This is a blogpost I’ve been meaning to write for a long time, it’s about a game Nils and I wrote back in January 2017 for the Inno Games game Jam. That game jam happened together with the global game jam and the topic was: Waves. The source code for the game can be found here

Nils and I both like challenges and even before going to the game jam we had decided to write a game for the original Gameboy (1989) and we decided to write it in assembler. This was inspired by the Ultimate Gameboy Talk at the 33c3 that happened in December of 2016, so we bought a Gameboy Advance and a Cartridge that is capable of reading SD cards. Both arrived about a week before the jam and we hacked together a quick prototype just to get a feeling for the architecture and the instruction set. I also ended up writing an IntelliJ IDEA plugin that supports Z80 assembler and integrated the RGDS toolchain (assembler and linker) as well as the emulator.

Long time no blog post, so I figured, I might as well write a blog post about something super boring: Modding my 3D Printer!

For quite a while now I’ve been running OctoPrint on a Raspberry Pi as my print server, as it’s much more convenient than shoving G-Code onto the SD card and then printing from there. However, this has one downside: I had to have the Pi close by the printer since they communicate via USB with each other.

Guys, guys, guys… I have been working on a project for a couple of weekends now and to make a long story short it’s a watchface and watchapp generator for the Pebble Time for iOS. The basic idea is that it allows putting watchfaces/watchapps together easily and then deploying them on the Pebble that is attached to the iOS device.

Here is a video of the whole thing in action, note that the iPad simulator uses US keyboard layout and I only have my German one, so, yeah, you can watch me stumble over the keyboard quite a bit at times: