Week 45, 2024

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This video is how I gutted my already modified old Thrustmaster F-16 FLCS joystick of my ViperPit and made it work again with the help of an Arduino Pro Micro. This flight stick (and also the other peripherals) do belong in a museum but where’s the fun in that? I modified it and now it’s a generic USB joystick that works on any recent system. I focus mostly on the 5×5 button matrix since this is the hardest part to understand. In the end are a few minutes of playing X4 Foundations with it to give it a good test run. Now it just needs some oil for the creaking 😅

https://makertube.net/w/qrqqZLr2QvJFjCwyNzzAmp / https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYiPFDpHwmc

I totally love this. So in Flight Of Nova some players noticed that some stars in the distance looked not like stars and started venturing out and after a 10h realtime flight they managed to crash on another planetary 😄
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fih4peTebyk

This is the next attempt holding enough reaction mass back to survive re-entry and do a proper landing too.

I love this level of nerdism. And I so hope they get to name that bugger 😄

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Today the little one asked about video editing again. She really wants to make videos. This isn’t the first time as well and I do remember her stop motion mini videos years ago. The new smart phone also has various recording and post production possibilities – albeit limited – that she is playing around with a lot lately using her own drawings.

This time she showed up with a game recording where she played some mobile game together with a school friend. They used Signal and headphones for voice and played together via internet while her phone recorded all of this.

So we talked a lot about a typical video editing process, resolutions, screen ratios, audio tracks and effects and eventually we sat down at the PC and edited a short clip in to demonstrate all of this. In the end she suffered from a slight “buffer overflow” so we had to stop but not before rendering out a tiny video that she is showing around to her friends now.

I wonder what will come of this.