Adding a hinge to a Game Boy that God never intended
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Adding a hinge to a Game Boy that God never intended
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Re: Adding a hinge to a Game Boy that God never intended
#2>Purely in terms of industrial design, I don’t think a Nintendo handheld has matched the elegance of the SP.
100%.
Awesome post.
Re: Adding a hinge to a Game Boy that God never intended
#3I absolutely adore the Game Boy modding scene that’s exploded in the last few years.
Case overhauls like this or the Boxypixel slab pictured in the article, numerous backlit high-res IPS screen replacements, mods to improve sound, Li-ion battery packs with USB charging. And that’s to say nothing of Analogue or the MiSTer project, creating full FPGA reimplementations of the hardware.
It’s a really cool example of what some very creative and passionate people can do with commodity technology. The only downside is it’s actually becoming quite pricey to get original hardware.
Re: Adding a hinge to a Game Boy that God never intended
#4I lived down the block from that NYU makerspace and walked my dog past it every day.
I'm also a self-taught dev who's wanted to go back to college and get a degree for posterity.
So naturally applying to NYU made sense, get started on the education stuff I was putting off, get access to a really cool makerspace, etc. I talked to someone from admissions at the school, learned more about the process, but then we got to pricing and the fact I wouldn't qualify for assistance... well it turned out it was practically unaffordable for me, a senior SWE in NYC making a "FAANG-like" salary.
I say "practically" because technically I could pay it, but to what end? I'd be looking at over 150k over the next two years for a simple bachelors with no appreciable change to my career trajectory.
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It really blew my mind. I was making what their graduates can expect to make years out of school and the math wasn't working, how is it supposed to work for someone coming out of high school?
The cynic in me would look at that makerspace that easily had *40k in Ultimakers that never actually seemed to be printing anything peeking out the window and think "is this what they're paying for?", but I guess on the flip side you get things like this post?
* Actually I went and looked at an old picture, I only counted 8 or so in view of the window...
Re: Adding a hinge to a Game Boy that God never intended
#5I lived down the block from that NYU makerspace and walked my dog past it every day. I'm also a self-taught dev who's wanted to go back to college and get a degree for posterity. So naturally applying to NYU made sense, get started on the education stuff I was putting off, get access to a really cool makerspace, etc. I talked to someone from admissions at the school, learned more about the process, but then we got to…
What are you complaining about?
Re: Adding a hinge to a Game Boy that God never intended
#6I lived down the block from that NYU makerspace and walked my dog past it every day. I'm also a self-taught dev who's wanted to go back to college and get a degree for posterity. So naturally applying to NYU made sense, get started on the education stuff I was putting off, get access to a really cool makerspace, etc. I talked to someone from admissions at the school, learned more about the process, but then we got to…
What are you complaining about?
Presumably the amazing high cost of education and how it isn't always being used efficiently.
Re: Adding a hinge to a Game Boy that God never intended
#7I lived down the block from that NYU makerspace and walked my dog past it every day. I'm also a self-taught dev who's wanted to go back to college and get a degree for posterity. So naturally applying to NYU made sense, get started on the education stuff I was putting off, get access to a really cool makerspace, etc. I talked to someone from admissions at the school, learned more about the process, but then we got to…
What are you complaining about?
The idea that schools get to use 18 year olds as unsecured loans to build out extravagant facilities.
Then those 18 year olds grow up, can't pay back the loan, so the government uses bailing them out as a political bargaining chip.
Re: Adding a hinge to a Game Boy that God never intended
#8Just to confirm that I understand this correctly, that clear case is really 3D printed? I don't follow 3D printing too closely, but I did not think that something like this would be possible.
Re: Adding a hinge to a Game Boy that God never intended
#9Just to confirm that I understand this correctly, that clear case is really 3D printed? I don't follow 3D printing too closely, but I did not think that something like this would be possible.
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Re: Adding a hinge to a Game Boy that God never intended
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
What are you complaining about?
The idea that schools get to use 18 year olds as unsecured loans to build out extravagant facilities. Then those 18 year olds grow up, can't pay back the loan, so the government uses bailing them out as a political bargaining chip.
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