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YveltalGriffin

@mks.bsky.social

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Electrical engineer, video game hardware/software enthusiast, modder, portablizer. ✨👾✨

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YveltalGriffin @mks.bsky.social · Aug 30

Got burned by this one a few years back. The red LED in this series has a flipped markings relative to every other color

Reposted by YveltalGriffin

Tomb👻Time @tubetime.bsky.social · Aug 24

i reverse-engineered the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5! check it out at github.com/schlae/cm5-r...

board layout in KiCad with lots of layers and colors

YveltalGriffin @mks.bsky.social · Aug 7

I use postale.io for basic email hosting. $1/month for two 1GB mailboxes and three aliases. Not sure how it compares to ProtonMail

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YveltalGriffin @mks.bsky.social · Jul 16

Tablet Magazine puff piece that goes into detail about his white supremacist worldview, including his desire to combat 'great replacement' to preserve Western society. Literally The Fourteen Words.

www.tabletmag.com/feature/amer...

Palmer Luckey, American Vulcan

Tablet features news, essays, podcasts, and opinion, covering arts, pop culture, technology, holidays, sports, and more.

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YveltalGriffin @mks.bsky.social · Jul 16

The founder is enthusiastically pro-genocide. MR is his blood money funded pet project

YveltalGriffin @mks.bsky.social · Jul 10

1000%. ModRetro tried to recruit me, but I refuse to work for such a monstrous individual, at a place funded by dirty Anduril money. Free Palestine!

YveltalGriffin @mks.bsky.social · Jul 10

There's no recreation or emulation happening here. Kawaii contains an official Wii motherboard, heavily trimmed down with a Dremel!

But yes, Wiis can be trimmed much smaller than GameCubes, and also use much less power.

YveltalGriffin @mks.bsky.social · Jul 10

Thank you! It's CNC machined aluminum anodized in cyan and laser etched to create the artwork. @dingding-cnc.bsky.social did a fantastic job with all the machining and post processing.

YveltalGriffin @mks.bsky.social · Jul 10

Some more glamour shots ✨🟦✨

Kawaii is 100% open source. Please check out the GitHub repo! github.com/mackieks/Kaw...

YveltalGriffin @mks.bsky.social · Jul 10

And yes, there really is an entire Wii inside! It plays GameCube games beautifully.

The magnetic dock breaks out analog audio, component video, and four GC controller ports.

YveltalGriffin @mks.bsky.social · Jul 10

I'm stoked to have finally finished the Kawaii, a fully functional metal Wii keychain. It's way smaller than it looks— only as big as a Game Boy cartridge! ✨🟦✨

Huge thanks to @weskmods.bsky.social and @dingding-cnc.bsky.social for being awesome project partners!

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Weskmods @weskmods.bsky.social · Jul 9

The Nintendo Kawaii, a collaboration project between myself, @mks.bsky.social and @dingding-cnc.bsky.social has finally been released fully open source!

If you're brave enough to build one you'll have one of the most unique pieces of gaming jewellery ever.

Info here: bitbuilt.net/forums/index...

YveltalGriffin @mks.bsky.social · Jun 21

Looks great, dude!

YveltalGriffin @mks.bsky.social · Feb 19

Oh, you said flex PCBs... I magnet the stencil down on top of flexes... 😖

YveltalGriffin @mks.bsky.social · Feb 19

My strategy is designing jig PCBs. Works extremely well! If you wanted to, you could add holes for steel locating pins to the jig PCB and stencil. github.com/mackieks/thu...

YveltalGriffin @mks.bsky.social · Nov 26

It's a snazzy Wii power hat with software-controlled undervolting, created by me and @loopj.com!

Fully open source: github.com/mackieks/thu...

GitHub - mackieks/thundervolt: Stylish, highly integrated power hat for Nintendo Wii, with software-controlled undervolting

Stylish, highly integrated power hat for Nintendo Wii, with software-controlled undervolting - mackieks/thundervolt

YveltalGriffin @mks.bsky.social · Nov 26

Thanks! A flex would totally work, but I decided to experiment with MHF4 for fun. Plus like you said, they're pretty optimal for transmitting analog audio+video in such a cramped and noisy environment.

YveltalGriffin @mks.bsky.social · Nov 26

It's aliiiive!!! 💙

YveltalGriffin @mks.bsky.social · Nov 26

Kawaii internal PCB wiring ft. AVEflex and nandFlex

YveltalGriffin @mks.bsky.social · Nov 26

Hollywood-2 (Wii Mini) OMEGA trim with Thundervolt. This is for my Kawaii project (collab with @weskmods.bsky.social and @haoxuanding2)

bitbuilt.net/forums/index...

YveltalGriffin @mks.bsky.social · Nov 20

There are still chargers on the market with 12V! (takes a good long while for things to become fully spec compliant, and may things never do)

20V is not good for charging 1S batteries, the config all Wii portables use, so I opted for the four lower-voltage PDOs.

YveltalGriffin @mks.bsky.social · Nov 19

The pinstrappable PDO selection also works as expected! 🥳

YveltalGriffin @mks.bsky.social · Nov 19

The pinstrappable PDO selection also works as expected! 🥳

YveltalGriffin @mks.bsky.social · Nov 19

My LT6711A board works perfectly! It draws about 1W when converting 1080p HDMI to DP Alt Mode. ⚡

YveltalGriffin @mks.bsky.social · Nov 17

The LT6711A can do DP Alt Mode with USB, but I prefer an external microSD slot on my portables. Someone else on BitBuilt is working on their own LT6711A module with USB for those that want it.

YveltalGriffin @mks.bsky.social · Nov 17

It's all under NDA