-case-and-no-starch-press-humble-bundle/) - Happy Friday! This was a long week. I had three things to do at work. 2 of them took 20 minutes, the last one took 4 days to finish. I've also apparently become addicted to Splatoon on the Wii U. Official Raspberry Pi Case The Raspberry Pi Foundation has come out with their official Raspberry - [Late Friday Post: NMC 2015 Conference and Washington DC](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2015/06/late-friday-post-nmc-2015-conference-and-washington-dc/) - Hey All, Sorry for not posting on Friday. I've been in Washington, D.C. for the week presenting at the New Media Consortium 2015 Summer Conference. I was demonstrating UCF's LTI applications to other schools and representatives. It was a great experience. I also got to explore DC, which is an amazing place. It's our Capitol, - [Friday Post: Ubuntu Mate on Pi2](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2015/06/friday-post-ubuntu-mate-on-pi2/) - Hey All, I do not know how the Splatoon box art got into the title. That's crazy. Anyways, I tested out Ubuntu Mate for the Raspberry Pi2, and it's impressive. Everything feels really responsive, Firefox on it is super smooth. It looks like a good build. The only problem is that it's only for the - [Friday Post: BeagleBone Splatoon](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2015/05/friday-post-beaglebone-splatoon/) - Hey All, Happy Friday! Today Nintendo released a whole bunch of new Amiibos that were highly sought after. I was in line at WalMart at midnight and had a lot of fun. Met a bunch of cool people in line. We were laughing and comparing game collections, and then the electronics guy comes out and - [Friday Post: Happy 90th Birthday Grandma!](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2015/05/friday-post-happy-90th-birthday-grandma/) - Hey All, First off, Happy 90th Birthday to my Grandma B!! Love ya! It's been a hectic few weeks. The migration has gone pretty well. I have some more stuff to move over, but I'm happy with it. The server is so powerful. Mark and I are going to be bringing up a new service - [Friday Post: F-Zero AX](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2015/05/friday-post-f-zero-ax/) - Hey All, So, I used to collect arcade games, but when I moved, I had to sell my collection. Now that I own a house with a garage, I'm able to start rebuilding my mini arcade (and using PiPlay in the mean time :) ). One of my favorites and prized machines was an F-Zero - [I'm Back! Thanks to my new host vNucleus](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2015/05/im-back-thanks-to-my-new-host-vnucleus/) - Hey All, Hopefully I didn't worry you all too much. I'm kinda embarrassed to admit this, but for the past few weeks, I've been effectively locked out of a lot of my web apps due to my old host's server not being able to handle the load. I've been with them for 3 years, and - [Friday Post: PyCon 2015!](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2015/04/friday-post-pycon-2015/) - Hey All, PyCon 2015 is over. It was an amazing time in Montreal. My coworker and I presented ProctorHub, the homegrown proctoring solution that we created for our university. We met a lot of fellow educators, tons of fellow pythonistas, and learned a ton! A PiPlay kit was also auctioned off during the PyLadies auction, - [Friday Post: PyCon 2015, also Make!](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2015/04/friday-post-pycon-2015-also-make/) - Hey All, So next week I will be in Montreal for the annual Python Software Foundation conference: PyCon. My coworker and I will be presenting a project we developed at UCF that uses Django, AWS, and a bunch of other tools that allow us to help 60,000 students learn in a better environment. Next Friday's - [Friday Post: PiPlay 0.8 Beta 9 Released!](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2015/03/friday-post-piplay-0-8-beta-9-released/) - Happy Friday Everyone! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2e1q_QNdGY I am proud to present the very latest version of PiPlay! PiPlay 0.8 Beta 9! I feel like this is the best release yet! While this was mostly a bug fix and compatibility update, we do have one awesome new features implemented. When you upload, drag and drop, ftp, or - [Very Late Friday Post: 2 Years!](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2015/03/very-late-friday-post-2-years/) - Hey All, Sorry for the very late post this week. Trying to figure out why I'm having such connectivity issues to my web host. Replaced the router. Still happens. Modem is fine. It's not my host. But my ISP can't see it as being down since it comes up 5 minutes later. I can VPN - [Late Friday Post: Pi Day!](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2015/03/late-friday-post-pi-day/) - Hey All! Happy Pi Day!!! Sorry about the late posting. My internet has been acting up for the past two days. Yay. The past few days have been the Orlando FIRST Regional Robotics Competition hosted at UCF. I am a FIRST Alumni from 2002, a member of Team 108 SigmaC@Ts. It was so awesome to - [Friday Post: Bugs!](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2015/03/friday-post-bugs/) - Hey All, First of all, yes, I'm aware of a really dumb bug in PiPlay 8 Beta 8. I'm going to release an update this weekend that should fix it. I don't know how I let a release slide with a joystick bug, but I did, and I'm sorry. I changed my Raspberry Pi battle - [Friday Post: DIY Joystick](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2015/02/friday-post-diy-joystick/) - Hey All! Happy Friday! This week I took video of myself building a small Arcade Joystick for the Raspberry Pi. I hope you all enjoy. Let me know if you have any questions! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WaPZ5wyRsM MagPi The latest issue of the MagPi is out, and in this issue, not only have they announced that they are - [Raspberry Pi Gaming Second Edition Published!](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2015/02/raspberry-pi-gaming-second-edition-published/) - Hey All, I am VERY excited to post about this. I have been working on this book for the better part of a year, it has truly been a blood sweat and tears kinda project. I felt burnt out at times, frustrated, ecstatic, relieved, rewarded, and angry all during the writing of this book. But - [Friday Post: PiPlay 8 Beta 8!](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2015/02/friday-post-piplay-8-beta-8/) - It's now available on SourceForge! Hey All, PiPlay 8 Beta 8 is here! Mark has put a huge amount of time into the new frontend code. We have moved form YAML files to a SQLite database. Many items have been sped up. The web frontend now has a database administration section. This is a - [Friday Post: Termboy](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2015/02/friday-post-termboy/) - Hey All, Happy Friday! So I have had my Pi2 for a week, and I gotta say, it's a great piece of kit. PiPlay is coming along nicely. Having some hiccups on the Pi2 that I need to fix before I do a full release. TermBoy With that being said, I saw on Hacker News - [[VIDEO] PiPlay on Pi2](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2015/02/video-piplay-on-pi2/) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBubgnwDqdY Here is PiPlay 0.8 Beta 8 running on the new Raspberry Pi Pi2 - [Pi2 Unboxing](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2015/02/pi2-unboxing/) - [Friday Post: Pi2 should be arriving tomorrow...](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2015/02/friday-post-pi2-should-be-arriving-tomorrow/) - Hey All! So my Pi2 is scheduled to arrive tomorrow! I am currently prepping a new PiPlay image, as well as a new update so that it should just be plug and play. I'm excited!!! Humble Bundle Books Edition So I love Humble Bundle. I have bought a ton of things from them in the - [Raspberry Pi 2](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2015/02/raspberry-pi-2/) - Hey All, A big announcement came from the Raspberry Pi Foundation today! They introduced the Raspberry Pi 2! The biggest change is the CPU has been upgraded from a single core ARMv6 @ 700Mhz to a QUAD CORE ARMv7 @ 900Mhz. The RAM has also been upgraded from 512MB to 1GB. The price is going - [Friday Post: PiPlay Sneak Peek](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2015/01/friday-post-piplay-sneak-peek/) - Hey All, I wanted to give you all a sneak peek on the next version of PiPlay. The biggest feature is that we are moving from YAML files to a sqlite DB to store a lot of the data. There are also lots of optimizations and speed improvements. My two favorite features have to be - [Friday Post: Javascript for Kids Review & iOS dev needed](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2015/01/friday-post-javascript-for-kids-review-ios-dev-needed/) - Hey All! So my 31st birthday was great. Got a Gamecube controller adapter for the Wii U, had some 8 player smash battles, and my wife made me an awesome Pokemon cake! PiPlay iOS App So one of the items I have been working on on the side for PiPlay is a remote controller option. - [Friday Post: 31](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2015/01/friday-post-31/) - Hey All, So I'm 31. I feel like this year is going to be amazing. I've felt burnt out on a few things, been struggling to find time to do everything I wanted. But this year I'm going to work on better time management. I've finished the tough part of my book, the writing portion. - [Happy Birthday to Me! :)](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2015/01/happy-birthday-to-me/) - Hey All, Just a quick post. I turned 31 today :) This year is going to be awesome :D FYI, I made some new channels in Freenode, #amiibo-hacking and #piplay. Hope to see you in there! -Shea - [Friday Post: Django, AWS, and oAuth](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2015/01/friday-post-django-aws-and-oauth/) - Hey All, So the semester begins on Monday, meaning this whole week our department has been dealing with semester startup. Making sure all our apps are tested, available, and production ready. One of my apps has become the guinea pig for moving our infrastructure into the cloud. This has been a really fun experience like - [Friday Post: 2015!!!!](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2015/01/friday-post-2015/) - Hey All, Happy New Year!!! 2014 was an amazing year for me: Got contracted to write a second book (almost done) Ran a successful Kickstarter Had YTD 64,000 downloads of PiPlay Spoke at PyCon, Computers in Libraries, and EDUCAUSE conferences Participated in Orlando Maker Faire Was able to hire the very talented Elizabeth Williams to - [Packt Publishing - All eBooks $5](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2014/12/packt-publishing-all-ebooks-5/) - Hey All, Packt Publishing, the company that publishes my book, just sent me this promotion they are running. All eBooks for the next week have been discounted to $5. https://www.packtpub.com/packt5dollar Have a good day everyone! -Shea - [Sunday Post (Can I pretend it's still Friday?): Pycon 2015](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2014/12/sunday-post-can-i-pretend-its-still-friday-pycon-2015/) - Hey All, I can't believe it's getting to the end of 2014. What an amazing year this has been! I just found out that my coworker and I have had our poster submission accepted into Pycon 2015's poster presentation session. I'm really excited that I get to again showcase my work in front of the - [Friday Post: Time Drift Sucks](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2014/12/friday-post-time-drift-sucks/) - Hey All, I've been plagued by a bug at work for the past 6 months. Every so often, my oAuth library would fail out of the blue, causing some of my apps to die. It never occurred in production, only in our development environments. If I made the oAuth token by hand, or used the - [Holiday Shopping Guide 2014](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2014/12/holiday-shopping-guide-2014/) - Hey All, Figured I would post a list of items that I feel would be awesome purchases for anyone with an electronics itch to scratch! Holiday 2014 Raspberry Pi Model B+ (B PLUS) 512MB Computer Board Raspberry Pi Model A+ (256MB) Mayflash PS2 PS3 PC USB Universal Arcade Fighting Stick Qanba Q1 PS3 & PC - [Encade Portable Raspberry Pi Gaming Console Kickstarter](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2014/12/encade-portable-raspberry-pi-gaming-console-kickstarter/) - Hey All, Just wanted to post a cool Kickstarter that I'm backing. The people at Nzen Mods are designing a really cool Raspberry Pi based project. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2032055368/the-encade-a-portable-raspberry-pi-gaming-console It's a portable Raspberry Pi based gaming console. They are so close to hitting their goal, and only have 22 hours left. Enjoy! -Shea - [Friday Post: Happy Thanksgiving!](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2014/11/friday-post-happy-thanksgiving/) - Happy Thanksgiving everyone. This marks the beginning of the holiday season. I hope everyone gets to spend it with wonderful family and friends. -Shea - [Late Friday Post (yeah it's Sunday): IAAPA! Super Smash Bros!](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2014/11/late-friday-post-yeah-its-sunday-iaapa-super-smash-bros/) - Hey All, Sorry for the super late post. The weather changes here in Florida knocked me on my butt. I've been in bed for the past two days trying to get over this cold. Going from 40 degrees to 70 to 80 back to 40 just messes with me. It also didn't help that I - [Friday Post: MakeSmith CNC Router](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2014/11/friday-post-makesmith-cnc-router/) - Hey All! Happy Friday! This has been a "short" week for me. Had the day off on Tuesday for Veterans Day, and today campus closed early because our football team is going up against Tulsa. Go Knights! PiPlay happenings! Mark has been working on an advanced database scraper tool. It's going to be awesome once - [Friday Post: DISPMANX_vnc and Homepass](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2014/11/friday-post-dispmanx_vnc-and-homepass/) - Hey All, Happy Friday! I want to send a Very Happy Birthday to my Father. This weekend is his birthday and I'm very proud to be his son. I've been very busy these past few weeks, I've been contracted to write a second edition of my Raspberry Pi Gaming book, and it's taking up a - [Friday Post: Happy Halloween!](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2014/10/friday-post-happy-halloween/) - Happy Halloween Everyone! Love my coworkers. We do enjoy our office Halloween shenanigans. At the Orlando Maker Faire I had gotten myself scanned for a 3D statue. This week it arrived. I present, Mini Me! That's it for this week folks. Not a whole lot going on. Sorry! -Shea - [Friday Post: PiPlay 0.8 Beta 7](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2014/10/friday-post-piplay-0-8-beta-7/) - Hey All, Sorry about the lack of posts last week, dealing with family stuff. I am excited to formally announce the release of PiPlay 0.8 Beta 7! 0.8.0 Beta 7 Added changelog popup Themes now support background music (uncompressed preferred) Fixed problems with semi-transparent labels 2 player controller config support added Controller Config list sorted - [Friday Post: Custom Carts](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2014/10/friday-post-custom-carts/) - Hey All, Happy Friday! This week I got in two cartridges that I am very to share with you all. The first one is a custom SNES cart called StarFox Legacy! StarFox Legacy contains three games: The original StarFox The StarFox competition game (a modified version that has a timer set and you have to - [Friday Post: EDUCAUSE](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2014/10/friday-post-educause/) - Hey All, This week I was at the EDUCAUSE educational conference which took place locally in Orlando. I was speaking on my work with the LTI standard and the applications I have created for UCF. My first talk was amazing. It went as perfect as a presentation could go. My second talk though....it was my - [Friday Post: PiPlay 0.8 Beta 6](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2014/09/friday-post-piplay-0-8-beta-6/) - Hey All, If you've powered on your PiPlay today, you will notice an update is available! Updates: modified romlist layout to include area for game descriptions added 2 player controller config support added "button combo" support for PiPlay Menu actions optimization, screen updates only happen on controlled events removed horizontal romlist option in theme support - [Friday Post: Maker Faire and Kano Unboxing!](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2014/09/friday-post-maker-faire-and-kano-unboxing/) - Hey All, What a week. Maker Faire was amazing but exhausting! So many kids playing Street Fighter 2, and so many adults loving the nostalgia. It was a great time. Tons of 3D printers, awesome products, and great people all around. I hope you enjoy the gallery! I also received my Kano computing kit today. - [Friday Post: Tiny Vacation, Maker Faire Orlando, PiPlay](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2014/09/friday-post-tiny-vacation-maker-faire-orlando-piplay/) - Hey All, I apologize for not posting last week, I just needed to take a small break. Brain has been pretty fried. This weekend is the Orlando Maker Faire. This year marks the beginning of us being a full fledged Maker Faire, rather than just a Mini Maker Faire. It's kinda cool. I will be - [Friday Post: Updates, Winner, and shipping things](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2014/08/friday-post-updates-winner-and-shipping-things/) - Hey All, Happy Friday! To my fellow Americans, have a wonderful labor day weekend and enjoy the 3 day weekend. I should be relaxing! My team launched a very cool new program at the university after a year in development, and it's being used and we are getting results. It's so cool! I'm not relaxing - [Friday Post: Joystick Contest](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2014/08/friday-post-joystick-contest/) - Hey All, This week has been rough. Fall semester startup is always crazy, but this one was just over the top. Pushed a brand new application to production, and promptly discovered a slew of bugs that hadn't cropped up during testing. So many little fires being put out. As exhausting as it is, it's such a - [Friday Post: Kickstarter shipments](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2014/08/friday-post-kickstarter-shipments/) - Hey All, As I'm sure you're aware, I've been spending most of my time working on the PiPlay Kickstarter. This has involved ordering samples, getting materials, designing hardware, and all sorts of fun things that goes along with PiPlay the application. I'm really thankful to all the backers (and other supporters) who were able to - [Friday Post: PiPlay 0.8 Beta 5](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2014/08/friday-post-piplay-0-8-beta-5/) - Hey All, Happy Friday. One more week of break before the Fall semester starts up. It's going to be a busy month! I'm happy to announce that PiPlay 0.8 Beta 5 is being released. It should be available on SourceForge in a few hours. Fixes / Improvements: Smoother animations and framerate More optimizations Memory leak - [Friday Post: Book Review](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2014/08/friday-post-book-review/) - Hey All, So, this week K and I went on a last minute cruise to relax and get energized for the upcoming school year. It was a much needed vacation. During the cruise I ended up reading (and eating) a lot. Here are some of the things I read which I thought were great: Seconds - [Friday Post: Small and Large Updates](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2014/07/friday-post-small-and-large-updates/) - Hey All, A few good updates this week :) The PiPlay 0.8 Beta4 got a very small update (0.8b4.1) You can get it by selecting the update option. It fixes a few small config items, like the finalburn alpha emulator not looking for the proper config file, and Dgen missing the proper binary files. A - [Friday Post: Space Madness!](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2014/07/friday-post-space-madness/) - Hey All, For the first time in a long time I feel rested. I did a sleep study to find out why I was so fatigued all the time even though I was getting around 8 hours of sleep. ( I'm not counting that my other waking hours have been spent on the Kickstarter, PiPlay, - [Friday Post: PiPlay 0.8 Beta 4 Released!](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2014/07/friday-post-piplay-0-8-beta-4-released/) - Hello Everyone!!!! The latest version of PiPlay is available to download! Download - The image requires an 8GB SD Card This release has been a huge amount of work, from multiple people whom I consider friends. Artists, Testers, Family, Programmers, Designers. I appreciate all the help that went into this. From the Github stats: Excluding merges, 4 - [Friday Post: 4th Of July](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2014/07/friday-post-4th-of-july/) - Hey All, To my fellow Americans, Happy Independence Day. To everyone else, Happy 4th of July, because Friday's are awesome! PiPlay 0.8 Beta 4 is 99.9% done. I am doing some final testing, and it will be uploaded this weekend!! I'm excited and can't wait for everyone to try it out. Laser cutters are cool! - [Friday Post: PiPlay Video](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2014/06/friday-post-piplay-video/) - Hey All, Thought you would like to see this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3P-FS-aHE1Q The next release of PiPlay is so close I can taste it. A few notes: the final menu will load faster as I still have un-optimized images and debug code added. the controller config does more than the just the SNES, I just kept it - [Friday Post: Snow In June?!?](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2014/06/friday-post-snow-in-june/) - Hey All, For those who don't know, my day job involves creating tools and apps that help students and faculty at my university have a greater learning experience online. This week I was in Utah for an educational conference where I got to present on those tools. It was a very rewarding experience. It also - [Friday Post: Joysticks](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2014/06/friday-post-joysticks-2/) - Hey All, So, I've been looking at more joysticks, and I want to tell you about an experience I had with a cheap $15 Chinese joystick I imported. I buy a lot of items from China. This time it was a disaster. I believe I ended up inadvertently getting a return rather than new stock, - [Very Late Friday-ish Post: Compiling](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2014/06/very-late-friday-ish-post-compiling/) - Hey All, Sorry for the very late post, I've had some family visiting from out of town and spent the weekend catching up. For PiPlay, I've been spending some time getting into the nitty gritty of some of the emulators. PiFBA happens to have a config file hardcoded in it's source code. Because I use - [Friday Post: Joysticks!](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2014/05/friday-post-joysticks/) - Hello All! It has been a long week. I plan on sleeping until Sunday. PiPlay will be getting a joystick configuration utility in the next release. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adCxJmja7Fo Don't mind the placeholder graphics. The designer who did the PiPlay logo is making all the controller graphics to go in there :) The next release is coming - [Friday Post: BerryBoot Image](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2014/05/friday-post-berryboot-image/) - Hey all, Not much to report this week. Coding on the next release is coming along nicely. I have made a BerryBoot compatible image of the current release available to download here: http://pimame.org/releases/piplay-0.8-beta3-bb.img.7z I was interviewed by Circuit Cellar Magazine, which was pretty cool. The interview can be found here: http://circuitcellar.com/community/interviews/raspberry-pi-innovation/ Have a great weekend! - [Friday Post: Themes](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2014/05/friday-post-themes/) - Hey all, I've spent the past week on a lot of administrative PiPlay stuff, but I do have a couple of neat things to show. Theme Support Controller Config (very early) Big thanks to Matt from the forums for coding up the theme support and Dan for helping with the controller configuration. Desktop Arcade On - [Friday Post: FUNDED!](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2014/05/friday-post-funded/) - Hey All, Thank you so much for your backings and support. Over 400% funded! What did I do to celebrate? I got a delicious post-Kickstarter celebratory Icee :) Updates To keep you all updated on my progress, I created this: As I finish tasks (or add new ones) I will be updating this board (notice - [Friday Post: It's Over 9000!](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2014/05/friday-post-its-over-9000/) - The PiPlay Kickstarter has gone over $9000!!!! So far, we are working on theme support, joystick support, joystick configs, auto grabbing of game screen images, screen image previews, and more emulators. I've also started a joystick build so that I can test out different encoders easily. $30 for the encoder, joystick, and buttons from eBay. - [Friday Post: TechTime and things...](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2014/04/friday-post-techtime-and-things/) - Hey All, Just got back from a neat tech talk that was put on buy a bunch of alumni/coworkers. Some very cool things were shown, like Google Glass and Wearscript. Kickstarter & PiPlay 11 days to go, and I'm at 298% funded. This is crazy! PiPlay 0.8 Beta 3 was release to positive results, and - [Friday Post: PiPlay 0.8 Beta 3](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2014/04/friday-post-piplay-0-8-beta-3/) - Update: PiPlay 0.8 Beta 3 is uploaded! Lo all, It's been two weeks and my Kickstarter is at 242% funded!! This is incredible. I'm so excited and humbled at the community support. Thank you! PiPlay 0.8 Beta 3 I am uploading the latest SD Card image of PiPlay. 0.8 Beta 3 includes: Recompiled kernel with - [Friday Post: PyCon 2014 - Hello Montreal!](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2014/04/friday-post-pycon-2014-hello-montreal/) - Hey All! I'm in Montreal right now for the annual PyCon conference. I will be presenting PiMAME PiPLAY on Sunday during the poster presentations. I'm excited to be showing off the software and getting feedback from fellow Pythonistas. My flight in was horrible. Finding my way around Montreal was horrible. But now that I'm here and settled, - [PiMAME Kickstarter Launched!](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2014/04/pimame-kickstarter-launched/) - Hey all, PiMAME is now up on Kickstarter!!!! This will help me purchase new joysticks, encoder boards, and all the other things that I need to test with to make PiMAME even more awesome. Thank you all for helping me to make it this far. PiMAME Kickstarter -Shea - [Friday Post: Captain America!](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2014/04/friday-post-captain-america/) - Hey All, Made it with a few minutes to spare to do a Friday post, but I have a good reason. CAPTAIN AMERICA!!! Wooo! I love pretty much all things Marvel, and I was very happy with the sequel to the first Cap'n movie. Go see it, and wait till they very end, there are - [Friday Post: Framebuffer Copy and new PiMAME 8 beta release](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2014/03/friday-post-framebuffer-copy-and-new-pimame-8-beta-release/) - Hey All, Another week another PiMAME release :) This is beta 2 of the new PiMAME 0.8. I'm loving the feedback. I know there are bugs and issues, but I'm able to iterate so much faster now. This latest release includes: Added NES support again. Added C64 support again. Put back in restart, shutdown, and - [Neat Tron and Daftpunk inspired PiMAME bootsplash](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2014/03/neat-pimame-bootsplash/) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQp-SPPwSIo&feature=youtu.be Lazzarusbr posted this custom bootsplash video on the PiMAME forums the other day. It's so well done. I wish I could officially include this. I hope to see some more awesome bootsplash videos in the future. -Shea - [Friday Post: PiMAME Updater](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2014/03/friday-post-pimame-updater/) - Hey All, New week, new revisions to PiMAME 0.8. The new version of the frontend now includes: TankStick support. Numpad support. Shutdown, Restart, and Update commands. A notice in the menu when a new update is available. Please run the following on the command line: wget -O - http://pimame.org/update.sh | bash Have a great weekend - [1 year](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2014/03/1-year/) - Hey All, I can't believe it has been one year already since K and I got married. A year has flown by. To my wife, I love you, and too many more wonderful years going on silly adventures. -Shea - [Friday Post: Book Stats](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2014/03/friday-post-book-stats/) - Hey All, Happy Friday! I got an email this morning from Packt giving me the stats for my book sales from October to December of 2013. I'm happy to report that I have sold over 200 copies. Thank you all so much! This weekend I will be doing a last minute presentation of PiMAME with - [Friday Post: PiMAME 0.8 Update and some stats!](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2014/03/friday-post-pimame-0-8-update-and-some-stats/) - Hey All! First of all, HAPPY FRIDAY! Spring break is over for us at UCF, which means that campus won't be dead for us full time employees and the food court will finally be reopened. Little things in life... It's been a week since PiMAME 0.8 Beta 1 has been released and there has been - [Friday Post: PiMAME 0.8 coming this weekend!](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2014/02/pimame-0-8-coming-this-weekend/) - Update 3: PiMAME 0.8 Beta 1 now uploaded! Download Here! Update 2: Apparently 4 other people have reported issues this weekend with SourceForge and uploaded files not appearing. I'm starting a new upload to a different host now. Update: PiMAME 0.8 has been uploaded, but I'm still waiting for SourceForge to finish mirroring it before they - [Dino Horde ](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2014/02/dino-horde/) - [Friday Post: Gear](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2014/02/friday-post-gear/) - Hey all, Wooo it's Friday! Next week I'm speaking at UCF's Information Fluency conference. I'm very excited. Presenting an application I wrote that helps with Online Learning. Time to get to work on PiMAME. Making great progress. Can't wait to release it :D One of the issues I ran into was that I didn't realize - [Friday Post: Dogecoin USB Miner](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2014/02/friday-post-dogecoin-usb-miner/) - Hey All, This is the first Valentine's day I am celebrating with K as husband and wife. I am very lucky to have her, and knowing that she is reading this, I just want to say that you are my person and I love you very much! PiMAME is coming together. I am psyched to - [Friday Post: TGIF](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2014/02/friday-post-tgif/) - Hey All, Thank goodness it's Friday. I've been hit by the Flu, and it has knocked me on my butt. I haven't been able to do anything all week. I'm only now catching up on emails and some work. If I haven't responded on the forums or to an email, don't think im ignoring you, - [Friday Post: PiMAME 0.8 Preview Release (only for the brave)](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2014/01/friday-post-pimame-0-8-preview-release-only-for-the-brave/) - Hey All! Happy Friday! It has been a long week. The weather in Florida right now is crazy. One day it's 80 degrees, the next day its 50, then 70, then 40. I wish it would make up its mind! The bad part about it is everyone is getting sick. Anyways... PiMAME 0.8... ... preview - [Friday Post: PiMAME is coming...](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2014/01/friday-post-pimame-is-coming/) - Hey all, The new version of PiMAME is sooooo close to being released. Only a few little kinks to work out. I'm hoping to put out an alpha this weekend for those who are adventurous to try it out. All those who requested PiMAME stickers should have received them by now. If you have not - [Friday Post: Bitcoin, Litecoin...Dogecoin, oh my! A tutorial on how to use Dogecoin](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2013/12/friday-post-bitcoin-litecoin-dogecoin-oh-my-a-tutorial-on-how-to-use-dogecoin/) - Reliable Dogecoin Pool: https://pool.chunky.ms/doge/ Hey All, A bunch of my coworkers and I have been looking into crypto currencies for fun. Between figuring out who can get the most hashes per second, watching the markets, and just looking through the source code of the clients, it's been fun looking at it during out downtime. One - [Friday Post: January](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2014/01/friday-post-january/) - Hey All, It is the middle of January and it already feels like a year full of events has occurred. I turned 30. It's a weird feeling not being in my twenties anymore. It will take some getting used too. I spent my birthday with good friends. My new computer has been built and is - [Friday Post: Turning 30! Happy Birthday To Me!](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2014/01/friday-post-turning-30-happy-birthday-to-me/) - Hey All, So, I'm turning 30 this weekend. Crazy. I've decided to treat myself by building an awesome budget gaming PC. I haven't built a PC since the P4 days. Specs: Intel Haswell Core i5 3.2Ghz Quad Core 4GB Memory (upgrading to 8GB next paycheck) 120GB SSD ASUS B85M-G Motherboard (really nice!) NXXT Case (BEAUTIFUL - [Friday Post: Hello 2014](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2014/01/friday-post-hello-2014/) - Hello All, Happy 2014! Today I found out my blog post about dogecoin was featured on Adafruit :) I hope a bunch of readers got some good info from that. Over the holiday break my friend Zach and I have been working on the PiMAME Menu system. We got a lot done, and even though - [Friday Post: 2013](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2013/12/friday-post-2013/) - Hey All, Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas, Happy New Year!!! This year has been amazing to me. I owe a lot of it to my readers. Thank you. Got married! Wrote a book. Instant Raspberry Pi Gaming Got published in 2600: The Hacker Quarterly 30,000+ downloads of the PiMAME image Invited to speak at a few - [Friday Post: Speechless](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2013/12/friday-post-speechless/) - 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 - [Friday Post: Moved In?](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2013/12/friday-post-moved-in/) - 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 - [Friday Post: Joystick debugging](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2013/11/friday-post-joystick-debugging/) - 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 - [IAAPA 2013](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2013/11/iaapa-2013/) - [Friday Post: IAAPA 2013, Homeownership, and Happenings](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2013/11/friday-post-iaapa-2013-homeownership-and-happenings/) - 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. - [Friday Post: More PiMAME Menu stuff.](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2013/11/friday-post-more-pimame-menu-stuff/) - 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 - [Friday Post: Things to come!](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2013/11/friday-post-things-to-come/) - 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 - [Friday Post: Change the boot up logo](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2013/11/friday-post-change-the-boot-up-logo/) - 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 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUYyGKxp7Fw I am going to try this out with the PiMAME logo this weekend. Have a good weekend everyone! - [PiMAME 0.7.10 Uploaded](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2013/10/pimame-0-7-10-uploaded/) - PiMAME 0.7.10 has been uploaded. So, over the weekend we had a family emergency and had to drive across Florida. Everyone is ok. Everything is good. With all that stress, I apparently caught an ear infection and it has knocked me on my ass. I'm still feeling out of it, but I pushed the release - [Friday Post: Rough week but PiMAME 0.7.10 is coming!](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2013/10/friday-post-rough-week-but-pimame-0-7-10-is-coming/) - 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 - [Alpha Release of Full Speed Nintendo 64 Emulator on the Raspberry Pi](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2013/10/alpha-release-of-full-speed-nintendo-64-emulator-on-the-raspberry-pi/) - Hey All, Mupen64plus has been updated and now plays some N64 games at almost full speed! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMEhhIQqWJI Welshy from the Raspberry Pi forums has written up a great guide on how to compile it and run it, as well as how the settings work. You can download the compiled binaries here: http://sheasilverman.com/rpi/raspbian/mupen64plus-rpi.zip To install and - [Friday Post: Pokemon X and Y](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2013/10/friday-post-pokemon-x-and-y/) - 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 - [Friday Post: What's free time?](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2013/10/friday-post-whats-free-time/) - 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 - [Orlando Mini Maker Faire 2013 Photos](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2013/10/orlando-mini-maker-faire-2013-photos/) - Hey All, Here are some of the photos from the Orlando Mini Maker Faire. I didn't get a chance to walk around much as I was manning my booth but it was a really fun experience! Enjoy! -Shea - [Friday Post: Orlando Mini Maker Faire!](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2013/10/friday-post-orlando-mini-maker-faire/) - Hey All, Couple really cool things going on right now. First of all, I got the physical copy of my book in hand. I'm so proud! Also Adafruit linked to my blog. I was so surprised when I got the email, thanks for the link! This past week I've been having tons of meeting - [Friday Post: Raspberry Pi Gaming Published!](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2013/09/friday-post-raspberry-pi-gaming-published/) - Hey All, I have awesome news! My book, "Raspberry Pi Gaming" has been published this week. The eBook version is currently available on Amazon.com, and the hardcopy should be available next week. Raspberry Pi Gaming at Packt Publishing What you will learn from this book Install a Raspberry Pi operating system Set up PiMAME - [Adding a Startup Movie to your Raspberry Pi](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2013/09/adding-a-startup-movie-to-your-raspberry-pi/) - Hey All, So I've been playign with trying to do a boot image or a boot movie with the Raspberry Pi for a while now, and all the comments and tips keep going back to a tutorial on how to boot a static image. It works, but there are a lot of problems with it - [PiMAME Bootsplash Video (Preview)](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2013/09/pimame-bootsplash-video-preview/) - Hey All, The next release of PiMAME will have a bootsplash intro video. The way I am having it work it will be easy for anyone to modify and replace the video with a custom one of their own. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSyejmdZEh8 I am hoping that we can get a collection of neat startup vids going! Tutorial - [Friday Post: Editing](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2013/09/friday-post-editing/) - Hello All, This has been a fun week. Trying to fight of the germs going around now that everyone is settled into classes. This is usually when the colds start going around. A few coworkers are already coughing. I may need to put up a fort around my desk. On the plus side I am - [Friday Post: Raspberry Pi Happenings](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2013/09/friday-post-raspberry-pi-happenings/) - Hey All, Happy Friday! Long week. This week at work I learned how to deploy a Django app to an old Solaris server (Read: spent way too much time reading the error log because of incompatible SPARC modules). It was good though, because now I know of some really good debugging methods and have more - [Friday Post: PiMAME 0.7.9](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2013/09/friday-post-pimame-0-7-9/) - Hey All, PiMAME 0.7.9 PiMAME 0.7.9 is now uploaded to SourceForge A new release of PiMAME is being uploaded. This time it's 0.7.9, and the biggest edition is DGEN, a Sega Genesis emulator. PiSNES now supports 2 players, and the script was updated to not overwrite some of the config files. You can use the - [Friday Post: My book, Raspberry Pi Gaming, now available for pre-order!!](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2013/08/friday-post-my-book-raspberry-pi-gaming-now-available-for-pre-order/) - Hey All, Raspberry Pi Gaming So I have some amazing news! For a while now I have been working with Packt Publishing and writing my book, "Instant Raspberry Pi Gaming." Today the book is available to pre-order on Packt's website. The preorder is currently for the e-book version, but the hard copy will be available - [Friday Post: PiMAME 0.7.8 with NES Support](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2013/08/friday-post-pimame-0-7-8-with-nes-support/) - Edit: PiMAME 0.7.8 is now uploaded! Hey All! Happy Friday! First week of classes is over. Woo! PiMAME 0.7.8 is coming this weekend. The major enhancements are that NES emulation is supported through AdvMESS. I have also used the updated version of PiFBA which now has 2 player support. I hope you all enjoy it! - [Friday Post: Quiet](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2013/08/friday-post-quiet/) - Happy Friday! I feel like this Friday is the calm before the storm. This week has been a non stop roller coaster of events. Getting ready for the Fall semester is always a fun experience. Everyone is going in 100 different directions, yet all working together for the joint goal of making education better for - [N64 on the Raspberry Pi Preview](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2013/08/n64-on-the-raspberry-pi-preview/) - Hey All, Don't get your hopes up yet, as this is a very early build, but here is a video of me running Ocarina of Time on the Raspberry Pi: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osAqOHjeXkI Big thanks to HonkeyKong for his excellent work on porting this emulator! -Shea - [Friday Post: Semester Startup](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2013/08/friday-post-semester-startup/) - Hey All, Happy Friday! I have one week until the Fall semester starts at UCF. Everyone in our department is rushing to make sure we are all ready, everything is updated, and everybody's happy. I'm excited. I think this semester is going to be wonderful. Leap Motion Over the week I bought a Leap Motion - [Friday Post: PiMAME 0.7.7 Released!](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2013/08/friday-post-pimame-0-7-7-released/) - Hey All, I am happy to announce the release of PiMAME 0.7.7. This version includes: Latest version of Raspbian (7/26/2013) Final Burn Alpha CPS 1, CPS 2, NeoGeo, Cave, Sega System 16 emulation VICE Commodore 64 emulation xboxdrv installed and set to run at startup Changes to getip.sh which now show wifi addresses. Download it - [Awww Yiss!!! Marvel Vs. Capcom on the Raspberry Pi!](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2013/07/awww-yiss-marvel-vs-capcom-on-the-raspberry-pi/) - Hey All, Squid has released another awesome emulator port for the Raspberry Pi. This time it's Final Burn Alpha, which is a CPS1, CPS2, System 16, and NeoGeo emulator. Marvel Vs. Capcom runs great on it. Expect this to be in PiMAME ASAP! https://code.google.com/p/pifba/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BB7RufWCxoY You will also see I'm running it on a - [C64 Emulator for the Raspberry Pi](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2013/07/c64-emulator-for-the-raspberry-pi/) - C64 Emulator on Raspberry Pi Hey all, beta_tester from the PiMAME forums, posted a really awesome tutorial on how to install and configure VICE, the Commodore 64 emulator onto a Raspberry Pi. I will be including this in the next release of PiMAME, but for now, the instructions are available here: http://pimame.org/forum/discussion/382/how-to-installrun-c64-emulator-vice-on-your-pimame Enjoy some Oregon - [Friday Post: Book Reports](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2013/07/friday-post-book-reports/) - Excuse the delay, I've been having connection issues all day. Hey All! Happy Friday! This has been a trying week. The wife and I are now house hunting, and the endeavor has been...exhausting. Oh well. Onto some good stuff. Book Reports The book I am writing is currently at the review stage, which is awesome. - [Friday Post: Fun Week! Pacific Rim, Oculus Rift, and a Neat Pi Case](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2013/07/friday-post-fun-week-pacific-rim-oculus-rift-and-a-neat-pi-case/) - Hey all, This has been a fun week. Long, but fun. Pacific Rim If you haven't seen Pacific Rim yet, do yourself a favor and go see it. It will make your inner 12 year old boy very happy :) After watching the movie I had to pick up the Gipsy Danger Jaeger action figure: - [Berrybootable PiMAME Test Image](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2013/07/berrybootable-pimame-test-image/) - Hey All, I got a few requests for a BerryBoot image of PiMAME. I followed the instructions and generated an image that should be compatible. I haven't had a chance to test it yet since I don't have a Pi with BerryBoot installed. You can get the image here: http://sheasilverman.com/rpi/pimame-0.7.6-berryboot.img This is version 0.7.6. Please let - [Friday Post: PiMAME 0.7.6 now with Gameboy support!](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2013/07/friday-post-pimame-0-7-6-now-with-gameboy-support/) - Hey all, I felt bad about the delay with PiMAME 0.7.5 so I'm releasing the next version early. New Features: gpsp - Gameboy Advance Emulator Gearboy - Gameboy and Gameboy Color emulator ScummVM - A point and click adventure game engine. If you are running version 0.7 or above, just run the ./update.sh script to - [PiMAME 0.7.5 uploaded!](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2013/07/pimame-0-7-5-uploaded/) - PiMAME 0.7.5 has been uploaded. It now includes Stella, the Atari 2600 emulator and Cavestory. I'm already working on PiMAME 0.7.6 which will include ScummVM and Gearboy, the Gameboy / Gameboy Color emulator. PiMAME available here now! - [Friday Post: Conference Talk](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2013/07/friday-post-conference-talk/) - Hey all, For the past 2 months I've been heading up a small technical conference with my department. We have done small 1 hour sessions before, but this was a lofty experiment. 14 talks, 5 hours, 2 tracks, with no budget. It was a resounding success! The Techrangers at UCF put on the Extended Tech - [Friday Post: PiMAME 0.7.5](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2013/06/friday-post-pimame-0-7-5/) - EDIT: Really sorry guys, I found a show stopping bug while uploading. I had to cancel it. I'm really sorry. It'll be up soon. Hey everyone, I'm happy to announce that I'm releasing the new PiMAME image this weekend. I will be uploading it tonight and it should be on sourceforge asap. The new features include: - [Internet Famous](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2013/06/internet-famous/) - I know I've hit the big time. Someone called me a douche bag on the internet! - [Friday Post: Telepresence Robots!](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2013/06/friday-post-telepresence-robots/) - Hey All, First off, no PiMAME this week. Still working out bugs. It'll be soon I promise :) I'm 99% done with my book. Content is all done!! Woo! Now I'm just working on the preface. I'm really excited to get back the edited version and do the final touches :D :D Mike Dicillo created - [Friday Post: Coming soon, PiMAME 0.8](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2013/06/friday-post-coming-soon-pimame-0-8/) - Hey All, What a hectic week. I've been working on the second half of my book, doing a ton of stuff at work, AND working on PiMAME 0.8 :) New features to come in PiMAME 0.8: gpiokey drivers dispmanx cavestory dgen (Genesis) advancemess (NES woo!) I'm hoping to get it done this weekend, and I'll - [Friday Post: Hardware](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2013/06/friday-post-hardware/) - Hey All, This week has been kinda awesome and frustrating at the same time. We had an issue crop up at work that dealt with some legacy app, and it was a part of the system no one had ventured in for a long time. Needless to say around 3pm today, after a whole week - [Memory Sale](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2013/06/memory-sale/) - Amazon is having a massive sale on SanDisk memory today only. I'm picking up some SD Cards. Hope this is of value for some people. -She - [Friday Post: Writing is Exhausting!](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2013/05/friday-post-writing-is-exhausting/) - Hey All, Writing is exhausting, and tough, and mentally taxing. I love it, but wow, this is a new experience I don't really have any updates for this week. I know Nick_Tones is anxiously awaiting more PiMAME stuff. I'm sorry I don't have anything this week. There was an askreddit thread earlier this week about what do people do - [Friday Post: More Neat Things!](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2013/05/friday-post-more-neat-things/) - Hey all, Another long week over here. I'm glad we have a 3 day weekend, because I could use it. Going to sleep until Monday I think :) Anyways, onto the fun stuff! Book So, I've been waiting ages to announce this. I have been tapped by a publishing company to write a book about - [Friday Post: Neat Things](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2013/05/friday-post-neat-things/) - Hey All, It has been a long week. Star Trek Into Darkness was AMAZING! Go see it now. Stop reading. Go to your theater, watch it, then come back here and finish reading. It was that good. SanderSiezen has made a really slick cocktail arcade cabinet, powered by PiMAME. His entire build log has been - [Raspberry Pi Camera Quick Look](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2013/05/raspberry-pi-camera-quick-look/) - Hey All, I got my Raspberry Pi Camera board in the mail today! It was very easy to install. The hardest part was waiting for apt-get upgrade to complete. After that was done, a new camera option is available in raspi-config, and some new applications are available to run. The apps are raspivid and raspistill, - [Cooling a Raspberry Pi with Liquid Nitrogen](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2013/05/cooling-a-raspberry-pi-with-liquid-nitrogen/) - Ok, this is seriously cool! (no pun intended) The folks at linkxs.org decided to try running a Raspberry Pi under liquid nitrogen, and seeing how it performed. Like a beast apparently! It runs pretty stable at -100C. The ethernet port is only rated to 0C, so the fact that it still worked and they could stay SSHed into - [Raspberry Pi Camera Module Now Available!](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2013/05/raspberry-pi-camera-module-now-available/) - Hey All, The Raspberry Pi Camera Module is now available for sale from element14! http://www.newark.com/raspberry-pi/rpi-camera-board/add-on-brd-camera-module-raspberry/dp/69W0689?Ntt=pi+camera It's $25 and it was about $6 for shipping to Florida. Have fun! -Shea - [Friday Post: PiMAME with SNES Support](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2013/05/friday-post-pimame-with-snes-support/) - Update: Sorry for the delay, found a small bug and had to fix it. The new version is uploaded now! Get PiMAME 0.7 now! Hey all, A new image of PiMAME is being uploaded. I will update this post with the link once the upload is complete. This new version will include MAME4All and AdvanceMAME, - [Lifehacker Raspberry Pi](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2013/05/lifehacker-raspberry-pi/) - Hey All, LifeHacker has put up a really cool guide on how to install RetroPie on your Raspberry Pi. http://lifehacker.com/how-to-turn-your-raspberry-pi-into-a-retro-game-console-498561192 Have a great night! -Shea - [Friday Post: The Pi Hut](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2013/05/friday-post-the-pi-hut/) - Hey all, Sorry for the lateness, I went and saw Iron Man 3 last night and got home late. Go see Iron Man 3. If you liked the first two movies, you will like the third. I thought it was great. A fun announcement: The Pi Hut is now selling SD Cards with PiMAME preloaded on - [PiMAME Installer Script](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2013/04/pimame-installer-script/) - Hey everyone! PiMAME Installer I have just released the first version of the PiMAME Installer Script. This script will allow you to turn any Raspbian install into a PiMAME installation. It includes the ability to update installations (and to remove PiMAME if you wish :( ... ) You can find it on Github at: https://github.com/ssilverm/pimame_installer I - [Friday Post: Mausberry Circuits Raspberry Pi Power Switch](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2013/04/friday-post-mausberry-circuits-raspberry-pi-power-switch/) - Hey All, First of all I am happy to say that I aced my course this semester. Woo! It's weird having free time again. Going to be really focusing on PiMAME. Onto the cool stuff... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cj6OgDXFSag So, I got my Mausberry Circuits Raspberry Pi Power Switch in the mail this week. I linked to the Kickstarter - [Friday Post: Raspberry Pi Model A and New PCSX_ReARMed Binaries](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2013/04/friday-post-raspberry-pi-model-a-and-new-pcsx_rearmed-binaries/) - Hey all, I got my Raspberry Pi Model A in this week. I haven't had the chance to put the board through it's paces yet. I was a little surprised to see they are only shipping with 256MB of RAM, as I figured it would cost more to keep two supplies of RAM chips - [PiMAME 0.6 Beta 5 - Now with PlayStation support!](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2013/04/pimame-0-6-beta-5-now-with-playstation-support/) - Hey all, PiMAME 0.6 Beta 5 Available http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Humd2k2wnM8 Sorry to release another image so quickly but I figure this is a good reason. PCSX_ReARMed is working beautifully on the command line, with sound, and at 99% speed. So I added it to PiMAME. You can now play PlayStation games on your Raspberry Pi. I've tested - [Raspberry Pi Model A in stock at Element 14](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2013/04/raspberry-pi-model-a-in-stock-at-element-14/) - Hey All, The Raspberry Pi Model A board is in stock at Element 14 for US orders. http://www.newark.com/jsp/bespoke/bespoke7.jsp?bespokepage=newark/en_US/landing/raspberry-pi/rasp-pi-accessories.jsp&ICID=HP-Raspberrypi-Accessories I ordered one and hope to have some hi res pictures available once it arrives. -Shea - [Friday Post: PiMAME 0.6 Beta 4](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2013/04/friday-post-pimame-0-6-beta-4/) - Hey All, I'm happy to announce PiMAME 0.6 Beta 4! You will need a 4GB SD Card for this release. The updates and new items required a bump in space. This release includes: Neo Geo support with the GNGeo emulator!!! (Full Speed and Audio) Neo Geo roms and bios are stored in the same Roms - [SDL Keymappings](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2013/04/sdl-keymappings/) - Hey All, I've been trying to get the Tankstick working with GNGeo recently, and the issue that has been cropping up is that the Tankstick by default uses LeftCtrl, LeftAlt, and Space for the top row of buttons. This would be fine if I could just specify that, but the GNGeo config file (gngeorc) needs - [PiMAME Stickers!](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2013/04/pimame-stickers/) - Hey All! PiMAME stickers came in! They are really small but awesome! I'm giving out 10 of them here on my blog. Post a picture of you using PiMAME and I'll ship one out to you. -Shea - [Broken glasses and a new use for Instamorph](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2013/04/broken-glasses-and-a-new-use-for-instamorph/) - Hey all, While getting dressed this morning one of the stems on my glasses snapped in half. You'd think I would have a spare set somewhere, but nope. No spare. I am really happy this didn't happen while on my honeymoon! I could not find any tape, and I wasn't sure what to do, when - [PiMAME has a logo!](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2013/04/pimame-has-a-logo/) - Hey All, A friend of mine, Charlie, just finished the logo for PiMAME! Hope you all like it. -Shea - [Friday Post: 2600 The Hacker Quarterly](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2013/04/friday-post-2600-the-hacker-quarterly/) - Hey All, I have been keeping this tightly guarded for about 6 months now and I am VERY EXCITED to announce that an article I wrote entitled "Hacking, Learning, and the Raspberry Pi" has been published by the 2600: The Hacker Quarterly. The spring was released today and it is very exciting seeing my name - [Back!](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2013/03/back/) - Hey All, The wedding was awesome. I'm officially married! We just got back from our week long honeymoon. We cruised the caribbean. It was beautiful. I have some great pictures to upload later. I just launched pimame.org . It's the official site for PiMAME, as well as the PiMAME Forums. Enjoy everyone! -Shea - [Friday Post: Getting Married!](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2013/03/friday-post-getting-married/) - Hi all! I am very proud to announce that I am getting married tomorrow. I am very excited to be spending the rest of my life with the person I love. This is a really exciting time in my life. I couldn't be happier I have a wonderful bride, many projects, friends and family, health, - [PiMAME 0.6 Beta 3 now available.](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2013/03/pimame-0-6-beta-3-now-available/) - Hey All, PiMAME 0.6 Beta 3 is now available. This is primarily a test to see if those who were affected by the booting issues has been resolved. This is an image with updated firmware. Please let me know if this works or doesn't. Thanks! -Shea - [PiMAME: Booting Issues](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2013/03/pimame-booting-issues/) - I think I have figured out the booting issues. PiMAME 0.6 Beta 3 will be uploaded today. Thanks for the feedback! -Shea - [Video from PyCon 2013](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2013/03/video-from-pycon-2013/) - Here are two of the videos I took at PyCon 2013: An Incrementing Nixie Clock: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryPCA1m6Lw8&feature=youtu.be Here is Conway's Game of Life being run in Minecraft on the Raspberry Pi. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qz_y6B-K6-0 This was made by Chuck Thier and his code is available at: https://github.com/creiht/pilife -Shea - [Pictures from PyCon 2013](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2013/03/pictures-from-pycon-2013/) - Here are pictures from PyCon 2013! I am so jet lagged. Hope you enjoy! -Shea - [Saturday Post: PyCon 2013 Redux!](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2013/03/saturday-post-pycon-2013-redux/) - Hey all, hoping not to make [Saturday Posts] tags a habit but I feel bad that the wireless ate my last post :( So PyCon is going amazingly well. I have seen some amazing talks, I gave a small talk about PiMAME for 15 minutes in the Raspberry Pi lab. Everyone who attended got a - [Friday Post: PyCon 2013!](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2013/03/friday-post-pycon-2013/) - Apparently the wireless at PyCon ate my post and it didn't actually get saved or posted last night :( This is what I could recover: ----------- Hey All, I'm sorry for the late post. This time change is killer. I am in California right now attending PyCon for my University. It was a whole day - [PiMAME code on GitHub](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2013/03/pimame-code-on-github/) - Hey All, I've put my PiMAME code and configurations on GitHub for anyone to look at, check out, fork, make improvements, etc, etc. If you check out menu.py, you will see that I have a new line item for RetroPie / EmulationStation. I am testing it out in addition to AdvanceMAME. Enjoy! https://github.com/ssilverm/PiMAME -Shea - [New Release From The Grammar Club](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2013/03/new-release-from-the-grammar-club/) - Shael Riley and Beefy from The Grammar Club have just released their new album. I'm friends with Shael and am a huge fan of Nerdcore. I hope you enjoy! http://thegrammarclub.bandcamp.com/ - [Friday Post: Everyone Here Rocks!](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2013/03/friday-post-everyone-here-rocks/) - Hey All, What a week. I've been working on a presentation for the University, finally showed it off, got a ton of good jobs and awesome work. Feels like a weight was lifted. I don't know if we will move forward with the idea, but it's been fun so far. Next week I will be - [PiMAME 0.6 Beta 2](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2013/03/pimame-0-6-beta-2/) - Hey All, Thanks for the heads up on some of the issues. PiMAME 0.6 Beta 2 is now available. Please let me know how it works out for you!!! Get PiMAME 0.6 Beta 2 -Shea - [Friday Post: PiMAME 0.6 Beta](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2013/03/friday-post-pimame-0-6-beta/) - Beta2 is now up! You guys rock! I know about the slowness. Working on a Beta2 right now! Sorry for the late post, I have been waiting on the new image to upload to my web host. Hey All! Today is the 1 year anniversary of the Raspberry Pi's launch. I'm really proud of the - [PiMAME, AdvanceMAME, and AdvanceMENU Tankstick Configuration](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2013/02/pimame-advancemame-and-advancemenu-tankstick-configuration/) - edit: Added dual stick configuration to advmame.rc Hey all, Here is a working config for the XGaming X-Arcade Tankstick! The base of this comes from the very helpful site: http://www.raspberry.cat/20130203/pimame-i-x-arcade/ The first step is to edit /etc/rc.local and include this line before "exit 0": for tty in /dev/tty?; do /usr/bin/setleds -D +num < "$tty"; done I've - [Book Review: Python For Kids](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2013/02/book-review-python-for-kids/) - Hey All, I met No Starch Press at PyCon 2012 where they were showing off chapters of their then upcoming book, Python For Kids by Jason R. Briggs. I was talking to them and expressed interest in getting a copy for the students in my department at the University. At the end of December the - [Friday Post: Baked Raspberry Pi](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2013/02/friday-post-baked-raspberry-pi/) - Full Disclosure: Seeed Studio sent me the Wireless Charging Module for free because I entered their reviewer contest. Hey All, So I said I had some cool hardware to show off today, and here it is: Seeed Studio's Wireless Charging Module This kit uses inductive charging to transfer power "wirelessly" from one coil to the other. You - [3Doodler and Raspberry Pi On-Off Switch](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2013/02/3doodler-and-raspberry-pi-on-off-switch/) - Hey All, You all know I'm a huge Kickstarter fan. This week has proved to be an awesome time for projects (and a sad day for my wallet). Two projects caught my eye, the first one is the 3Doodler. The 3Doodler is a hot-glue-gun like device that uses a plastic extruder to create 3D shapes - [Quick List of Raspberry Pi Disk Images](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2013/02/quick-list-of-raspberry-pi-disk-images/) - Hey all, A fellow Redditor , jfOIhe7Fl, has made a cool website which keeps track of pre-made Raspberry Pi Disk Images. The site is available here: http://raspberrypidiskimages.com/ and the Reddit thread is here: http://www.reddit.com/r/raspberry_pi/comments/18n9w4/quick_list_of_raspberry_pi_disk_images/ There are some good ones in there, including PiMAME ;) Hope you all enjoy it! -Shea - [Friday Post: Pebble](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2013/02/friday-post-pebble/) - Hey All, I want to start this by saying I LOVE Kickstarter. I have funded many projects, most have succeeded some have been delayed, some are still in the will it succeed or will it fail phase. I really like the Kickstarter model. It's not a store. It's a risk vs reward for the backers, and - [Minecraft for the Raspberry Pi officially released!](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2013/02/minecraft-for-the-raspberry-pi-officially-released/) - Minecraft for the Raspberry Pi has been officially released today! More information is available at: http://pi.minecraft.net/ Direct Download Link (minecraft-pi-0.1.1.tar.gz) Enjoy! -Shea - [Friday Post: Warm Bodies and Instamorph](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2013/02/friday-post-warm-bodies-and-instamorph/) - Hey All, Happy Friday! I am going to spend most of tomorrow in bed. I'm beat. Grad School is great, but exhausting. Working full time, school, and hobbies (plus my upcoming wedding) is insane. And yet, I LOVE every second of it. Warm Bodies Tonight I had a well deserved date night with the fiancee. - [Friday Post: Nano Quadcopter](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2013/02/friday-post-nano-quadcopter/) - Hey All, Not much to write about this week. Halfway through the Python for Kids book, will be writing a full review once I get through it all. My graduate course is ramping up, but I'm still loving it. Working out the kinks on the Tankstick, like the fact that when I tried to play - [Video of XArcade Stick Working with the Raspberry Pi](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2013/01/video-of-xarcade-stick-working-with-the-raspberry-pi/) - Hey All, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VanNTcAhMz4&feature=youtu.be Real quick, just wanted to show a very rough video of me using the XArcade Tankstick on the Raspberry Pi. I have the Trackball, Buttons and Joysticks all working. Gridlee has issues with it (has to have custom inputs set) but Street Fighter 2 and Missile Command worked "out-of-the-box". I had to make a minor - [PIP and Sheacob.com](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2013/01/pip-and-sheacob-com/) - Hey All, Today I'm pleased to introduce a partner site of mine. Sheacob.com is a collaborative blog between myself and my friend + coworker Jacob Bates. Jacob is a coder, photographer, embedded electronics enthusiast, and an all around good guy. We have been working together on some projects for the past year, and are finally making a - [Friday Post: Little Boards](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2013/01/friday-post-little-boards/) - Hey all, I've been anxiously awaiting some voltage regulator boards I ordered from eBay for the past 2 weeks. It seems they all came from China and all got here within a day or two of each other. It's kinda neat to see how each came packaged differently, through different mail systems, but yet all - [PiMAME 0.5 Beta Release](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2013/01/pimame-0-5-beta-release/) - Hey all, This is just for testing purposes, but if you like to live on the cutting edge, I'm making available the beta/pre-release/testing release of PiMAME 0.5! It's based off the PiMAME 0.3 image, with the Uploader file size limit set to 200MB, and the Snapshot artwork in AdvMENU. Let me know if you have - [X-Arcade Tankstick Unboxing](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2013/01/x-arcade-tankstick-unboxing/) - Hey all, My new Tankstick arrived today, courtesy of XGaming.com. They have asked me to test it and get it running on the Raspberry Pi. I only had a couple minutes to play with it, but I made a little unboxing video for everyone: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYrYR0aa-Pg Size comparison of the Pi versus a Tankstick: This thing - [Friday Post: Advance .debs](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2013/01/friday-post-advance-debs/) - Hey all, New Debs! I have the latest AdvanceMENU, AdvanceMESS, and AdvanceMAME versions compiled and turned into .debs for your installing pleasure. Files: AdvanceMAME 1.2 AdvanceMENU 2.6 AdvanceMESS 0.102 To install, run these commands: sudo dpkg --force-overwrite -i advancemame_1.2-1_armhf.deb sudo dpkg --force-overwrite -i advancemenu_2.6-1_armhf.deb sudo dpkg --force-overwrite -i advancemess_0.102.0.1-1_armhf.deb The reason dpkg requires force install is because the - [PiMAME 0.4](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2013/01/pimame-0-4/) - Update: I have received numerous reports that this version is much slower than the previous one. I am reverting back to the previous Raspbian for PiMAME 0.5. That should fix the speed issues. The new release will be up this week. Thank you for all the feedback. Hey All, I am pleased to announce PiMAME 0.4 is - [Friday Post: Happy Birthday To Me!!](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2013/01/friday-post-happy-birthday-to-me/) - Happy Friday Everyone!!! Happy Birthday To Me Tomorrow is my birthday. I am looking forward to celebrating with a ton of friends. I feel like the past year has been amazing to me. Great job, great coworkers, great fiancee, great projects, everything is going great ;) I am looking forward to what this year is - [Pleasant Surprise, New version of AdvanceMAME was released](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2013/01/pleasant-surprise-new-version-of-advancemame-was-released/) - Hey All, I received a pleasant surprise this weekend. A new version of AdvanceMAME and AdvanceMENU was released by the author. I am currently compiling it and testing it out. It is still based on MAME 0.106. This is going to push back the PiMAME 0.4 release as I want to incorporate these new binaries into it. You can - [Friday Post: First post of 2013!](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2013/01/friday-post-first-post-of-2013/) - Hey all, Happy New Year! Welcome to 2013 :) On Monday Element14 will have more Raspberry Pi's in stock. Get your credit cards ready. I will also be taking my first graduate course that same day. I am very happy and looking forward to working on my masters degree. I now have a USB gamepad - [Raspberry Pi Powered SNES](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2012/12/raspberry-pi-powered-snes/) - Hey All, HAPPY NEW YEAR! This is what I assume to be the last post of 2012. Might as well end it with a bang :) A fellow member of FamiLAB (Orlando's Hackerspace) has made a great write-up of his Raspberry Pi powered SNES. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpQySI2b_cM I have been watching Ted (Waterbury) work on this project for the - [Friday Post: Relaxing Week](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2012/12/friday-post-relaxing-week/) - Hey All, Very short Friday Post. I've been on vacation since Christmas. My promotion goes into effect next week, and I start my graduate program the following week. I am enjoying this vacation because it is probably going to be the last free time I get until the next semester. Now to sleep until Sunday - [Clamps as a monitor stand](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2012/12/clamps-as-a-monitor-stand/) - Hey All, I learned this little trick at FamiLAB (Orlando's hacker space). I have a really nice monitor that I bought second hand. It's only issue is that it doesn't have a stand. Easy $5 solution is to use a C Clamp at the base of the monitor. Safe, Stable, Secured. -Shea - [Happy Holidays! PiMAME 0.3 Released!](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2012/12/happy-holidays-pimame-0-3-released/) - Happy Holidays Everyone! I wish everyone a happy and a healthy. To celebrate the holidays I am proud to present the release of PiMAME 0.3 Features: AdvMENU theme with IP address in the background Web Front-End which enables uploading of ROMs from your computer to the Raspberry Pi Sound Fixes To access the web front - [Friday Post: PiMAME bandwidth and DeskCade photoshoot!](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2012/12/friday-post-pimame-bandwidth-and-deskcade-photoshoot/) - Happy Friday All!!!! I am off work until the New Year!! I think I'm going to sleep until Sunday :) First things first. Happy Holidays and an early Happy New Year to all my readers. All of you have been awesome. Thank you for all the comments. PiMAME Updates I have used up over 100GB - [PiMAME quick fixes and information](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2012/12/pimame-quick-fixes-and-information/) - Hey all, I've been getting tons of feedback about PiMAME. Thank you for all the comments and suggestions. There have been a few issues/questions that have popped up, hopefully the tips below helps you out. Here is a quick fix for the AdvanceMENU sound issue: ssh into your Raspberry Pi. exit out of AdvanceMENU by - [Friday Post: PiMAME Image and other neat things](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2012/12/friday-post-pimame-image-and-other-neat-things/) - Hey All, Hope you all like this: PiMAME Download Here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyj-a1OqA-w This is a fully configured Raspberry Pi image that auto boots into AdvanceMENU and runs your MAME games for you. It includes a copy of a Free MAME ROM so you can see it working right from the start. SSH is already enabled, memory - [Trying out Akismet](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2012/12/trying-out-akismet/) - Hey all, For the past week I've been getting hit by HORRIBLE blog spam. If anyone needs to know where to buy fake rolex watches and purses, I have about 400 comments in my spam folder that I can send you. I used a simple math captcha, which had worked for almost 6 months, but - [Friday Post: Sadness](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2012/12/friday-post-sadness/) - Hey all, This past week has been very hard. My cousins lost their Step-Father last weekend, and my best friend lost her Dad on Tuesday. I am at a loss for words for this weeks post. To anyone else in this kind of situation, just remember that it's OK to feel how you feel. -Shea - [Friday Post: Push It!](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2012/11/friday-post-push-it/) - Hey all, This has been a LONG week. Wednesday we pushed to production our new code base that we had been working on all semester. This is an internal productivity app that is used by everyone in our department, so it's kind of a big deal. It was exhausting. Did some long shifts back to - [Nexus 4 In Stock Checker](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2012/11/nexus-4-in-stock-checker/) - Hey all, A coworker of mine has setup a website dedicated to telling you if/when the Nexus line of devices from Google are in stock. If you are trying to get a Nexus 4, this may be the best way! http://ianturgeon.com/nexus4status/ Enjoy! - [Remember to install gcc-4.7 AND g++-4.7 on new installs](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2012/11/remember-to-install-gcc-4-7-and-g-4-7-on-new-installs/) - Hey All, This is mostly for my own sanity / memory, but I just spent 2 hours wondering why I kept getting fcntl.h and OpenGL/gl.h errors whenever I tried to ./configure some packages. I forgot to install g++-4.7. Hope this helps someone else. - [Raspberry Pi and MAME Part 2](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2012/06/raspberry-pi-and-mame-part-2/) - THIS IS AN OLD POST! Please go to the latest update here! Hello everyone from raspberrypi.org! Thanks for visiting, more updated tutorials and binaries are available by clicking the menu item Raspberry Pi Gaming! UPDATE: New Raspbian Binaries Available (new binaries above) So I've spent even more time playing around with my MAME compile and - [Minecraft on Raspberry Pi...it's coming!!!](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2012/11/minecraft-on-raspberry-pi-its-coming/) - Hey All, Dan Frisk just announced via Twitter and at Minecon that Minecraft for the Raspberry Pi is in the works. It's coming! It's going to be based on the PE edition that runs on Android / iOS. This is awesome news. - [Friday Post: Happy beginning of the holidays!](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2012/11/friday-post-happy-beginning-of-the-holidays/) - Hello All, Happy beginning of the holidays. Thanksgiving, Black Friday, Cyber Monday... To all my friends here in the US, I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving. I spent some great time with my family. To all my friends in other countries, I hope you are having a wonderful week :) Raspberry Pi Camera The - [Friday Post Part 2: Disney's Wreck-It Ralph DeskCade](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2012/11/friday-post-part-2-disneys-wreck-it-ralph-deskcade/) - Hey All, So here is why I need to do a two part post today...I was asked to make a Wreck-It Ralph DeskCade for Disney!!!! This is so cool and I'm really excited with how it turned out. I'm really looking forward to this project and I hope my readers are as well. -Shea Sign - [Friday Post: IAAPA 2012](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2012/11/friday-post-iaapa-2012/) - Hey All, This is going to be one of two posts since they both deserve their own highlight! Today I went to the IAAPA Expo (International Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions). It's a huge event filled with food, video games, attractions, rides, and more. I got to see the latest developments in gaming and - [Friday Post: Exciting News to come soon!](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2012/11/friday-post-exciting-news-to-come-soon/) - Hey All, It's been an exciting week. Pushed new code to our QA servers which has taken up most of my time. Been doing late shifts and weekend shifts to make sure everything works. I've also been tapped to be a Technical Reviewer of a book, so that has taken up some time. And I also have - [Friday Post: Wreck It Ralph!](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2012/11/friday-post-wreck-it-ralph/) - Happy Friday everyone! I just got back from seeing Wreck-It Ralph and here's my verdict: Go see it right now. Not only was it a great story, it was a great homage to the entire gaming industry. Today I also got an iPad Mini. I have an iPhone 4S and love it. At work I - [AdvanceMAME .deb](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2012/10/advancemame-deb/) - UPDATE: Debs with Sound now available here Hey All, It's been a long time coming. Between work, prototyping, other complications I present the AdvanceMAME Debian package. I was able to get past the issue with AdvanceMAME compiling on Raspbian. It's the sh2 processor for the Saturn, so I had to disable that. After that, it - [Better AdvanceMAME debs with Sound!](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2012/11/better-advancemame-debs-with-sound/) - Hey All, I have an updated set of AdvanceMAME debs. This time there is sound, and a lot of the stupid tricks I had to do to compile have been resolved. It ended up being a libsdl issue and an older version of GCC. Please uninstall the older .deb by entering this command: sudo dpkg - [Friday Post: One step forward, two steps back](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2012/10/friday-post-one-step-forward-two-steps-back/) - Hey all, So I got MAME compiled. The performance took a HUGE nosedive. Whereas before SF2 was playing flawlessly, it now looks like a slideshow. I'm going to work on it some more. Sorry for the huge delay in these Debs. I'm getting much closer! I found some 18mm buttons for my DeskCade project. I'm - [AdvanceMAME compilations issues on Raspbian [SOLVED]](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2012/10/advancemame-compilations-issues-on-raspbian-solved/) - Hey all, If anyone is having compilation issues of AdvanceMAME on Raspbian, here is the relativly simple fix: Change the line: CONF_CFLAGS_OPT= -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-merge-constants -Wall -Wno-sign-compare -Wno-unused to CONF_CFLAGS_OPT= -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-merge-constants -Wall -Wno-sign-compare -Wno-unused in your Makefile. .Debs to be released shortly now that this is sorted! - [Friday Post: New Pi and Deb Beta Users Wanted!](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2012/10/friday-post-new-pi-and-deb-beta-users-please/) - Happy Friday Everyone! It's been a fun week over here. I was able to order my 512MB Raspberry Pi from Element 14, and it arrived on Wednesday. Protip: Call Element 14 when they have stock and you will get it really really fast. Some high quality shots below: I've been working on my Mini Arcade - [Raspberry Pi with 512MB RAM starting to appear? Update: Yep](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2012/10/raspberry-pi-with-512mb-ram-starting-to-appear/) - Update: Yep! It's official. Just bought mine from Element14. http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=19963 Looks like element14 may be producing Raspberry Pi's with a 512MB RAM module rather than the current 256MB. Very interesting :) - [Friday Post: Mini Cab in Orlando Sentinel](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2012/10/friday-post-mini-cab-in-orlando-sentinel/) - Happy Friday Everyone! I got an email this morning from the Orlando Sentinel that the interview with the Raspberry Pi foundation at FamiLAB was ready. I have a small part in it, as you will see :) http://www.orlandosentinel.com/videogallery/72853227/News/FLA360-Raspberry-Pi-Foundation-s-Eben-Upton It has been an exciting two weeks, busy, but exciting. I have not had time to work - [Today is 10/11/12!](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2012/10/today-is-101112/) - Today is 10/11/12!! Just had to share that! - [Friday(ish) Post: Hanging out with Eben and Liz](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2012/10/fridayish-post-hanging-out-with-eben-and-liz/) - Hey all, Sorry for the late post. The past two days have been jam packed and I had limited internet access. Friday and Saturday I was at Magic Ruby. It was a Ruby conference at the Walt Disney World Hollywood Studios park. I'm still decompressing from the conference, so I'm not ready to make a - [Preview: Raspberry Pi Arcade Cabinet](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2012/10/preview-raspberry-pi-arcade-cabinet/) - EDIT: Now with Video! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLTvTxidc-s Been working on this for a bit. I now have limited access to a Laser Cutter. This mini Raspberry Pi Arcade Machine I made is so cool. The initial SVG came from here: http://www.ponoko.com/design-your-own/products/arcade-cabinet-enclosure-7231. I had to modify the holes for the slab of wood I was using and the screen - [Friday Post: Anniversary](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2012/09/friday-post-anniversary/) - This is a short post because I am celebrating our anniversary with my fiancee :) I will make up for it by posting tomorrow. Also, to anyone in Orlando, FL, Eben and Liz from Raspberry Pi will be at the FamiLAB Hackerspace next Friday, October 5th 2012. - [Making Deb Files](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2012/09/making-deb-files/) - I'm currently working on making .deb files for all the emulators. I'm also recompiling all the source code on the latest version of Raspbian. I'm hoping that will solve some issues people have been running into lately. More updates to follow :) - [Friday Post: Adafruit and Black Mesa](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2012/09/friday-post-adafruit-and-black-mesa/) - Hey all, It's been a fun week. I have been playing a LOT of Black Mesa on Steam. If you have never played Half Life then I recommend you pick up this great fan remake of the original game. If you HAVE played Half Life then you need to play this game and see how - [New Raspbian Release - Better WiFi, Audio, and Overclocking](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2012/09/new-raspbian-release-better-wifi-audio-and-overclocking/) - Hey All, Today the Raspberry Pi foundation announced a new Raspbian release. I'm currently putting it through its paces, but so far it seems great. Improvements: WiFi - I had never tried WiFi until today. I have never had good luck with Linux and wireless adapters. I have an older Belkin USB N wifi dongle and - [It's Alive!!!!](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2012/09/its-alive/) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38Bo966V-zU Hey All, Excited to post today. I was out shopping today at Walmart and I came across a portable battery pack charger on clearance. I had tried to use a friend's Duracell Portable charger and while it would power the Pi, it only outputted 500mA so it wasn't able to power my LCD. I - [Friday Post: Stuff in the pipeline](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2012/09/friday-post-stuff-in-the-pipeline/) - Not much to blog about tonight. My PCSX_ReARMed binaries are getting a lot of hits. I'm really impressed by the performance. This weekend I'm working on my NeoGeo controller project. Got more of the parts I need and a bunch of the Arduino code written. Still working on the Mednafen Emulator. Their IRC channel on - [Friday Post: Playstation Emulation on the Raspberry Pi!](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2012/08/friday-post-playstation-emulation-on-the-raspberry-pi/) - EDIT: UPDATED BINARIES HERE - FULL SPEED ACHIEVED! Hey All! Happy Friday! This week brings some really cool things for the Raspberry Pi. First up, we have a Playstation Emulator that works under X in on the Pi. It's called PCSX, it's OpenGL ES enabled, and while it's not runnign at full speed, it's a - [Better PlayStation Emulation on the Raspberry Pi](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2012/09/better-playstation-emulation-on-the-raspberry-pi/) - Shoutout to CodenameV for bringing PCSX_ReARMed to my attention! Tonight I have uploaded the source and binaries for PCSX_ReARMed. This is an amazing emulator that is running a lot of PSX games at full speed. I have not been able to get sound to work through HDMI yet, but since my last reformat, I haven't - [Good News Everyone!](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2012/09/good-news-everyone/) - Good News Everyone! I was able to recover my corrupted filesystem. I also completed a large chunk of a major project I'm working on at the University. This one piece of code has been bugging me for a couple of days, and I finally solved it today, so I feel a lot better. I'm exhausted - [Raspberry Pi SD Card Corruption](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2012/09/raspberry-pi-sd-card-corruption/) - Hey All, So this week started off cool then took a turn for suckage. I've been working on getting two more emulators working. One is a Neo Geo Pocket Color emulator, and it works, but has some minor issues. The other is another mass emulator like MESS. The older version compiles, but the latest one - [Friday Post: Arduino Keyboard Joystick](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2012/09/friday-post-arduino-keyboard-joystick/) - Hey all, It's been a long week, and I am really glad I have a long weekend to sleep in. When the Arduino Leonardo was announced I was really excited to see it have built in USB HID support and could act as a keyboard, mouse, or joystick. I was even more excited to find out - [Program in BASIC on your Nintendo DS (DSiWare)](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2012/08/program-in-basic-on-your-nintendo-ds-dsiware/) - Just recieved a neat link in my email from Nintendo. One of the new DSiWare downloadable games is a BASIC interpreter called Petit Computer. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AYlEo3rJHs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUan6W8x-s8&feature=related I really like the idea of saving your programs as QR codes which you can then share with others. This is just so cool on multiple levels. Anyone can - [pIO MicroSD adapter for the Raspberry Pi](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2012/08/pio-microsd-adapter-for-the-raspberry-pi/) - Hey all, Saw this post this morning on the raspberry_pi subreddit. It's a kickstarter project to fund a MicroSD card adapter that will sit flush with the Pi itself. It's $12 for the reward level of 1 adapter, or $20 for 2. I've become a backer. - [Friday Post: APC.io](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2012/08/friday-post-apc-io/) - Lo all. Happy Friday everyone. This post is going to be kind of short, as I somehow hurt my back and I can't find any really good position to type in. This week the Via APC single board computer went on sale at Newegg. This is kind of a competitor to the Raspberry Pi, except - [Made the frontpage!](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2012/08/made-the-frontpage/) - I was very excited when I found out that on Monday, I made the frontpage of the Raspberry Pi website. A big shout out to Liz for mentioning me and linking back here. It made my day! I really love working on this little computer. I'm learning so much and using skills that I took - [Descent Tutorial](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2012/08/descent-tutorial/) - Today I present a tutorial on compiling Descent for your Raspberry Pi running Raspbian. At the end of this tutorial you should have binaries ready to go and and a playable version of the game Descent. If you don’t want to wait for the compile, I have the binaries ready for you. Just skip to - [Friday Post: Descent and photography](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2012/08/friday-post-descent-and-photography/) - Hey all, Another Friday post here. A couple of days ago Derhass made a post about getting Descent 1 and 2 ported to the Raspberry Pi with OpenGL ES. Descent was an amazing game released back in the early 1990's. It had true 6 range freedom of movement in a spaceship with 3D modeling. - [Raspberry Pi - Quake 2](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2012/08/raspberry-pi-quake-2/) - Hey All, Reefab has spent an amazing amount of time getting Quake 2 to run on the Raspberry Pi. The port is based off of YQuake2 and has been changed to use OpenGL ES. It runs quite well on the Raspberry Pi, there is some slowdown but it's still very playable. You can download and compile - [Youtube-Viewer](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2012/08/youtube-viewer/) - Hey all, As you saw in my previous post / video, I was running Youtube videos in fullscreen on my little display. I was using an application (really just a 2000+ line perl script) that does this for me. The program is called youtube-viewer (github) Gcala posted a nice guide on how to set it up - [Youtube in my Raspberry Pi? or Is that an LCD in your pocket or are you just happy to see me...](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2012/08/youtube-in-my-raspberry-pi-or-is-that-an-lcd-in-your-pocket-or-are-you-just-happy-to-see-me/) - LCD Screen This weekend has been fun. I got my 2.0" LCD Display from Adafruit in! It's an amazing little screen. Bright, Sharp, Colorful. MAME, Quake, NeoGeo games all look great on it. A concern I had was how to power the little screen. It can take 5v - 12v, and the connector is just - [Friday Post: Woo! Long week...](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2012/08/friday-post-woo-long-week/) - Hey all, This has been an interesting long week. I'm really happy with the feedback I've recieved regarding the Raspbian binaries I released. I got linked to by Adafruit which is awesome! I purchased one of thier little 2.0" LCD TVs. Still waiting for it to arrive, but I plan to do some fun things - [Raspbian on Raspberry Pi - MAME, MESS, Quake3, NeoGeo, and Cave Story Binaries](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2012/07/raspbian-on-raspberry-pi-mame-mess-quake3-neogeo-and-cave-story-binaries/) - http://youtu.be/73eBi738jT4 Initial impressions with Raspbian. Everything seems to be either playable or faster than before. MESS is noticably faster. MAME was a LITTLE faster (it all depends on the game). Gngeo (Neo Geo) was still playing at full speed. Cave Story works fine as long as music is disabled. Quake 3 Arena plays but sometimes - [Cave Story (nxengine) on the Raspberry Pi](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2012/07/cave-story-nxengine-on-the-raspberry-pi/) - UPDATE: New Raspbian Binaries Available http://youtu.be/MiiROSVYEcw I got a request today to see if I could get Cave Story working on the Raspberry Pi. It took me about 4 hours but I've gotten a decent version running. This uses the NXengine open source cave story project, along with the english translation patch the freeware data - [Raspberry Pi and MESS - Multi Emulator Super System - NES, GameGear, Genesis](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2012/07/raspberry-pi-and-mess-multi-system-emulator-nes-gamegear-genesis/) - UPDATE: New Raspbian Binaries Available http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HRDp0c8mkg Hey All! Today I present the binaries for AdvanceMESS. The Multi Emulator Super System. MESS can emulate somewhere around 250 different home consoles and computers. It's not perfect in any sense, but it works for most consoles. I have currently tested: NES (some games are slow, but it works). GameGear (works) Genesis (slow - [Quake 3 Arena on the Raspberry Pi](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2012/06/quake-3-arena-on-the-raspberry-pi/) - UPDATE: New Raspbian Binaries Available Hey All, Quake 3 Arena has been available on the Pi for a while now, but it seems the site hosting the files have gone down for the time being. I'm going to host them here for now. Quake 3 for Raspberry Pi Quake 3 Demo PAKs It's a - [Neo Geo Emulation on the Raspberry Pi](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2012/06/neo-geo-emulation-on-the-raspberry-pi/) - UPDATE: New Raspbian Binaries Available I'm going to start this with saying that the Neo Geo is one of my favorite systems EVER. Over the years I've owned multiple Neo Geo Arcade Cabinets, tons of Neo Geo boards, and a drawer full of cartridges for the system. It's an amazing piece of hardware. The first - [GameWarp 2012 Photos](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2012/07/gamewarp-2012-photos/) - This past weekend was Game Warp! A Central Florida event dedicated to Arcade Video Games and Pinball Machines. I had a lot of fun, saw a lot of internet friends, and watched people way better than compete in awesome tournaments. Enjoy the pictures! http://www.gamewarp.org http://www.villagebbs.com/forum/ - [Friday Post: Raspbian](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2012/07/friday-post-raspbian/) - I once read some very good advice about blogging, and that is to have a schedule and keep to it. This blog has been my brain dump, I post things when I think about them. I don't really preplan for my posts. Something gets completed, it's cool, I write it down. I've slowly gained a - [Star Trek: The Next Generation now in High Definition!](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2012/07/star-trek-the-next-generation-now-in-high-definition/) - Hey All, I'm a huge Star Trek fan. When I heard that CBS was remastering and rereleasing all of TNG in high definition I got a huge smile on my face. I eargerly awaited the TNG Next Level sampler disc (which included the remastered Pilot - Encounter at Farpoint, Sins of the Father, and The - [Raspberry Pi "On/Off" Cable](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2012/07/raspberry-pi-onoff-switch-cable/) - What started out as a funny thought is now reality. I spent about an hour splicing, soldering, taping, and heat shrinking this fun little cable together. It's a microusb to microusb extension cable. I split it in half, cut off the data wires, soldered the ground cable back together, wrapped electrical tape around it, then - [Awesome Vacation!](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2012/07/awesome-vacation/) - Just got back from a MUCH needed vacation with my fiancée. Looks like raspbian has been released. I guess have some testing to do! - [Development Words of Wisdom](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2012/07/development-words-of-wisdom/) - I found this quote from Evil Brain Jono's blog post "Everybody Hates Firefox Updates": Software companies would do well to learn this lesson: anything with the phrase "users love our product" in it isn't a strategy, it's wishful thinking. Your users do not "love" your software. Your users are temporarily tolerating your software because it's the least horrible option they have - [Super Mario Bros. Pocket Watch](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2012/06/super-mario-bros-pocket-watch/) - Sometimes you just have to buy something nice for yourself. I saw this watch posted on Reddit Gaming and found a couple on eBay, so I decided to get one :-D. Hatena Block Pocket Watches - [Wireless Keyboard Touchpad Combo](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2012/06/wireless-keyboard-touchpad-combo/) - Lo all! Last week I decided I was tired of futzing around with unplugging my mouse and keyboard from my desktop and plugging them into the Pi when I needed to test something in a local console. SSH and VNC works for 99% of the instances out there, but sometimes, you just gotta run something on the - [Installing Django and MySQL on Mac OS X Lion](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2012/06/installing-django-and-mysql-on-mac-os-x-lion/) - In the past 6 months I've had to setup Django and MySQL 4 times on our various Mac hardware at work. I figured since I've seen to have it down pat now I should document it somewhere :) Python should already be installed. sudo easy_install pip download MySQL dmg from mysql.com. This is the version - [LowPowerPCs.com contest! Win a RaspberryPi!](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2012/06/lowpowerpcs-com-contest-win-a-raspberrypi/) - Just got an email from Jon at Low Power PCs. They are holding a contest to win a Raspberry Pi. From their site: In order to win this pocket sized computer you must do your best to impress us by your geekyness and creativity. You should comment on this post with a link to a - [raspberryPI and MAME](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2012/06/raspberrypi-and-mame/) - UPDATE: Edited to fix some issues. SECOND UPDATE: New Post with new binaries! So for the past few days I've been struggling to get MAME running on the raspberryPi. It was compiling, it would install, but I would always get a video_fault error. It ended up being that I had to modify the .rc - [Google Ads](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2012/06/google-ads/) - Hey All, You might be seeing one google ad below this post. I'm going to keep one ad on this page (only one ad) and see if it helps with my hosting costs. if it gets too distracting i'll remove it. - [Raspberry Pi tip 2](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2012/06/raspberry-pi-tip-2/) - The debian squeeze distro for Raspberry Pi will not allow you to "su" only "sudo". The reason for this is because no password has been set for the "root" account. To fix this, type into the command line: sudo passwd root Enter in the password you could like for the root account and you should - [Raspberry Pi!](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2012/06/raspberry-pi/) - So, I recently got my Raspberry Pi and have been having a lot of fun with it. Programming in Python on it, running Quake 3 Arena, trying to compile different apps with various states of success. Using Google Chromium on it. The experience has been amazing. This $35 machine has allowed me to play games, - [Arduino and EL Escudo](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2012/04/arduino-and-el-escudo/) - Another fixit type post. Every so often I repurpose my Arduino and EL Wire for a new project, and each time I always forget how to properly get the EL_Escudo library resetup. I should probably just fork the code on GitHub with the fixes that have been posted, but who remembers to do that. So, - [PyCon 2012](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2012/03/pycon-2012/) - I'm going to start this blog with an account of my recent trip to PyCon 2012. My University sent me there to learn, network, and be a representative. I had a blast. I have learned an immense amount and met an amazing group of people. There were 2500 incredibly bright and talented individuals at this event. To - [Nyan Cat April Fools](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2012/04/nyan-cat-april-fools/) - I love my coworkers. I came in this morning to find that our SysAdmin had made a custom boot image that ran NyanCat (8 bit music and all) on all our machines. Was a fun day :) - [PhoneGap 1.5.0 and iOS 5.1](https://blog.sheasilverman.com/2012/03/phonegap-1-5-0-and-ios-5-1/) - Hey All, Just posting here so I remember some fixes I had to do with the new release of PhoneGap 1.5 (also known as Cordova). When you initially run your new xCode product, you will get a ton of "semantic" issues. 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