…a blog with awesome projects. A collection of overcomplicated devices nobody needs. A sanctum for all the things that did not get living room clearance, but oughta be seen by fellow nerds.
02 October 2025
UPDATE A FEW HOURS LATER: Turns out that Natalie the Nerd beat me to it by a few hours. But she did not just beat me in terms of releasing a bit earlier, but also in functionality, style and execution. I fully admit defeat in this undeclared race that every nerd with a public channel just seems to secretly have competed in. I will be forming a “Natalie beat us” support group with all the other just-a-little-too-late-and-not-quite-as-good projects that will be popping up over the next weeks :)
Well, ok, there actually is a Lego Game Boy and it has just been released today yesterday. What there actually oughta be is a real display for it, which this blog post is about.
If you just want to see it in action, check out the Youtube video. If you want to add a display to your own Lego Game Boy, read on for all the details on how to do this.
21 July 2025
Another one of my cousins got married, so it was time for another photo/video booth. This time it uses a Game Boy Camera and a Game Boy Printer.
The video above gives a good overview of the project. The blog entry below contains a few more technical details as well as links to source code and additional resources.
10 January 2025
What is the easiest way to create a ROM with a slideshow of your own images for your Game Boy? How about opening a website, dragging your images into the site and hitting a generate button? That’s it. That’s what I created here.
Check out this rather short Youtube video to see the tool in action or just look at the top of this post to try it out yourself.
07 December 2024
Do you own a Sony camera? Then you probably know the pain of trying to use a phone to remotely trigger the camera. I gave up on using Wifi and the official Play Memories app for that. …or Imaging Edge or whatever it is called now. For quite a while I have been carrying a primitive IR remote, when I learned that my α6400 actually can be controlled via Bluetooth. So, I created the app that I wished Sony would provide. Of course it’s free and open source.
The video is mostly about my process of going through all the options to remotely trigger my camera and, yes, I took this as an excuse to create my first “Top 5” listicle. It is a good starting point if you want to know what problem this app solves and if it is for you. This article here will go into more detail of how the app works, how to control the camera via Python, what the app can do, what it cannot do and how to automate the app from other apps like Tasker.
30 December 2023
Just a quick update on two things that happened recently without being a new projekt:
