BMO
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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?
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