#diy controller

[the-uh-embre]

so excited to wire my diy boxx 2morrow <3

kind of anxious about measuring the red wires and whether or not i should tape the microcontroller to the box or let it just hang there so that vibrations and jostling don't mess w the chip as much. wires should be fine though since i bought stranded ones.

this is what it looks like outside. ive made myself a little guide to make it easier soldering each button to the default pinhole set in the firmware, but again anxious about that part. i'll defo (probably) have it in the center to save on wire. the ground though, that part i found pretty fun on my stream deck.

thing im most anxious abt is the usb wire. im hoping i can find one lying around that i can leave inside to have a dedicated wire since i dont have a breakout. but if it comes to it, i can share the one i use for my drawing tablet. unplugging its gonna be a bitch though.

hope in the future i can also wire a gamecube usb, so i can play on my wii or at locals that use gamecubes.

[reality-detective]

DIY Ant Spray

This really works. 3 simple household ingredients is all it takes to get rid of ants for good. 🤔

[miekrowave]

this would fix me

[trebuchet151]

Vendetta and Corey! Besties 5ever!!! Made as a sequel to the adorable craft night drawing by @sunsetno4!!!! Hair dye and painting each others nails and more good tunes! Plus Corey returning to their Sidestep era love of neon colors and DIY clothes (surely the Heartbreak crop top won't draw any unwanted attention) It was so much fun getting to draw Vendetta! Corey is every bit as enamored with nem as I am <3

The song in the bg: Monday Morning - Pulp

and a version without the text + close ups of my fav details under the cut

[conkreetmonkey]

So can you get diseases or bedbugs from picking up pieces of clothing you find abandoned in the wild while just walking around town? Is there like a process for de-bugging and disinfecting them that goes beyond just tossing them in the wash, maybe with some bleach? Is it at all unadviseable? Is this a thing people do?

I see like 5 abandoned jackets, hoodies, work gloves, hats, you name it, every time I go for a walk (meth town, dumping your shit in random parking lots is the norm around here apparently), and I always just think "man, like 90% of this stuff just needs dried up and cleaned and it would be perfectly good, or at the very least could be scrapped for materials. Feels like an awful waste to just leave them to rot." But at the same time, I am paranoid about bedbugs (you'd be stupid not to be ngl).

Any advice? I'm of course not talking about stealing obviously lost hats or mittens, those I prop up in obvious areas near where I found them, as is considered polite. I'm talking about jackets found by dumpsters or on the curb. Stuff that was clearly discarded.

[fricc-darn]

How would BEN react to getting their partner pregnant by some crazy chance?

BEN would be on the brink of a mental break down-

It would NOT be a good parent what so ever😭 Even if BEN is super intelligent and would know the do's and don'ts of parenting, it can't bring itself to do it.

1) A child is another reminder of its trauma. Being around the spitting image of itself, that's a clean slate. Pure, innocent, and completely unaware of the cruelty of the world. BEN would be jealous to a horrifying degree. Especially since it is now their responsibility to give this kid a good life. It should've been them receiving such treatment in their past. BEN would be no different than every person who has caused them harm. That thought alone is enough stress.

2) BEN is too temperamental for babies, kids, or most people really... A crying baby stuck with a malicious entity is a recipe for disaster.

[cutiepieautistic]

Source

[alxor-of-hellsite]

oh yeah don’t think i’ve posted this one yet. it’s a bit crooked but i like it like that. Sewing on the lace was surprisingly fun & it works well to fix up & project the edges.

[marklikely]

i just kind of wish when people were making all these psas they would stop saying just "diy hrt" and specify which type of hrt theyre talking about. because 90% of these posts are just flat out not true for testosterone

[recreationaldivorce]

seriously so annoying when ppl act like they can't do XYZ bc they'll "get into trouble" (9 times out of 10 the thing they're talking about isn't even enforced anyway). Like ok let's assume they're talking about something where there is a real threat of eg state retaliation, people do do that anyway and it is kinda just downright disrespectful to the ppl who have put themselves on the line in taking that action to suggest it's simply impossible to do things that you also would get into trouble for. if you personally don't want to risk eg prison or whatever then say that, cause there's plenty of people who feel otherwise. it's not physically impossible to break the law (not to mention that a lot of instances where this attitude crops up, the "getting into trouble" being discussed is not even criminal "trouble" lol).

[moe-broey]

I've hired this thing to stand there. Menacingly.

Wow, he's so good at tha--

Nevermind.

He also sits very politely though (needs assistance to do so, but hey! He's polite.)

[mylifeisbadpoetry]

*Space Giiiirl, show me the stars***

[mintdinostuff]

“Testosterone doesn’t grow on trees you know.” Correct, it grows in my goddamn closet.

[thesalvageupcycler]

I have a friend with a loose crochet tension and it sorta bewilders me. HOWWWWWW???? my tight asf tension could never. sometimes I struggle to knit bc my overall tension is so tight 😭😭 I’ve snapped yarns before while working with them

[rpgremedies]

[wirewitchviolet]

Hell is terms like ASIC, FPGA, and PPU

I haven't been doing any public updates on this for a bit, but I am still working on this bizarre rabbit hole quest of designing my own (probably) 16-bit game console. The controller is maybe done now, on a design level. Like I have parts for everything sourced and a layout for the internal PCB. I don't have a fully tested working prototype yet because I am in the middle of a huge financial crisis and don't have the cash laying around to send out to have boards printed and start rapidly iterating design on the 3D printed bits (housing the scroll wheel is going to be a little tricky). I should really spend my creative energy focusing on software development for a nice little demo ROM (or like, short term projects to earn money I desperately need) but my brain's kinda stuck in circuitry gear so I'm thinking more about what's going into the actual console itself. This may get techie.

So... in the broadest sense, and I think I've mentioned this before, I want to make this a 16-bit system (which is a term with a pretty murky definition), maybe 32-bit? And since I'm going to all this trouble I want to give my project here a little something extra the consoles from that era didn't have. And at the same time, I'd like to be able to act as a bridge for the sort of weirdos who are currently actively making new games for those systems to start working on this, on a level of "if you would do this on this console with this code, here's how you would do it on mine." This makes for a hell of a lot of research on my end, but trust me, it gets worse!

So let's talk about the main strengths of the 2D game consoles everyone knows and loves. Oh and just now while looking for some visual aids maybe I stumbled across this site, which is actually great as a sort of mid-level overview of all this stuff. Short version though-

The SNES (or Super Famicom) does what it does by way of a combination of really going all in on direct memory access, and particularly having a dedicated setup for doing so between scanlines, coupled with a bunch of dedicated graphical modes specialized for different use cases, and you know, that you can switch between partway through drawing a screen. And of course the feature everyone knows and loves where you can have one polygon and do all sorts of fun things with it.

The Genesis (or Megadrive) has an actual proper 16-bit processor instead of this weird upgraded 6502 like the SNES had for a scrapped backwards compatibility plan. It also had this frankly wacky design where they just kinda took the guts out of a Sega Master System and had them off to the side as a segregated system whose only real job is managing the sound chip, one of those good good Yamaha synths with that real distinct sound... oh and they also actually did have a backwards compatibility deal that just kinda used the audio side to emulate an SMS, basically.

The TurboGrafix-16 (or PC Engine) really just kinda went all-in on making its own custom CPU from scratch which...we'll get to that, and otherwise uh... it had some interesting stuff going on sound wise? I feel like the main thing it had going was getting in on CDs early but I'm not messing with optical drives and they're no longer a really great storage option anyway.

Then there's the Neo Geo... where what's going on under the good is just kind of A LOT. I don't have the same handy analysis ready to go on this one, but my understanding is it didn't really go in for a lot of nice streamlining tricks and just kinda powered through. Like it has no separation of background layers and sprites. It's just all sprites. Shove those raw numbers.

So what's the best of all worlds option here? I'd like to go with one of them nice speedy Motorolla processors. The 68000 the Genesis used is no longer manufactured though. The closest still-in-production equivalent would be the 68SEC000 family. Seems like they go for about $15 a pop, have a full 32-bit bus, low voltage, some support clock speeds like... three times what the Genesis did. It's overkill, but should remove any concerns I have about having a way higher resolution than the systems I'm jumping off from. I can also easily throw in some beefy RAM chips where I need.

I was also planning to just directly replicate the Genesis sound setup, weird as it is, but hit the slight hiccup that the Z80 was JUST discontinued, like a month or two ago. Pretty sure someone already has a clone of it, might use that.

Here's where everything comes to a screeching halt though. While the makers of all these systems were making contracts for custom processors to add a couple extra features in that I should be able to work around by just using newer descendant chips that have that built in, there really just is no off the shelf PPU that I'm aware of. EVERYONE back in the day had some custom ASIC (application-specific integrated circuit) chip made to assemble every frame of video before throwing it at the TV. Especially the SNES, with all its modes changing the logic there and the HDMA getting all up in those mode 7 effects. Which are again, something I definitely want to replicate here.

So one option here is... I design and order my own ASIC chips. I can probably just fit the entire system in one even? This however comes with two big problems. It's pricy. Real pricy. Don't think it's really practical if I'm not ordering in bulk and this is a project I assume has a really niche audience. Also, I mean, if I'm custom ordering a chip, I can't really rationalize having stuff I could cram in there for free sitting outside as separate costly chips, and hell, if it's all gonna be in one package I'm no longer making this an educational electronics kit/console, so I may as well just emulate the whole thing on like a raspberry pi for a tenth of the cost or something.

The other option is... I commit to even more work, and find a way to reverse engineer all the functionality I want out with some big array of custom ROMs and placeholder RAM and just kinda have my own multi-chip homebrew co-processors? Still PROBABLY cheaper than the ASIC solution and I guess not really making more research work for myself. It's just going to make for a bigger/more crowded motherboard or something.

Oh and I'm now looking at a 5V processor and making controllers compatible with a 10V system so I need to double check that all the components in those don't really care that much and maybe adjust things.

And then there's also FPGAs (field programmable gate arrays). Even more expensive than an ASIC, but the advantage is it's sort of a chip emulator and you can reflash it with something else. So if you're specifically in the MiSTer scene, I just host a file somewhere and you make the one you already have pretend to be this system. So... good news for those people but I still need to actually build something here.

So... yeah that's where all this stands right now. I admit I'm in way way over my head, but I should get somewhere eventually?