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[Link] PlayStation 2 Gets A Seamless Media Center Makeover

Read: 4/7/2022 hackaday.com

We often see Raspberry Pi boards of various flavors stuck inside vintage computers and the like. [El Gato Guiri] has instead installed one inside a PlayStation 2 Slim, and rather artfully at that. The result is a tidy little media center device.

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[Link] 25 years later, this museum figured out how to stop screen cheating in GoldenEye

Read: 10/5/2022 www.pcgamer.com

Screen cheating has always been the bane of split screen gaming. There's nothing quite like sneakily creeping around corners only to find out your opponent has been right there waiting for you. Not out of any deduction or skill, just their ability to look at your portion of the screen. GG indeed.

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[Link] Soil Moisture Sensor Coating Lessons Learned The Hard Way

Read: 3/3/2022 hackaday.com

Ever wanted to measure soil moisture? Common “soil moisture meter module arduino raspberry compatible free shipping” PCBs might deceive you with their ascetic looks.

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[Link] ESP8266 Based WiFi Game Boy Cartridge Browses WikiPedia

Read: 19/12/2021 hackaday.com

[Sebastian Staacks] came across his old Game Boy and was wondering (as you do) what happened to recent attempts at getting a WiFi interface wedged into a standard cartridge. After a while the conclusion was that people had been scuppered by approaching the problem in a way that made it too hard.

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[Link] Bridging Game Worlds With The ‘Impossible’ Pokémon Trade

Read: 8/12/2021 hackaday.com

Transferring hard-earned Pokémon out of the second generation GameBoy game worlds into the ‘Advance Era’ cartridges (and vice versa) has never been officially supported by Nintendo, however [Goppier] has made these illicit trades slightly easier for budding Pokémon trainers by way of a custom

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[Link] This Ham Radio Is Unsafe At Any Frequency

Read: 6/12/2021 hackaday.com

When we were kids we rode bicycles without pads and helmets. We drank sugary drinks. We played with chemistry sets and power tools. We also built things that directly used AC line current.

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[Link] iPhone With Common Sense USB-C Mod Currently Going for $100,000 on eBay

Read: 7/11/2021 www.vice.com

Engineering student Ken Pillonel modded an iPhone with a custom USB-C port in October. Now he’s selling the phone on eBay where its current bid is $100,100. The initial listing was for $1.

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[Link] ‘Tiny Wake-Up Light Is Hugely Bright

Read: 6/11/2021 hackaday.com

Let’s face it — waking up is rough no matter what time of year it is. But the darkness of fall and winter makes it so much worse.

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[Link] ESP32 Internet Radio Is No Game

Read: 31/10/2021 hackaday.com

More than once, we’ve looked at a cool board like the TTGO T-Display and thought, “What can we build with this?” If you are [Volos Projects], the answer is a tiny Internet radio. He’s done a lot of other projects with the board including some games and a weather station.

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[Link] ESP32-Cam Makes A Dandy Motion Detector

Read: 24/10/2021 hackaday.com

Halloween is right around the corner and just about every Halloween project needs some kind of motion sensor. Historically, we’ve used IR and ultrasonic sensors but [Makers Mashup] decided to use an ESP32-Cam as a motion sensor in his latest animatronic creation.

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