Raspberry Pi Commodore 64
I’ve built a lot of arcades and packed them with Raspberry Pi goodness over the years, but today’s project is going to be quite a bit different! We’re going to pack a Raspberry Pi running Retropie into a Commodore 64. A Raspberry Pi Commodore 64 is something that has been on my list of To-Dos […]
Repairing the Commodore PET 4016
A few episodes back on The 8-Bit guy, David restored a vintage Commodore PET Model 4016. However, he left one thing incomplete. The space bar didn’t work. Since it wound up in my museum, repairing the Commodore PET has been high on my list of things to do. It’s incredibly hard to use the thing […]
Arduino Basics: Install the Arduino IDE
The Arduino is a microcontroller chip, with a platform built around it to make it easy to program for and easy to connect components to. In fact, the Arduino Uno is available with a socketed chip that can be removed. Some tinkers will use the platform to program the chip, and then remove it from […]
Building my New Desktop and Gaming Rig
I’ve been planning to build a new gaming pc build for quite some time. Unfortunately so many other things just seem to get in the way. Well now that time is finally here, and I went all out on this bad boy including a GTX 1080ti STRIX and the Enthoo Evolv tempered glass case! All […]
X-Carve Upgrade HONEST Review
The team over at Inventables contacted me and said “Hey! We’d like to send you the latest version of the X-Carve with all of the upgrades including the X-Controller; and the only thing we’d ask in return is that you give it an honest review.” So this is my honest review. Watch the X-Carve Upgrade […]
The LattePanda Single Board Computer (Intro)
Whether you’re building an arcade or some other contraption, the goto board for most of these projects has been the Raspberry Pi series of single board computers. Since the Raspberry Pi runs an ARM Cortex processor, you would normally run Raspbian – which is a Linux based operating system. If you want to run Windows, […]
Tour of My Home Network (and More!)
So I have had a ton of requests over the years to give a tour of my home network. Honestly, I never gave the tour because I just didn’t think people would be that interested in what I had. Well I have had enough requests to get the idea that some of you really do […]
Building a 1U Server (Bad A** 1U Server Build!)
This build is not about building the biggest, baddest, and most redundant server we can build, rather this one is about building the biggest and baddest server that we cram in to a 1U case that is only 19” wide by 12” deep. Building a 1U Server didn’t come without challenges, but in the end it was […]
Make the Pacade (Bartop Retropie Arcade Cabinet)
About a year ago, I introduced my Bartop Arcade Cabinet Build. It was a big hit and I got so much great feedback from you guys! You guys really are the best audience ever. Well, today I’ve taken almost a years worth of feedback and used that to design and release an all new version […]
Make an iPad Arcade (Tablet Arcade) FAIL
My arcade projects are some of the funnest projects I have done, and my fans have told me the same! Many of my loyal fans have built their own versions of my full-size arcade cabinet and my bartop arcade cabinet. Some of my fans though have been clear that one of these cabinets is just […]