[NBLUG/talk] [NBLUG/Announce] General Meeting TONIGHT: Pi to Game Console Tool-Assisted Speedruns

[Allan Cecil]

Public response:

I'll make sure the adapter gets returned to you; let's chat offline.  As always, I'm more than willing to use Bitcoin where needed and I've probably purchased way too many http://humblebundle.com bundles because of it. :)

I'll hijack this to take a moment to say I'm behind on finishing up the final bits of the slides for this talk but I hope to get them up by Monday.  I'll also be sending an announcement (possibly to the announce list?) right before I'll be streaming live on January 5th, 2014 at 5:30 PST.  I'll be plugging NBLUG with a streaming audience of 40,000 to 60,000 people, although most of those people will not honestly care much. :)

A.C.
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On 12/13/2013 03:59 PM, Mike Higgins wrote:
> Um, when do I get my Mac video adapter back?
> I realized I left it with you when I got home, just got around to complaining about it.
> They have another one at work, I can make do with that one for a while.
> You could just send me  few bitcoin and I'll go buy a replacement... HA!
> Seriously, if you want to hold on to it for the duration of your presentation, I could probably live without it for a while.
>
> On 12/10/13 9:36 AM, Allan Cecil wrote:
>> The general meeting is tonight at 7:30.  As an update to what I'll be talking about, I'll be demonstrating a fairly wide range of Linux development tools, including Eagle (CAD software), MPLABX (PIC Microcontroller IDE), pic32prog (Microcontroller programmer), emulators (FCEUX and lsnes), and serial interface scripting in Python on a Raspberry Pi.  I'll also be taking complete control of a Super Nintendo console using the game Super Mario World through only the controller ports.
>>
>> It should be a fun meeting and I look forward to seeing you there!
>>
>> A.C.
>> ******
>> - President, North Bay Linux User's Group
>>
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>> On 11/25/2013 12:52 PM, Allan Cecil wrote:
>>> Start: 2013-12-10 7:30 pm
>>> End: 2013-06-11 ~9:00 pm
>>> Speaker: Allan Cecil
>>> Location: O'Reilly Media
>>>
>>> Description:
>>> A Raspberry Pi, connected to a custom PCB with a PIC microcontroller, connected to... a game console's controller port?  In this presentation, Allan will talk about the Tool-Assisted Speedrun community from http://tasvideos.org, game console emulators in Linux, Raspberry Pi GPIO serial interface capabilities, PCB design, reverse-engineering, and how a TAS can be an artform.
>>> There will be plenty of technical details but the presentation should be enjoyable by all, with demonstrations of games being played perfectly using tools to overcome the limitations of human reflexes and a finale of taking complete control of an unmodified Super Nintendo using only the controller input.
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> announce mailing list
>>> announce at nblug.org
>>> http://nblug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/announce
>>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> announce mailing list
>> announce at nblug.org
>> http://nblug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/announce
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