Look at this thing:
This thing came in like 5 billion pieces, putting it together was definitely an experience of all time. I managed to do it without breaking anything.
Though, now that it is done, I must begin a quest of vengeance against whoever designed that stupid clear strip underneath the circuit thingy. Just about went mad trying to get that part done.
A family member got me a subscription to this "Hack Pack" thing, because apparently I dont get enough mystery boxes in the mail each month. For all of my computer and tech knowledge, I'm not familiar with the more physical side of the whole thing. This is only the second thing I've really put together from scratch, with the first one being the Raspberry Pi box I put together a couple of years ago to use as a portable emulation archive. I'd had the idea to try something like this for awhile.
The other half of it is coding. It has basic functionality via that remote on the left, but there's another connector on the other side of the gizmo to connect that to a PC (or to my phone if I want to do the awkward connection of the Dex unit + keyboard and monitor), and then coding goes from there. Arduino. I have no idea what I'm doing.
That part can wait though until I no longer feel like my arms are going to fall off.
I have also realized the importance of doing this sort of thing in rooms with good lighting. The room I'm in was designed to mimic a movie theater... that's what the white on the wall there is, it's a huge screen. There's no ceiling lights on the screen side of the room, so I use a pair of very awkward desk & floor lamps. It's fine for my board games, but for something like this it is clearly not the right type of space for it. It was very hard to see the freaking tiny screws to get them in there.
And now to celebrate I'm going to go play Q*Bert or other arcade and/or Atari games. Simple stuff that wont get me all tense. Cant go wrong with the classics.
This thing came in like 5 billion pieces, putting it together was definitely an experience of all time. I managed to do it without breaking anything.
Though, now that it is done, I must begin a quest of vengeance against whoever designed that stupid clear strip underneath the circuit thingy. Just about went mad trying to get that part done.
A family member got me a subscription to this "Hack Pack" thing, because apparently I dont get enough mystery boxes in the mail each month. For all of my computer and tech knowledge, I'm not familiar with the more physical side of the whole thing. This is only the second thing I've really put together from scratch, with the first one being the Raspberry Pi box I put together a couple of years ago to use as a portable emulation archive. I'd had the idea to try something like this for awhile.
The other half of it is coding. It has basic functionality via that remote on the left, but there's another connector on the other side of the gizmo to connect that to a PC (or to my phone if I want to do the awkward connection of the Dex unit + keyboard and monitor), and then coding goes from there. Arduino. I have no idea what I'm doing.
That part can wait though until I no longer feel like my arms are going to fall off.
I have also realized the importance of doing this sort of thing in rooms with good lighting. The room I'm in was designed to mimic a movie theater... that's what the white on the wall there is, it's a huge screen. There's no ceiling lights on the screen side of the room, so I use a pair of very awkward desk & floor lamps. It's fine for my board games, but for something like this it is clearly not the right type of space for it. It was very hard to see the freaking tiny screws to get them in there.
And now to celebrate I'm going to go play Q*Bert or other arcade and/or Atari games. Simple stuff that wont get me all tense. Cant go wrong with the classics.
