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Kawaii – A Keychain-Sized Nintendo Wii

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Re: Kawaii – A Keychain-Sized Nintendo Wii

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Post by jrockway »

wyldfire wrote: post #101
talldayo wrote: post #64

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Lawsuit to what? Their CAD files, the build instructions? The board shipped with the Nintendo Wii?

Using the word "nintendo" on something intended to play any kind of games is trademark infringement. The Kawaii devs likely don't intend to confuse people, but if a consumer saw this product for sale they'd rightly assume it's a Nintendo product. Using a brand name like this just makes things easier when Nintendo attorneys barely have to roll out of bed when sending a cease and desist order. Just call it Kawaii and s…

Many years ago I bought an Intel processor. It came with a sticker inside a book that was several pages of terms and conditions on what the sticker can be stuck on. Mentioned as something not to do was applying the sticker to a computing device that did not contain an Intel processor, so I immediately stuck it on my Switch.

Still not in prison.

Re: Kawaii – A Keychain-Sized Nintendo Wii

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Post by bigstrat2003 »

efilife wrote: post #152
IAmPym wrote: post #114

It's not called the Kawii?

Why Kawii? Kawaii is japanese for cute

Because then it would be a better pun on "Wii". I also thought that "kawaii" was kind of a missed opportunity, personally. I would've gone for "kawaii" or something.

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Post by frickinLasers »

parl_match wrote: post #36

I'm looking for recommendations for a 30~50 run anodized aluminum case, in a similar size as the Kawaii. Does anyone have any recommendations? The quotes I'm getting are closer to $95/pc and that seems quite high.

Have you tried https://www.xometry.com/ ?

They have a network of vetted shops who bid on jobs when otherwise unoccupied.

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Post by bpye »

GrantMoyer wrote: post #76

For reference, 60mm is less than the width of even a compact smartphone, and 16mm is 1.5 to 2 times as thick. This thing is tiny. Hell, it has about the same footprint as a gamecube disc .

It’s a hair smaller than a stack of 4 UMDs, the media the PSP used.

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Post by extraduder_ire »

0x1ch wrote: post #60
mattnewton wrote: post #38

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the "sensor" is actually in the remote. The bar is just two infrared leds seperated by a known distance, that the infrared camera in the remote uses to figure out it's position.

I play a bit of flightsim and our head tracking works the same way. Camera receives IR LED position for head movement axis, program does the interpretation of movement.

There's a homebrew head tracking demo [0] for the wii that has you put a sensor bar on your head, and a wiimote on top of your TV. I messed around with it over a decade ago and found it very convincing.

0: https://www.wiibrew.org/wiki/Headtracking

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Post by bpye »

klik99 wrote: post #136
pessimizer wrote: post #109

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Don't forget the Dreamcast. It got hacked on more than it got played.

It was def the dreamcast - the first model didn't require any hardware, just a burned CD-ROM. It's demise and Segas departure from consoles is blamed on the amount of piracy. A real shame, because it had some great games

The Dreamcast GPU was also really neat. It was tile based and could do order independent transparency!

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Post by imp0cat »

einr wrote: post #68
Laremere wrote: post #56

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That doesn't match my recollection. The Gameboy is a early counter example: it was black and white during a time where the game gear had color, yet the Gameboy was far more popular. Also I believe the Xbox was more powerful than the GameCube.

The Game Gear didn't come out until one and a half year later. It's easy to see how it wasn't even remotely practical to release a color handheld system in 1989, and it's easy to argue that it wasn't practical in 1990 either, but Sega did it anyway. So when the Game Boy came out it was easily the most powerful handheld system on the market (admittedly by virtue of being essentially the only one worth mentioning)

Also, the color screen on the Game Gear wasn't that great and the battery life was terrible. I think Sega had realized this, because later on they were selling an external battery pack as an official accessory.

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Post by imp0cat »

mejutoco wrote: post #57
Laremere wrote: post #56

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That doesn't match my recollection. The Gameboy is a early counter example: it was black and white during a time where the game gear had color, yet the Gameboy was far more popular. Also I believe the Xbox was more powerful than the GameCube.

I remember kids with the game gear. Hardly ever saw them playing because of the batteries. For a portable console I think it was a choice on battery life.

A "wall wart" power source was a necessity.
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