2 years ago, I was building a PID regulation using #arduino and #fischertechnik

I have made 5 of them 😀. Raspberry Pi Pico Game console with 16x16 led Display.

Love this! #retrocomputing #coding

What movie do you consider perfect?

PowerPoint is the worst tool to draw electrical schematics.

Most people want their game in 4K. Me: 16 by 16 pixels is enough....

Why does it feel the no one has ever heard of the movies I watch? (e.g. ソウタイセカイ : Relative Worlds)

I have written an emulator for my game conole with a 16x16 led display. Now I can debug the games without having to use the real hardware

Post a non-religious image you think of as holy

Am I making lots of breakout games running on #raspberrypi pico ?

I always loved High voltage lines. But this abomination is terrifying. High voltage lines design should never include lines that cross each other. Image source: Google street view in Osaka

Could it be that I am again building a game console with a resolution of 16x16 ? By the way note that is possible to saw an 8x32 led matrix in 2 8x16 matrix that you can put together to make a 16x16 display

It seems that I have an obsession with #arduino boards

Please remember : when you push a commit, the associated tag is not pushed

Come on @microsoft.com , I have no reason to replace this perfectly good PC, that I use for #VisualStudio development. Why can't you continue to provide an Operating system that supports it?

If you see this, quote post with a time travel movie that's not BACK TO THE FUTURE.

Making a box for my recently purchased #märklin 3034

Warning AI are inserting data inside our images for unknown purpose? I asked an AI to generate an image with a white background, then used paint to replace the white by black and this is what I observed: many pixels that look white are not exactly white and this contains a lot of information

I think it is amazing how accurately It would be possible to predict my score at an Othello game just by looking at my opponent rating score

Trying to play midi sound with Pygame on a Linux PC. After 4 hours of installing libraries, drivers, utilities,... I give up. Sorry Linux after 44 years of experience in configuring computers and industrial systems, I still cannot understand how to configure ALSA, Libasound2, timidity, amidi...

Experimenting with W32 and C

A very old BCPL program found in my trash

Let's make a variant of my jump game to teach kids how to type faster (in addition to teach them how to program)

If I count correctly, I will need 96 relays (2 per rail switch an signals and 1 per uncoupler and Insulated tracks) . That' a lot of relays...

Starting a new design for model train control panel

I am quite happy with the smoothness of the sprite moves. #pygame #retrogaming experiment

A new chapter in my #pygame tutorial: How to make your game window resizable

Working on the sound chapter of my retro game programming tutorial in #pygame I have decided to use MIDI instead of wav or mp3 files so that the children do not spend their time searching for funny sound samples on the Internet instead of focalizing on the code.

Image of library book display labeled: “It's A Warning Not An Instruction Manual.” Books on display: • On Tyranny • Twenty Lessons From The 21st Century • 1984 • A Handmaids Tale • Diary of Anne Frank • Parable of The Sower • Fahrenheit 451 • Animal Farm • Brave New World ~TAiLS of a Bookworm

What book should I read while on vacation...

Even better, my retro #marklin rail switch controller now works with a #Raspberrypi touchscreen. But to make it work I had to comment a line in the .kivy/config.ini file to have a reliable behavior It is very frustrating to have to do thiss kind of tricks (programming should not be that obscure)

Testing rail switch controller with real #marklin hardware. After adding a drop of oil (those tracks are 60 years old) it works nicely.

Rifa 😨

chart drafted by a friend about the difference between indie and AA, and AAA game developers

Controlling 32 relays from a Linux PC. That's not enough for a large model railway layout but its already a promising solution

Let's build a model train signal controller with an #Arduino

Writing #fightingfantasy assistant on smartphone with #kivy . (Code written by Copilot AI and massively tuned by me)

Let's draw a maze with #Pygame

If you are using a windows computer so old it cannot boot on USB, be sure to have a bootable windows DVD to repair your bootsector in case of need. It is not possible anymore to download a bootable Windows DVD iso from @microsoft.com because the current version of windows10 does not fit on a DVD😭

With quite some help from A.I. , I was able to compile a simple demo of #SDL3 using C#. It is not very difficult to do but the lack of good documentation made my search for quite a long time. Is it possible that no tutorial exists for SDL3 + C# + .net8.0 + Visual studio ?

Writing a game using only A.I.: 1/It was fun 2/It was fast 3/I have learned a few tricks 4/Having 45 years of coding experience helped to know what to ask to the A.I., and how to solve the subtle mistakes in the code 5/The generated code is not great (it works but many line of code are duplicated)

Watching the stars. It is amazing how many stars you can see on a picture taken by an ordinary smartphone, in a city with a lot of light pollution

The centipede game is now publisehed on github: github.com/PPoliakoff/P...

This retro Centipede is nearly finished. Im ust just add the hiscore and some sounds

This begins to look like a centipede on Zx spectrum (retro games with #pygame )

Okay, the Dragon is ready for RetroFest ... but are you? 😀 retrofest.uk

Porting old 8 bits games to python again...

I try to make retrogame sound with simple code and without any external file or libray (other than Pygame) Using pygame.midi is the simplest solution I have found yet but I am not 100% satisfied with the result: this sounds more like a 16bits computer than an 8 bit computer.