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Grep for puzzle designers (and solvers)
Overview Grep is a tool for Unix-like operating systems that performs searching within files. It’s also a great tool for many word puzzles. If you are on OS X or Linux, you already have it. On...
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Designing a fair 3-sided coin
A couple of weekends ago I played Betrayal at House on the Hill with a few friends. One of the stranger features of the game are the dice. They’re 6-sided die that act as 3-sided. They have pips for 0,...
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Building a RetroPie console emulator
A few weeks ago I put together a RetroPie. A RetroPie is a small — smaller than a pack of cigarettes, smaller than a game controller — gaming system that emulates all of the classic consoles. There are...
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RetroPie Key Remapping
In the last blog post, I showed you how to make a Raspberry Pi emulator using the Open Source project RetroPie. In this post, I will share with you some interesting tricks involving keyboard mapping...
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Classic games on the Apple TV with Provenance
I recently learned about a classic game emulator for the Apple TV called Provenance. I’ve toyed around with emulators attached to the TV before, for instance see my post on the RetroPie. One thing that...
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Reading Atari Cartridges with an Arduino
There are a lot of online repositories to download video game ROM images. Whether it’s from a website or BitTorrent, you end up with a collection of binary files, each file corresponding to the code...
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Building an Unusual Video Game Controller
Every so often I visit OMSI After Dark. These are occasional adults-only evenings that the local science museum puts on. A few months ago the specific After Dark event was about the history of video...
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Keeping a Zelda Task Journal
It’s no secret that I like to use paper. Just take a look at my Hipster PDA section, and my constant reliance on Field Notes notebooks for quickly jotting down ideas to deal with later. (I’m really...
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Laser-Cut Spell Saga Boxes
The story of Spell Saga, a tabletop novel, is long, twisty, and goes back to 2013. You might say it’s a bit of a… saga. The fancy “zero edition” cards arrived earlier this year, and I figured I do a...
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Making Travel Games
At the time I’m writing this, I’ll be traveling to France in a couple of weeks, culminating in a week at Paris Disneyland, to meet up with my love, Christine, who is already there. (This post is...
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