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Anyone who says they want bipartisanship should not be trusted to hold money, teach schoolchildren, or operate heavy machinery.

submitted 5 hours ago • 12 comments

I just filed my and my wife's taxes. It took ten minutes. I did it from my home office. It was free. Suck it, America.

submitted 13 hours ago • 4 comments

Well, it's not very elegant, but it passes DRC.

submitted 16 hours ago • 1 comment

Humanity is getting a very quick refresher course in how evil, dangerous psychopaths can simultaneously be utterly pathetic losers. There is no contradiction!

submitted 1 day ago • 56 comments

This stuff is grimly fascinating - so many weird little knock-on consequences, and it's barely begun.

submitted 18 hours ago • 2 comments

All of these spoke to me, deeply.

submitted 1 day ago • 25 comments

Honestly, I just wanted to see if it would work. And it kind of does, doesn't it? Dirty little secret: A lot of the cartridge pins are NC. The Genesis/Mega Drive connector expects 16 data pins and a bunch of other stuff we don't do.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Maybe-not-so-mini?

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Ah. Finally located both of my Hyperkin SNES accessories: the gamepad and the mouse. The idea of an optical mouse for the SNES tickles me. Using it for Sentinel 65X is just a natural outgrowth of using SNES pads.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Right, time to test these out. I’ve got modern PSUs for both so I can test the included PSUs separately. #RetroComputing

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

You know what I hate the most about the whole "retrogames" community? Fucking gatekeepers. All their "real fan" bollocks. I want new people to become interested and involved in retro games. Gatekeepers tend to put people off, usually on purpose. So fuck 'em.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Does anyone else keep a DuPont connector kit on hand so you can take the 15 loose connectors for whatever and make them into a single connector with the right pinout?

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

Price is Right sad trombone

submitted 1 day ago • 38 comments

Why am I trying to make my little games console / microcomputer a reality, given how fucked the world is? Self-answering question. The more fucked the world, the more you have to push your dreams, even small ones.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Excuse me while I quietly freak out about maybe having actually finished and delivered a project for once.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

one of the most consistently funny conservative guy trait is how they portray themselves as tough leaders who can handle anything you throw at them start stuttering and crying when they have to use a public bus or train

submitted 2 days ago • 40 comments

I don't know. Like... ESP32-PICO-D4 + iCE40UP5K -- is that an idea? Certainly inexpensive. What could you get out of that combo?

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

You know what I like? I like those little plug-and-play TV joystick things with the retro games on them. What I don't like is that they're not programmable. They're barely hackable. I wonder if that'd be a worthy "next thing" to work on: an open source plug-and-play that output HDMI.

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

TFW you are thinking ahead ten moves, and wonder where the fuck you'd even get fifty of a CPU that Mouser typically has half a dozen to sell.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

I used no AI in making Sentinel 65X. All its flaws and foibles are pure organic tomfuckery, grown right here in Ontario, Canada.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Gonna be honest. I want this project done. I want it out the door. I want it to succeed or fail based on the merits of the hardware and design. Most importantly, I want to stop revising it and spinning new boards for it. I want to get this done before I start to hate it.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

cough laughs

submitted 2 days ago • 61 comments

So if I wanted to do some kind of crowdfund for producing the Sentinel 65X Mini, who do I ask for advice? I feel the design is at the point where the only thing left to do is have a couple built to be debugged, followed by the debugged production version being released and sold.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Seriously. Just give me a 32-bit RISC-V chip that runs at 3.3V, and has exposed, non-multiplexed address and data buses.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Apparently the new ESP32 RISC-V SoC is a beast?

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

It's not lazy. It's pushed on them from above. This is why billionaires should not be allowed to own news outlets.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Dont write code when you're tired. It never goes well.

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments