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Tom Granger

@tomgranger.bsky.social

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Maker of random things, co-maker of one person, Google Arts & Culture engineer. I like pixels. he/him. Also on mastodon and the other thing.

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Tom Granger @tomgranger.bsky.social · Jan 12

(Re-)Introducing my upcycled Sony FX-300 "Jackal" radio from 1978.

Teensy + ESP32 powered, 2.8" IPS display and feature packed! Bluetooth, FM radio, recorder, and more ✨

Starting a short 🧵 with additional videos (some details in captions), and code link at the end! ⤵️

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Tom Granger @tomgranger.bsky.social · 3d

This looks absolutely gorgeous and here's a working link store.steampowered.com/app/4102890/...

The Many Sins of House Ocampo on Steam

The bloody roots of the Ocampo family tree run deep and dark in this mystery point-and-click adventure. Investigate the last moments of your ancestors and put together the pieces of the family's macab...

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4102890/The_Many_Sins_of_House_Ocampo/⬅️

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Taki Udon @takiudon.bsky.social · 4d

I just want to put this out into the universe.

If you are a homebrew developer of a GB, GBC, GBA, NES, SMS, MD/Genesis, N64, or PS1 game with a free version or a free demo of you game, I’d love to ship it with SuperStation as a physical or digital demo disk.

Taki Udon @takiudon.bsky.social · 4d

This is a very impressive PS1 game by @eliasdaler.bsky.social running on SuperStation.

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Tom Granger @tomgranger.bsky.social · 4d

N³. A modern PS1 game, running on S² FPGA console, feeding analog CRTs? That is niche cubed and we're here for it.

Tom Granger @tomgranger.bsky.social · 17d

I've never used Notion. What are the advantages of using Notion as a CMS for a personal website vs for example simple markdown pages?

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Tom Granger @tomgranger.bsky.social · 19d

@takiudon.bsky.social if I may, the comm wasn't clear on what was expected, not mentioning that email address (had to look up the "reply to" field without replying). You could've written 3 mailto html links prefilled prefilled email topics and bodies, or a Google form link, and put those at the top.

Tom Granger @tomgranger.bsky.social · 19d

Even blue ones? The original store page for FE mentioned clear blue ones would not be.

Tom Granger @tomgranger.bsky.social · 26d

Code here github.com/t0mg/midi-re...

Tom Granger @tomgranger.bsky.social · 26d

🎹🔴 Twas oddly difficult to find a free, web based MIDI recorder + player for my spouse's piano sessions.

So I made t0mg.github.io/midi-recorder 100% from my phone with Gemini (AI Studio + jules.google.com), GitHub, svgomg and inline editing.

A bit of a meta experiment, with a tangible outcome 🎶

MIDI Recorder

t0mg.github.io

Tom Granger @tomgranger.bsky.social · 29d

Hear me out: a highly accurate fiction film set in the 1990 Atari/Amiga coding scene. No mainstream producer would produce that. But a crowd of nerds just might.

- "Where do I sign", you ask?
- fr.ulule.com/demo-par-ale...

Sure it's in French but if you contribute enough there will be subtitles 😏

DEMO - Un film double face / double densité par Alex Pilot

Une plongée fascinante dans l'univers des coders amateurs sur Atari ST et Amiga.

fr.ulule.com

Tom Granger @tomgranger.bsky.social · Oct 1

I asked Gemini to decrypt the redacted tagline in @mrsambarlow.bsky.social's Project D (store.steampowered.com/app/2640200/...).

The response is obviously hallucinated (there is no such text in P.T.) but I'm very puzzled by how eerily specific it feels given that I gave zero context. Kinda spooky!

A screenshot from a Gemini chat.

My prompt:
Find what was redacted based on the character counts in the below paragraph.

Something bad ███ ████████ ██ █████ ███ ███ ███ █████ ███████ ██████ ████. Some doors ████ ████ ███ ██████████. Some doors ████ ████ ██████████. ███ ███ ███ home?

Gemini's response:
Based on the character counts, the redacted paragraph is from the radio broadcast in the horror video game P.T. (the playable teaser for the cancelled game Silent Hills).
Here is the full text:
"Something bad has happened to Frank and his new family friends inside this home. Some doors will not be unlockable. Some doors will stay permanently. Are you two home?"

Tom Granger @tomgranger.bsky.social · Sep 28

Would you please stop rubbing salt on those of us who didn't get a chance to pick that one 😏

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Tom Granger @tomgranger.bsky.social · Sep 12

Thanks for sharing updates here, Taki. I was wondering since you were experimenting with N64 carts, if you ever considered making different docks for the SS1, eg with cartridge slots instead of the optical drive. Also, do you have any hint to share about what the dock's io port is meant for? :)

Tom Granger @tomgranger.bsky.social · Sep 10

😏

Tom Granger @tomgranger.bsky.social · Sep 6

Must be funny

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Jon Ingold @jon.inkle.co · Sep 1

After Expelled came out we looked around for our next project, considering mechanical successors to Highland, 80 Days, Heaven’s Vault…

… and settled on a design that looked “simple”, has a completely new-to-us-anyway loop and narrative architecture.

It wasn’t simple :(

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Tom Granger @tomgranger.bsky.social · Aug 26

I suspect this panel's backstage might be about murders on trains.

Tom Granger @tomgranger.bsky.social · Aug 26

I see. The ant wouldn't have to respond nor understand though. I guess you described an incremental game with no button and I pictured an incremental game with buttons that aren't connected to anything 🙂

Tom Granger @tomgranger.bsky.social · Aug 25

Noted :) I've run into some issues and had a few emails with Waveshare support, it might take longer than I expected, but I'm not giving up!

Tom Granger @tomgranger.bsky.social · Aug 25

Ok but give it the ability to talk the ant out of its plans.

Still from the 1995 movie City of Lost Children, showing Irvin, a brain in a vat fitted with extremely steampunk looking input/output interfaces.

Tom Granger @tomgranger.bsky.social · Aug 25

Made a lil puzzle treasure chest for an event.

An Arduino monitors 8 reed switches under the lid, triggered by the 🧩s (plywood top + MDF mid layer to hold a magnet + iron-on edge banding).

When placed in the expected order a tiny servo unlatches the box! Nobody noticed the Easter egg tune though 😛

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Tom Granger @tomgranger.bsky.social · Aug 24

Vampire Weekend showing some C64 love on stage ❤️ @wearecommodore.bsky.social

The stage of Rock en Seine music festival in Paris, with Vampire Weekend performing in front of a giant display showing the 1993 Drive Composer C64 program.

The stage of Rock en Seine music festival in Paris, with Vampire Weekend performing in front of a giant display showing the Sidplayer software from All about the Commodore 64 volume 2.

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Tom Granger @tomgranger.bsky.social · Aug 22

Expedition 33 Acts <=> FFVII CDs

Thanks for coming to my TED talk.

Tom Granger @tomgranger.bsky.social · Aug 19

Another great vid from @modernvintagegamer.com

I'll also point out demoscene-the-art-of-coding.net initiative to get it registered as UNESCO intangible cultural heritage & it was recognized in France as a spontaneous digital creation movement this year thanks to mo5.com

youtube.com/watch?v=vIQ7...

The Incredible Demo Scene - Making Art with Code

YouTube video by Modern Vintage Gamer

youtube.com

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Tom Granger @tomgranger.bsky.social · Aug 15

Wow cool! it's been a while I'm... Astounded 🙂

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Tom Granger @tomgranger.bsky.social · Aug 12

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