I have to say it turned out well for never painting anything in my life.
New Nursery Curtains
These arrived the other day. They go perfectly with the room.
The NES Arcade
The NES Arcade.
NES Cartridge Star Kade
A full fledged gaming console squeezed into a cartridge.
Sunday, March 23, 2014
Sunday, March 16, 2014
Optiwiz Re-wired
I was having trouble with my trackball not working properly. I put it away for months and decided to do a rewire last night. I rebuilt the original Millipede trackball and all is working well now.
Friday, March 14, 2014
Maniac Mansion remake
Night Of The Meteor
I'm really lookin forward to this being finished. It's a remake of the classic Maniac Mansion. The art style is done up like Day of the Tentacle. Which is another great game. Thanks to klopjero over at hyperspin for discovering and posting this little gem.
Go to http://www.night-of-the-meteor.de/en to check out the progress.
Thursday, March 13, 2014
Zombies Ate My Arcade
Well I had originally given this cab away 2 times. First to a fellow hyperspinner, but then my little bro asked for it but He never picked it up so I ended up taking it with me when I moved. The cab itself is in great shape. I had planned on restoring it. In the process of restoring the cab I found out the the color red was bad on the tube. Then after that something went wrong with the gameboard. So after all that I decided to convert it. How could you do something like that they cry? Well I can do it because it's mine. It's been in the family for 30 years and probably will be for many more after that.
So growing up I was a huge fan of Zombies Ate My Neighbors. I decided to theme the arcade after that game. There is a guy over at devine art who drew a crap load of Zombie video game characters. They are freaking awesome! All props go to him. I have his name written down somewhere but can't remember it at the moment.
To achieve a good print I needed some vectorized art. His charcter files are large,but not large enough to use without losing the quality. Below is a screenshot of his original and my redraw. His has more detail and shadowing, but mine isn't too shabby either.
Tuesday, March 11, 2014
Starting to decorate.
Added an appropriate Nintendo logo to the changing pad cover.
Showing off some Thwomp pillows for the rocker.
Saturday, March 8, 2014
Wednesday, March 5, 2014
Wall Name Plaque
I got this idea from a drawing someone did over at devineart. It's turning out quite well. I need to make some minor tweaking to the 2nd d but it looks pretty good. This is one solid wire. No cuts or breaks were used to make the letters.
DISCLAIMER!!!
No harm was done to the controller. The wire is actually from a spare Nes cord I had lying around. The controller itself is an empty shell I had from a repair.
Walls are Officially done!
Walls are officially done. Next up...Some artwork! As if they already weren't awesome enough.
Sunday, March 2, 2014
Super Mario 3 Wall Decals
Finally cut all the decals out. It took quite a while to do it but the end product made it all worth it. Here is a mach up of how it's going to look. I'll probably move the question blocks around a bit but the layout is good.
Wednesday, February 26, 2014
Question Block Curtain Rod Ends
A simple way to make custom curtain rods is to find ones with screw off ends. These are tin candy boxes that cost around $5 a piece. Drill a hole in the center of one side. Slide it on to curtain rod end and use a washer and bolt to attach it. Simple and awesome!.
Mario room baby update.
I finished painting and now started the dreaded process of cutting out all the vinyl wall decals. This is just sheet one of 2.
Wednesday, February 19, 2014
Working on my new son's mario themed nursery
I got my inspiration to do a mario themed nursery from geek-vintage.com I purchased some old school Mario 3 prints from etsy which are pretty sweet.
This was a room done with prints
Tuesday, October 15, 2013
Pi Cart...in the flesh
Here's what it sort of looks in the inside. The controller USB ports and the power port switched places when I changed to the new USB connectors.
It's pretty much done. I wanted to use some USB SNES controllers just because I needed more buttons to play different systems, but when I updated to the new RetroPi version it's broke the driver or something. So I just ended up using 2 Phillips Recoil controllers. They aren't the best, but they do the job well enough.
Friday, August 2, 2013
Pi Cart Build
Made a lot of progress on the Pi cart. Cut spots for the USB extensions, Hmdi, and SD card in the back. Did lots of testing of different emulators.
Thursday, July 4, 2013
Pi Video Output
Well after messing around with the settings i figure out how to make the screen go from squish to this. Although it looks blurry it's pretty clear. Just a bad pic.
Monday, July 1, 2013
Hdmi to VGA
Lack of VGA out is one the biggest complaints people have with the Pi. Luckily there is a solution for that with this little converter. You won't be able to use it right away until you change some settings on the Pi to force output, but once you do you'll be good to go.
Sunday, June 30, 2013
Life of Pi
Finally bought a Raspberry Pi. Seems pretty neat so far. If this project goes well I will probably buy acouple of more. I like the idea of having an old 300mhz computer in my pocket. Those are the computers that got me hooked in the first place so it's only fitting that I go back to my roots. Instead of blowing a ton of money restoring a millipede cab, I'm going to attempt to do it with a slice of raspberry pi and and LCD upgrade. More to follow soon.
Friday, February 15, 2013
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
WiiNes
Lets talk about goals. The software end is pretty easy. I'll use priiloader to load directly into the the emulator, which in turn, will bypass the Wii OS. The Video connector will go on the side where the AV ports go. Power and Sensor connector will go to the back, and 2 Gamecube controller hooks up in the front.
Now comes the hard part...Wireless NES controllers. So some how I need to figure out how to shove a wii mini remote inside, wire it up so it works, add a rechargeable battery, a charging port, and power switch in the very tiny amount of space I have. I don't know if it will be possible, but I know I'm going to try. Only the bare minimum will be on the controller. So anything I don't need that I can take off will be taken off.
Tuesday, January 8, 2013
Pi Nes
Before the Pi Nes is started...I'll be starting my millipede cab conversion that will be featuring a rotating monitor. So if you are interested stay tuned.
Wednesday, November 7, 2012
Sign of the times?
Tuesday, October 16, 2012
RIP NINTENDO POWER
Friday, April 27, 2012
Retrousb Pricecuts
If you are in the market to build an NES PC then today would be a good day to buy your retro chips. Head on over Retrousb.com and pick yourself up some NES/SNES chips for just $14 a piece. It's a pretty good deal if you ask me.
Sunday, April 8, 2012
Project ADD
I have ADD when it comes to working on projects. I'm actually taking a break from the Spintendo to work on a new project which involves a millipede arcade cab. I'll be converting it into a cab that plays Point and Click adventures such as Maniac Mansion, Sam and Max...ect. More to come on that later. I know it's not as cool as the Spintendo, but like I said, I have Project ADD. I guess I always like to keep busy with one project or another.
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