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Brass_Machine:
Jeez... I don't pay attention for a little while and you have gone and built it!

I like the layout and it looks pretty good. I would like to build something similar... I would like to build a portable game emulator. I have a small android one right now, but it cannot emulate some of the games I wish to play.

Nice job!

Eric

S. Heslop:
Thanks Eric!

The last electronic device that ever impressed me was Sony's first PSP, with homebrew of course. It was impressive playing SNES and Megadrive games but when they brought out the PSX update (and it got cracked) that really blew my mind. It wasn't long after that when they brought out the iPhone and electronics never recovered.

I know the Raspberry Pis are fairly popular for emulating games, there's alot of stuff for that and they're pretty damned cheap. Having a look it seems they struggle with stuff like the n64 and Playstation, but they seem to run alot of the weirder stuff like the Wonderswan and Amstrad CPC. There's of course other Raspberry Pi like devices but from what i've read they don't get the same level of support and aren't a whole lot better. But i'd imagine the x86 based single board computers would emulate a whole bunch of games pretty well and have access to the whole gamut of emulators out there.

Shame the CD-i gets no love. It's not a good system but it has one extremely cool and weird game, Laser Lords, that's hard to play since there's no great emulator for the CD-i. I admire any game with an intro cutscene calling you the Chosen one who gets to wear the sacred robes, then one of the first guys you talk to says 'oh another one of you losers, I recognise the uniform'. And any game with multiple Peter Lorre impersonations. It's really full of neat ideas and surprises.

S. Heslop:
I'm all set to make one of those creepy children's youtubes. Isn't it great to live in a world where we get to see what childrens entertainment would look like if it were produced globally with absolutely no regulation or accountability.



This is the target colour. I kinda forgot its CMYK value but it was something like 85% magenta, 75% yellow, and 60% black.



And here's what I get if I mix it as .85ml magenta, .75 yellow, .60 black, and .15ish white. Or as close as I can get with a 10ml syringe.


I mixed the 3 paints before adding the black since I suspected that'd be overpowering.


And this is what it should look like. 


Looking at those blobs it seems like I dispensed about the same amount of yellow, or maybe even a little more, than magenta. So I wasn't really that accurate with the dispensing. The colour in that jpeg of the paint, averaged out, is M76, Y81, (and K31). Which is probably within the tolerance of what I can dispense and the white balance of the camera.

But i'm still confused. I think i'm going to get some smaller syringes so I can hopefully dispense more accurately. I also realise that different paints will probably have different pigment amounts. I should probably also consider how I can actually measure the colours more accurately so I can maybe get some actual data to compare.

Although it does frustrate me that this is clearly already a solved problem. But hell if I can find anything about it on the internet.

S. Heslop:
So much for that. The chemist closes at 1 on a saturday. I went to look at camper vans instead.

S. Heslop:
God damn. I bought some cables to try hook the tablet display to my desktop PC for convenience, and just as i'd feared it broke the drivers. Now I got no tablet!

Really i'm now just thinking if I want to uninstall the wacom drivers or the flaky chinese drivers to hopefully get one of them working. It'd be nice to have the display but the pen that goes with it isn't so great. And I could still use it as a regular graphics tablet on the main monitor by changing some settings in the drivers.

More than anything though i'm a little angry Windows isn't able to support multiple tablets. It can for mouse stuff but not for drawing stuff. But I imagine the exact thing I want to do isn't uncommon. Small cheaper pen display for inking and a larger better calibrated display with a regular tablet for colouring and painting.

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