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Putting a Raspberry Pi in my bagged truck – Part 2 – Integrating N-Mosfets with GPIO

In this installment I have added the mosfet’s and an adhoc wireless network to the lowPI. In order to communicate with the raspberry pi when I am not by a wireless access point a netgear WNA1000M usb wireless card was added and configured to operate in Ad-Hoc mode. This was fairly easy to accomplish and [...]

Ubuntu Arcade Machine – Part 2 – The Cabinet

With the software nearly complete it was time to begin working on the cabinet to house our arcade machine.  For this we went with a modified cocktail style cabinet.  The dimensions are fairly close to the standard cocktail table style, but with 2 major changes.  The first being that the monitor is not mounted in [...]

Ubuntu Arcade Machine – Part 1 – Wahcade and MAME

For xmas this year, my father and I decided it would be fun to build a home arcade machine for the kids’ xmas. Seriously, what kid wouldn’t love having nintendo, super nintendo, and arcade games at their very fingertips, and in the living room coffee table no less.