My new little Raspberry Pi music buddy, Octopy!
With the Chinese malware gradually dying down this year and music beginning to enter back into my life, I’ve been trying to figure out how to get back into the local scene and have some fun with new musical endeavors. Part of that has been focusing on electronic music over the past year with my…
Spring Cleaning Sale!
It’s that time of the year again! Time to go through all your old retro collection pieces and figure out what should stay and what should go. In my case, I think it’s a good opportunity to make some use out of my store here (you may have noticed the “Items for Sale” button in…
Nano SwinSIDb Piggyback Now Available in the Store!
Here’s a small but fun little project I’ve been working on recently that you can now purchase for yourself if it would be a good fit for your C64 rig. I recently got a SX-64 which had a number of problems with it, one being the SID chip. After confirming that many secondary aspects of…
New Additions to the Store
Recently picked up some new stock and have added these two new gems to my for sale section. They came out of a particularly interesting early-2000s Alienware rig, so they’ve got to have that alien-shine to them, right? Anywho, if you’ve got any questions about these or anything else for sale, hit me up.
NES-inspired 8bitdo N30 Wireless Mouse
When this new mouse was first announced, I thought it might have been a late April Fool’s joke. But of course I was wrong. Only 8bitdo, makers of some killer wireless retro controllers, would actually take this concept from Industrial Designer, Daniel Jansson, back in 2009 and make it a real product. Since I’d be…
Online store is now live and running!
I’ve been working on getting my online shop set up on this page for a while, but due to my need to make this site so dang ugly with all the retro jibber-jabber, it took me some time to get it fitting just right. There may still be some issues, so bear with me if…
Using the FSR Pathfinder PFD-12×8 RGBA for Retro Gaming
A Need Arises For some time now, I’ve been using a pretty decent consumer component switcher, the Psyclone PSC01. For a consumer-grade, powered switcher, it really isn’t bad at it’s job. The ability to have a single source for ethernet and optical signals is fantastic too, a powerhouse for sixth and seventh generation consoles. The…
Showing Off the Atari 2600 & Spider Web Game at the Pensacola Mini Maker Faire
In September, an old friend of mine and professor at UWF, Thomas Asmuth, invited me to present at the first Pensacola Mini Maker Faire on November 16th hosted by the university. It took me a little while to get my ducks in a row, but I finally decided to show off the game I had…
I Programmed My First Cartridge!
After about 2 months of collecting supplies, programming, and putting it all together, I finally got my first cartridge running on an Atari 2600! The game I put on there is Spider Web which I have been working on off and on for a few months. It is written in 6502 assembly and tested using…
Making your RetroTINK-2X Stylish with Laser Bear
For nearly a year now, my RetroTINK-2X has been sitting on its stoup near the center of my media center gradually collecting dust on its exposed PCB. I applaud Mike Chi for putting together such a bombin’ device, but exterior looks were definitely not high on his to-do list. That’s where 3D modeling and printing…
Fostex X-26 Belt Repair
During my typical thrift shopping route, something immediately caught my eye in the electronics aisle. With it’s array of knobs and open door cassette deck, I knew I had come across a thrift store rarity, a 4-track cassette recorder. For only $8, this pickup was a no-brainer especially for the number of features it had…
Chromecast Embedded in CRT
In the kitchen of the house that I grew up in, we had this little black CRT that I would watch my cartoons on while scarfing down a bowl of cereal every morning before school. In order to recreate that nostalgic feeling, I’ve got to have a little tele in the corner of my kitchen…
Removing the Clock Capacitor from your Xbox
The original Microsoft Xbox is one of my favorite consoles. Because of Microsoft’s history in computing, it had so many unique properties to it that differed from every other console on the market at the time. This is discounting the Dreamcast which heavily influenced and was influenced by Microsoft. One equally unique and unfortunate feature…