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Hacker. Relapsing denim snob. Spin class connoisseur and cyclocross wannabe.

Boston / Atlanta
Joined July 2012
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@TheDukeZip
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28 days
Fixed it by telling Steam I live in California. Seems to be related to content on Atlanta servers
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@TheDukeZip
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28 days
Anybody else in the world trying to install Tron: Catalyst (PC, Steam) and getting Corrupt Download every time at ~586.2MB? Uninstalled, rebooted, etc. Always the same @troncatalyst @BithellGames @BigFanPresents
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@TheDukeZip
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2 months
RT @ronrule: I got a ton of messages after posting my vintage charging station conversion, so I made this thread to share how I did it and….
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@TheDukeZip
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3 months
I started playing Disney Speedstorm because they put Tron in this season, for this brief moment in time I’m the #1 Quorra in the world in Ranked Multiplayer
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@TheDukeZip
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3 months
Tron merch at @WaltDisneyWorld Orlando has gone downhill in the 10 months since I was here last. “The Translite replica and arcade box action figures sold out? Definitely don’t reorder those, keep selling the stuff that doesn’t sell”. Loaded up as best I could anyways
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@TheDukeZip
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7 months
I thought this was a good demo of how some beginner level hardware hacking and maker skills can go a long way to make something special for yourself or your loved ones!. Happy Holidays!. 9/9.
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@TheDukeZip
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7 months
Lastly, we fasten some velcro onto the cabinet, allowing us to switch out the topper later, or maybe even add to it, such as these functional mini arcade cabinets. 8/9
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@TheDukeZip
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7 months
We need a USB port on the cabinet to power this. Luckily the @arcade_1up cabinets have a USB port inside, presumably for loading or recovering firmware, it just needs to be extended to the top of the cab with a ~1" drill bit. I assume this is a quite common mod. 7/9
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@TheDukeZip
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7 months
We need to turn him into Ms Pac Man, easy enough with some 3D printed parts and some multi-color prints. 6/9
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@TheDukeZip
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7 months
With a contender for the simplest firmware ever, it's trivial to program, wire up, and hot glue the PCB and microphone back into place. 5/9
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@TheDukeZip
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7 months
I have an @adafruit KB2040 that I got for free with an order some time ago, it's been super useful for many prototypes, but it became sacrificial in this project. It can be powered by +3.3V through the RAW pin and has GPIO suitable for pretending to be a button. 4/9
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@TheDukeZip
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7 months
We pop this baby open and identify a possible JTAG or programming interface, but it seems like way too much work to see if it's possible to extract and modify the firmware. It's much easier to add a cheap microcontroller and simulate a button push on power on. 3/9
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@TheDukeZip
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7 months
No time to build something from scratch, but I liked the idea of using this Pac Man lamp from @paladone. It had a few problems, first of all it's Pac Man and not Ms Pac Man, and when it receives power, it doesn't automatically light up. It starts "off" in "Mode 4". 2/9
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@TheDukeZip
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7 months
My daughters have been asking for a Ms Pac Man machine (specifically a Class of 1981 machine, long story). But I couldn't bear to have this thing appear on Christmas morning without a special custom topper. Let's talk about all the hacks necessary to make this happen. 1/9
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@TheDukeZip
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7 months
Got to try the @shakeshack / @Delta collab meal. This thing was the bomb. Best first class meal ever
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@TheDukeZip
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8 months
I’ve gotten to watch the end of round 1 a dozen times so far.
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@TheDukeZip
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8 months
I’ve earned a months of @netflix credit clicking to reload into the stream about 200x so far. What an embarrassment.
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@TheDukeZip
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9 months
RT @ProjectPinball: Project Pinball Charity’s World Cup Soccer appearing at Mass Gen Hospital during the Hospital’s Feature during the Patr….
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@TheDukeZip
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9 months
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@TheDukeZip
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9 months
The @ProjectPinball World Cup 94 pinball machine at Mass General Hospital made an appearance in the background of a clip about the hospital during the Patriots game today ❤️.
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