Posted January 21, 2020 by Chris

“The Pi-Pocket is a mini portable games console capable of playing Gameboy, NES, Sega Master System, Game Gear games along with other popular Linux ported titles such as Doom and Duke Nukem using the popular Raspberry Pi emulator front-end known as RetroPie.”

Posted May 2, 2018 by Chris

"The UMDKv2 is basically a PROM emulator. It’s a small FPGA board connected to a USB MegaDrive Kit. UMDKv1 (link) Is also worth a look, it uses an AVR microcontroller as a PROM emulator."

Posted April 6, 2018 by Chris

"Hopefully the information I have posted here will help you all succeed in building your very own Nintendo Gameboy Flash Cartridges. Soon enough you’ll be up and testing your own custom code or custom games on the real hardware."

Posted August 25, 2017 by Chris

"The goal of this project was to build a wireless SNES controller that has the feel and action of the original hardware while also upgrading the interface from the SNES connector to a more modern USB connection."

Posted July 17, 2017 by Chris

"For the past few months, my friends and I have been planning to make our own laser tag system that we can play at home. The goal is to make a laser tag system that we can modify and program different game modes. Why are we doing his? We just want to play some laser tag, and learn a couple of things along the way."

Posted March 21, 2016 by Chris

"Combine an Arduino Uno, an Adafruit Servo Shield, Xbox 360 Controller, and a beat-up 1981 Kenner At-At Walker and the result is the toy I always wanted when I was a kid. If you played with this toy growing up you will probably remember how clumsy it was and difficult to move around."

Posted February 3, 2016 by Chris

"Three weeks before the Houston Maker Faire Chris came to me asking if we could whip up a low cost giveaway for the faire. I wanted to giveaway something more than a blinky LED badge since that is the typical electronic swag at Maker Faire. It had to be something that the person would wear and would want to show off to other Makers to spread the word about MacroFab. Blinking LEDs are always necessary though."

Posted November 15, 2015 by Chris

"This 5×5 LED Display Snake Game is the first stepping stone to a fully functional 3-D snake game on a 5x5x5 LED Cube which will be built in a future project. This introductory project serves to provide experience for soldering the LEDs and creating a framework for the more involved LED cube."

Posted October 30, 2015 by Chris

"This project is an attempt to recreate the classic game in a digital format. To spice things up a bit, instead of using the regular 2 player setup it uses an inbuilt AI mechanism to compete against the player."

Posted October 1, 2015 by Chris

"I went on my regular trip to the dumpster the other day, and found no less than two Nintendo 64 controllers. It’s time to connect them to a microcontroller!"