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Bugs! What Are These Bugs?

Nix McRetro // 29th February 2016 // Categories: Nature, YouTube

What on Earth are these things? I found a collection of strange little bugs making a meal of the leaves on a privacy hedge. I had absolutely no idea what they were at the time, but they turned out to be bagworms of some description. Unfortunately, they were doing a... Continue reading

Canon 760D and PSIO Update

Nix McRetro // 28th February 2016 // Categories: News, Sony, YouTube

It looks like PSIO will be “Re-Available for Pre-Ordering March 1st 2016.” That’s only a couple of days away, and for once it’s in Australian time zones! Woohoo! I wasn’t sure what the “re-available” bit meant. I could have sworn I’d seen a 1st February pre-order date before it flicked... Continue reading

Circuit Bending a Sega Mega Drive 2

Nix McRetro // 20th February 2016 // Categories: Guides, Hacks, Sega

Here’s a little infographic on circuit bending the Mega Drive / Genesis Model 2, originally from Gijs at gieskes.nl. You can get some wonderfully broken graphics out of the VRAM. Maybe I should do another video - if only it also broke the audio… actually, I did mess around with... Continue reading

Creating a Sony PlayStation Modchip

Nix McRetro // 14th February 2016 // Categories: Hacks, Sony, YouTube

A quick look at programming PIC microcontrollers with Mayumi 4 or MultiMode3 modchip code. I was experimenting with PIC12C508, PIC12C508A and PIC12F629 devices, with the intention of making a modchip for a PAL Sony PlayStation using a PU-22 motherboard. I’ve somehow accumulated quite a collection of programmers, although getting any... Continue reading

Cloudflare CDN

Nix McRetro // 10th February 2016 // Categories: News

CDN means Content Delivery Network. They are marvellous things! Putting Cloudflare in front of this little Raspberry Pi web server sounded extremely useful. For web records configured through Cloudflare’s proxy, visitors connect to Cloudflare first rather than directly to the origin server. Cloudflare can then cache suitable content, filter traffic... Continue reading