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Hacks are our tips and how-to tutorials. If you want to know how to do something then this is the category for you!

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Hacks are our tips and how-to tutorials. If you want to know how to do something then this is the category for you!

Beginners guide to Blender for 3D printed tabletop

Beginner’s Guide to Blender for 3D Printed Props and Tabletop Gaming (Part 1)

Blender is a fully featured 3D design tool with abilities ranging from regular CAD and sculpting all the way through to fully rendered movie-quality CGI animation. Now, obviously, Z-Brush is highly …

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Keyboard Control and Character Movement: Coding a Retro Game with C Part 3

In this tutorial we will write a cross-platform, retro C program that accepts keyboard control of a text-based player character on screen.

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Getting Started Programming in C: Coding a Retro Game with C Part 2

Programming in C traditionally starts with outputting “Hello World” to the text console/terminal command-line. In the previous C tutorial we looked at that code but didn’t examine …

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Coding a Retro Game: Learn to Code in C

Learn to code in C and create your own retro games with this free multi-part C programming tutorial series. But first, why learn to program in C? TL;DR C is one of the most sought-after languages in …

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Retro Computer & Video Games Timeline

History of Retro Games – Retro Computer and Video Games Timeline from the 1970s to 1990s

Retro computing and retro games have had a renaissance. I love it. The community has never been so vibrant. As I write this, my friend Andy has won an award for his brand new Commodore Vic 20 computer …

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Quit Zoom Call Macro Key – How to Make a Custom Cherry MX USB Macro Keyboard/Keypad with Arduino

Ever wondered how to create your own custom keyboard or keypad? Do you want a fast way to quit out of Zoom calls? Today we’re going to be making our own custom Arduino macro USB keyboard. Well, …

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Automating Twitter Using Python 3 and Tweepy

So far I have covered more Arduino/C and even AMOS Basic than anything else, but my main language on the daily is Python, and my main use of Python is for making my day job life easier! Python is an …

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Easiest. Hackintosh. Ever. – How to Install MacOS Virtual Machine on Your PC Using Sosumi & Ubuntu

Today, we’re going to create the world’s easiest Hackintosh using the virtual MacOS package, Sosumi.

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Grove Ultrasonic Rangefinder Sensor

Ultrasonic Rangefinding with the Wio Terminal and Grove Ultrasonic Sensor

Seeed sent me a Wio Terminal to play with, and I have to say I am impressed. Rather than do a straight review, I thought I would show how easy it is to make a quick project with it.

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Programming the Amiga with AMOS BASIC: A Playable “Shoot ’em up” Game

In the final (for now, at least) entry in this series, we are going to pull everything together into a playable “Shoot the Invaders from Space” game that has keyboard and joystick control, …

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Programming the Amiga with AMOS BASIC: Animation & Scrolling with AMAL

There is one last popular option for scrolling the screen and covering it gives us an opportunity to introduce the special AMOS animation language, AMAL … Previous AMOS Basic Tutorials in this …

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