Ancestors

Written by Dave Hayden 🏊 on 2024-10-27 at 18:37

Yesterday at Fantastic Arcade I got to show off what I've been working on all month (and, crucially, stop spending every waking hour working on it): A couple of arcade cabinets with Raspberry Pis that run a custom build of Mirror. @ldbr_art was going to be showing a couple of games there and mentioned wanting to make a cabinet and I basically stole the idea and ran with it

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Toot

Written by Dave Hayden 🏊 on 2024-10-27 at 18:46

It was way more work than I expected, and all my own fault. I got bogged down in tiny unimportant details and lost track of the big picture--and the impending hard deadline, which is something I don't usually have to deal with (thank you, Panic!). I ran out of time to finish the second cabinet but Dylan said "no problem! It's got a screen, we'll just play video on it." This is why it's good to work with smart people :D

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Descendants

Written by Dave Hayden 🏊 on 2024-10-27 at 18:49

What you can't see here is there's a second crank slot on the side and you can pull the handle out and slot it in there if you want. I actually used the Playdate magnet sensor for these, harvested from broken Playdates. Unfortunately I broke the connection to the side sensor as soon as we got there and I opened the case. 🤦‍♂️ I printed 4 extra cranks but we only had one breakage, when someone got a little too feisty playing Necrocrisis

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Written by Dave Hayden 🏊 on 2024-10-27 at 19:01

Oh, and I shot myself in the foot multiple times by deleting files I thought I wouldn't need any more but then something didn't go as expected. So dumb.

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