BMO

A little buddy who wants to play video games.

See http://adventuretime.wikia.com/wiki/BMO

This is another "Near Zero Cost" project so I'm just using what comes to hand or what I already have lying around.

Work In Progress Gallery

<<TODO pull in twitpic images, ow.ly images etc.>>

Scale and geometry

The geometry is very important! This has to be a "Real-Life" character.

Scale to fit small CCTV PAL monitor for face

Do many prototypes: -

• BMO dimensions in paper
• BMO body in card
• BMO body in construction plastic
• BMO laser cut acrylic?

Revisions to date

BMO Mark One: a simple foam space model to get screen location and general geometry decided.

BMO Mark Two: a heat-formed plastic body with permanent screen mounting.

Accuracy

What colour is BMO?

• google images search for BMO: http://www.google.co.uk/search?safe=active&q=bmo&tbm=isch
• essentially teal == #008080
• GIMP eyedropper tool sample colours
• is there a matching laser acrylic colour?
  • http://www.plasticstockist.com/Duo-Engraving-Perspex/Silver-Duo-Perspex-Engraving-Acrylic-Sheet.aspx

Raspberry Pi

• Rather annoyingly I burnt out a Pi when connecting the wrong power supply - I connected the monitor's 12v supply instead of the hub's 5v supply. Same connectors! NEVER DO THIS AGAIN!
• Now using my "Vanity Pi" (the one in the neon green PiBow case)

Powered USB Hub

• to support the current pulled by the various USB peripherals, especially the WiFi

USB WiFi adapter

• EDUP model from DealExtreme
• Tiny!
• works well right now but only one SSID is currently set up - OK at HackSpace as there are plenty of wired LAN points

Speaker holes

7x pillar drill 6mm - backed with black cloth

Arms and Legs

• Electrical solid 3-core cable
• poseable
• doubled up for legs (but not feet)
• 3 cores become fingers of hand
• tee shirt material socks

Floppy/Cart slot

• Dimensions not fully decided
• GameBoy cart slot size?
• make functional?

VHS tape slot

• sprung flap
• access to back panel opening mech
• ["it goes in my butt"]

Front USB ports

• keyboard
• mouse
• game controllers
• forwarded to internal USB hub