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A 3D illusion art piece showing two layered pixel-style alien figures, one white and one red, seemingly floating above a grid of rounded blue squares on a black base. The print is laid on a green cutting mat.

PNG2ObjV3 Released, Convert PNGs to 3D Printable OBJ or SVG Files

After years of development, I've released PNG2ObjV3 — a free, open-source tool to convert PNG images into 3D-printable OBJ files or scalable SVGs. It's perfect for retro projects, pixel art, optical illusions, and more. Includes full manual and sample images. Cross-platform, Python-powered.

GB Operator – Preserve Your GameBoy Cartridges

It's 2022, you've a bunch of GameBoy Cartridges gathering dust and you want to transfer them to your favourite emulator and play, or you're a developer wanting to try their software on real hardware. Then the GB Operator is a device you need in your hardware arsenal. We take a look, see what you think.

GreaseWeazle and XCode 12

Those of us who are using Keir Frasers amazing GreaseWeazle on macOS, may run into some issues from today 17th September 2020, if your macOS has updated to XCode 12. This article shows my solution to resolving the issue.

Amstrad CPC Magnum Light Gun

Recently I was asked to provide some information on the Amstrad Magnum Light Gun, and so I fired up the old hardware, loaded up my Assembler and Monitoring Tools and set about reverse engineering this legacy and rare piece of kit.

Old School Arcade – PiCade

Building the PiCade Mini Arcade Cabinet brought back so many memories of Arcades in the 80's and my final build is no exception.

Install Games/Roms to your Retropie build.

In the demonstration, I'm going to use the Oliver Twins amazing "Wonderland Dizzy" a game they have donated for free as part of unreleased software they created over 20 years ago for the NES.