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.>>

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  All acrylic buttons (hand carved!)

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
  • http://www.geeked.info/raspberry-pi-add-multiple-wifi-access-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?
  • The original Game Boy and the Game Boy Pocket share the same cartridge type, measuring about 55mm wide by 60mm high and 7mm thick. The casing is opaque plastic, usually grey or yellow. These cartridges can be played in all consoles except the Game Boy Micro.
• make functional?

VHS tape slot

• sprung flap just like a real front-loading VHS
• access to back panel opening mech or actual port for something?
• "it goes in my butt"

Front USB ports

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