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Macro Fig: Poor Man's GPS

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Fun with software, gizmos, virtual bricks, and other geeky toys. Tuesday, August 9, 2011. Program running in glorious 320x240 pixels on the Caanoo. Turned out all I needed was a few makefile tweaks to get it built for IZ2S. And it seems to run ok too. Woo-hoo! Google maps on the zipit! I was able to pan and zoom into NYC without any trouble, so I'd say it's useful already. Here it is. August 11, 2011 at 8:10 AM. August 11, 2011 at 9:15 AM. August 12, 2011 at 8:46 AM. August 12, 2011 at 10:58 AM. Ill add ...

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Macro Fig: Snack Attack

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Fun with software, gizmos, virtual bricks, and other geeky toys. Tuesday, February 16, 2016. While awaiting the imminent arrival of my new zipit gps. Toy I decided to try and attempt to resurrect an ancient openwrt-zipit. Build setup that I'd installed long ago on a usb drive. You know, just in case I needed to work some more magic on the openwrt-zipit gpsd code patches. It actually went much better than I expected, really, so I figured maybe I could fix up some needy abandoned packages. In mozzwald's op...

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Macro Fig: iz2jffs v5

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Fun with software, gizmos, virtual bricks, and other geeky toys. Saturday, March 16, 2013. Note, there's a bunch of releases here. The most recent is down at the bottom. It took a while, but I finally came to my senses and realized I was never gonna get around to everything on my todo list. So I decided to patch together whatever good stuff I could find from the last 9 months and roll a new iz2jffs release. It still looks a whole lot like like the v4 release. Here's my first try:. Hopefully I got it into...

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Macro Fig: The Lost GPS Episode

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Fun with software, gizmos, virtual bricks, and other geeky toys. Saturday, January 23, 2016. The Lost GPS Episode. This is an old tale, nearly lost to the shifting sands of time due to a peculiar practice in modern households known as "spring cleaning". You might remember in an earlier episode. Emphasis on poor. I'd already fixed up pspmaps to work with the latest google API - now with JSON - so I upgraded it further with some sorely missing features which you can read about here. So now we want to try i...

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Macro Fig: Can't Fake the Funk

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Fun with software, gizmos, virtual bricks, and other geeky toys. Sunday, November 16, 2014. Can't Fake the Funk. I'm a bit of a sucker for puzzle games like sokoban, especially when they play the oldschool chiptunes for background music. So a long time ago when my kids went through school and they had some fancy TI graphing calculators, I thought maybe I'd eventually inherit one and hack it to play some silly puzzle games like blockdude. With arm assembler code. Nice. That in turn led me to some ...This ...

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Macro Fig: End of the Road

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Fun with software, gizmos, virtual bricks, and other geeky toys. Saturday, September 24, 2016. End of the Road. I think I'm finally gonna wrap up the never ending thread here about the zipit GPS. Last time I tinkered with it. Was well over 6 months ago when I rearranged the pins in the zipit end of a Dell Axim cable. I got a brief respite from lawn duties this summer when both the lawn and. T hat's some crafty workmanship there. Yeah, I know. Who needs a GPS when you got one of these beauties. Anyhow, I ...

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Macro Fig: Space Quest

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Fun with software, gizmos, virtual bricks, and other geeky toys. Saturday, January 2, 2016. The quest for space continues. No, not the game. I tried dropbox, and it works. I fixed up the expired datafilehost links by moving them to dropbox, but the dropbox interface doesn't suit my style. Meanwhile mozzwald generously donated a directory on his server. So I recreated the goodie bag there. And started making updates for the more recent blog posts. Enjoy the additional headroom. Now, at this point I got gr...

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Macro Fig: Back on the Map

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Fun with software, gizmos, virtual bricks, and other geeky toys. Tuesday, December 30, 2014. Back on the Map. I started with dodgin' diamond. And all went well. Even the two player mode seen above appears to work, although it's difficult to get 2 different hands on the zipit keyboard at the same time. Next I decided to give the fancier looking powermanga game a try. I thought I maybe powermanga. I'd like a few more tracker options on the zipit, and my little piggy tracker. Unfortunately, about halfway th...

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Macro Fig: This One Goes to Eleven

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Fun with software, gizmos, virtual bricks, and other geeky toys. Sunday, February 9, 2014. This One Goes to Eleven. Someone thinking the contents of their zipit might be important enough for a personalized password. Tab and a program. Tab I'm not completely sold on sdlbasic for the jffs, so I added qemacs and a shell icon to the program. Section. I also added flipclock to the apps. Tab and some small console games on the play. Since I was abandoning the utilities. And here's a build that I did recently o...