dj505

dj505

@5panel.dance

Arcade Technician! Rhythm Games | Programming | PCB, Hardware & Graphic Design | Electronics | Arcade Game Content™ // @dj505_ on the other site https://5panel.dance ↙️↖️⏺️↗️↘️ Pump it Up • Expert Lv. 3

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hi hello I'm dj! I'm a Canadian arcade technician, and I play music games and make cool things! Music games: • PIU • ITG • SMX • Chunithm • Many more! Other hobbies: • PCB design (KiCAD) & electronics • Programming • Mechanical keyboards • 3D printing & CNC • Retro console modding & restoration

The only "AI" I use for my artwork is Adobe Illustrator CS5 🫡 I'm working on an ITG pack! First one I've attempted since like 2015-ish. I've been super into modern ITG tech lately, and charting it has been really interesting! Can't wait to have enough done for a teaser :)

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Previously I have posted about a Nintendo of Europe downloadable premium animated wallpaper that featured a bizarre Toad eating the wallpaper. The files have finally been datamined, allowing the Wallpaper-Eating Toad to be observed in never-before-seen maximum quality.

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Repost if $30k would change your life right now

Matt Darling@besttrousers.bsky.social

I don't think $30k is a life-changing amount of money. Median American born in 1980 will have $2m in income in their lifetime. It's a 1% increase in earnings.

PIU Phoenix 2 upgrade kit arrived! Marquee, however, is stuck in a separate shipment. Had to make do until that arrives lmao

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Was walking past this building and through the window saw this backrooms-ass room, so I accidentally took the coolest picture ever due to the window's reflection

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www.gofundme.com/f/fund-expen... Hey! We have the last Aerosmith: Quest For Fame in the world. We're trying to crowdfund to cover the expenses to preserve it. This is a unique piece of rhythm game history, and we plan to place it in a public arcade! Any support would be wildly appreciated!

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I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

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Years in the making, I finally have a working prototype of my Camera GBD-M2 (previously shared as Game Boy Camera M2). A sequel to the Game Boy Camera M1, this new redesign uses original Game Boy Pocket & Game Boy Camera chips into a camera-like shape roughly the same size as the Ricoh GR III.

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Urgent question for ITG players. Which color do you use if you play with Simply love theme? Please answer asap. Sharing for the reach is greatly appreciated.

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have you seen the new BMS song? it's on maimai. it's literally in arcaea. it's on lanota with ads. it's literally in chunithm. you can probably find it in wacca. dude it's in orzmic. it's a phigros original. i've played it in cytus. they put it in ravon. it's in ongeki. ongeki has it for you.

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Since Google revealed its plans for an AI search overhaul, visits to our "No AI" search page have tripled…and they’re still rising! Want to make it your default on Chrome or Firefox? Grab our No-AI extensions and banish AI-assisted answers, chat, and AI images. (1/3)

The overlap between Pebble watch owners and StepManiaX players probably isn't big, but I recently published my first watchapp - a lil SMX companion! I'm very new to C and JS, so I'm proud to have made something functional :) Compatible with all non-round models! apps.repebble.com/136139ee8be1...

apps.repebble.comSMX Buddy - Pebble AppstoreAll the StepManiaX stats you wanna see, right on your wrist! SMX Buddy pulls useful data, like your 3-digit QuickPIN, profile QR code, step statistics, and i

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Susan Arendt@susanarendt.bsky.social

Ok, look. I didn't love Jet Set Radio Future. The color palette didn't work for me and if memory serves, the controls were just different enough to make it tough to find my groove. BUT. "The Concept of Love" is an all-time banger.

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New Arrivals at ARCstage! 2x Vewlix Fighting Game Cabs Custom ITG (In The Groove) setup As we roll these out and fine tune these cabs, we will have them priced down to 10 credits for the next week or two. Hope to see you all here!

I don't know how many of yall actively keep up with my silly little projects & stuff, but now that I'm making more things worth posting about, I think it's worth mentioning for anyone that might stumble upon them: I don't support generative AI, and I don't use it in any part of anything I make!

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I ported Super Monkey Ball to a website. You can access it in the replies. (or just type what you see in the video, I'm not your boss.)

Major progress! I did have to cheat a bit using the internal layers to route some power traces, but that should be fine, I think. All the important stuff is routed over unbroken ground. But this makes my first real 4-layer design! Test batch coming soon, after I make the silkscreen look nice 💪

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Meshlet v2 on the way!! I managed to shrink down the PCB plenty without losing features! Just no more unnecessary parts for debugging or testing (or because I misread the datasheet lol oops) This board clocks in at only 42*32mm -- and it shouldn't die as soon as the wifi module tries to transmit!

Meshlet v2 on the way!! I managed to shrink down the PCB plenty without losing features! Just no more unnecessary parts for debugging or testing (or because I misread the datasheet lol oops) This board clocks in at only 42*32mm -- and it shouldn't die as soon as the wifi module tries to transmit!

This is a very early set of screenshots, and it's nowhere near done. Probably gonna be another 1-2 months before I can even think about testing it. But it's very satisfying learning from the prototyping process, and actually fixing my silly mistakes :) I got rid of over a dozen unnecessary parts!

There's something extra satisfying about designing your own hardware. Not just the 3D printed shell, but the electronics inside, too. Like. I *made* that!! For once I didn't just put an off-the-shelf board into a neat little case!! Now that I know what needs revising, I can get started on v2 🥳

Got some updates after a day of testing! Things that work: - LiPo charging via both inputs! - Solar charging, even with those tiny cheap 5v panels! - BME280 temp/etc sensor - 3 channel power monitoring - WiFi! Things that don't: - Trying to use a single 200mA 3v3 LDO to power everything. - Oops.

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Signs of life!! Just waiting on the radio modules...

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For v0.2, I added dedicated LDOs for the RP2350, LoRa radio, and all the smaller peripherals - 3 in total! The WiFi module now draws power directly from the battery chip's output. Last but certainly not least, I added a bunch of decoupling caps that I somehow managed to miss the first time around.

If this one works out, I'm thinking of rebuilding the PCB from scratch on a 4-layer PCB. I've only ever worked with 2 layer boards before so if anyone has any tips/tricks/resources it would be a big help!

Got some updates after a day of testing! Things that work: - LiPo charging via both inputs! - Solar charging, even with those tiny cheap 5v panels! - BME280 temp/etc sensor - 3 channel power monitoring - WiFi! Things that don't: - Trying to use a single 200mA 3v3 LDO to power everything. - Oops.

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Signs of life!! Just waiting on the radio modules...

I'm not sure what I was thinking, but it was probably "yeah 200mA will be enough" before I fell victim to the feature creep. The WiFi radio alone draws ~270mA in bursts whenever it tries to trasmit, lol.

Almost there... 👀

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I posted a lil teaser about this PCB last month but didn't really elaborate! This is the "Meshlet," a LoRa node I designed around the RP2350 that supports some super neat features. It's meant for use with #meshtastic, hence the logo and stuff, but it can be pretty versatile. Features include...

dj505@5panel.dance

I posted a lil teaser about this PCB last month but didn't really elaborate! This is the "Meshlet," a LoRa node I designed around the RP2350 that supports some super neat features. It's meant for use with #meshtastic, hence the logo and stuff, but it can be pretty versatile. Features include...

We have some games at work with bad steering potentiometeers. The old ones are discontinued, and the output range on the new model is backwards, which means the steering is also backwards. Turns out, they're not real potentiometers. They're hall effect sensors in disguise. How do you fix this...?

Obviously, you look up the sensor datasheet, do some light reverse engineering on the PCB, snip some traces, and pull the "DIR" pin listed in the datasheet high to reverse the output direction! Shoutouts to the manufacturer for not laser etching the IC part numbers out :)