Sections SEARCH Skip to content Skip to site index Personal Tech Subscribe Log In Log In Today’s Paper Supported by TECH TIP The classics can take you back in time — and are probably easier to recapture than you think. ByJ. D. Biersdorfer Oct. 31, 2018 Video games hit their 60th birthday in October, if you start counting (as many do) with Tennis for Two, a rudimentary Pong ancestor cobbled together by the physicist William A. Higinbotham at Long Island’s Brookhaven National Laboratory. Games have evolved a lot since then, of course, becoming far more complicated and visual, as well as multiplayer. Yet sometimes you just want to play an old favorite. Why seek out an ancient game with rudimentary graphics and only basic actions? For some, it’s pure nostalgia, like reading a beloved picture book again. For others, old games are a way to share a link to their childhood with a child of their own. Video game … [Read more...] about How to Find the Video Games of Your Youth
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Miss Those Video Games of Your Youth? Here’s How to Find Them
Sections SEARCH Skip to content Skip to site index Personal Tech Subscribe Log In Log In Today’s Paper Supported by TECH TIP The classics can take you back in time — and are probably easier to recapture than you think. ByJ. D. Biersdorfer Oct. 31, 2018 Video games hit their 60th birthday in October, if you start counting (as many do) with Tennis for Two, a rudimentary Pong ancestor cobbled together by the physicist William A. Higinbotham at Long Island’s Brookhaven National Laboratory. Games have evolved a lot since then, of course, becoming far more complicated and visual, as well as multiplayer. Yet sometimes you just want to play an old favorite. Why seek out an ancient game with rudimentary graphics and only basic actions? For some, it’s pure nostalgia, like reading a beloved picture book again. For others, old games are a way to share a link to their childhood with a child of their own. Video game … [Read more...] about Miss Those Video Games of Your Youth? Here’s How to Find Them
Best Raspberry Pi 3 Accessories in 2018
The Raspberry Pi ecosystem by its very nature is incredibly wide-reaching, and there are a lot of additional bits and pieces you can get ahold of to enhance your experience. Equally, it can be pretty daunting when you're new and just want some basic accessories to help you along. We're not going to dive too far into the maker rabbit hole, but if you're picking up a Raspberry Pi 3 for your Windows 10 IoT Core or any other project, here are some accessories you should check out. Official Raspberry Pi 3 case Just like for smartphones, there are hundreds of cases available for the Raspberry Pi 3. And also as with smartphones, they vary greatly in design and construction. For a good, all-purpose case you can't go wrong with the official Raspberry Pi offering. The lid can be removed to expose the sweet Pi within. Likewise, the side panels can also come off. It provides easy access to every part of the Raspberry Pi while looking great and being very affordable at around $7. See at Amazon … [Read more...] about Best Raspberry Pi 3 Accessories in 2018
Weekend Reading: Raspberry Pi Projects
The Raspberry Pi has been very popular among hobbyists and educators ever since its launch in 2011. It’s a credit-card-sized single-board computer with a Broadcom BCM 2835 SoC, 256MB to 512MB of RAM, USB ports, GPIO pins, Ethernet, HDMI out, camera header and an SD card slot. The most attractive aspects of the Raspberry Pi are its low cost of $35 and large user community following. Raspberry Pi: the Perfect Home Server by Brian Trapp: If you've got several different computers in need of a consistent and automated backup strategy, the RPi can do that. If you have music and video you'd like to be able to access from almost any screen in the house, the RPi can make that happen too. Maybe you have a printer or two you'd like to share with everyone easily? The Raspberry Pi can fill all those needs with a minimal investment in hardware and time. Securi-Pi: Using the Raspberry Pi as a Secure Landing Point by Bill Childers: Set up a Raspberry Pi to act as an OpenVPN endpoint, SSH … [Read more...] about Weekend Reading: Raspberry Pi Projects
How to transform your smartphone into a versatile home console
Over Christmas, I received one awesome gift from one of my siblings that completely caught me off guard later on. When I first opened it up, I realized it was a miniature sized looking Super Nintendo console, but I honestly didn't think much more about it because my first thought was that it was some cheap, knockoff console that you typically find at dollar stores and convenience shops. However, it wasn't until a couple of weeks later when I revisited the gift while organizing and clearing away Christmas decorations that I realized that it something much more – and boy am I happy that I decided to give it another look! Interestingly enough, it turns out that the Super Nintendo looking console was just a shell, just because underneath it all was a Raspberry Pi board. After getting it all connected, I was able to set up my Gmail account, and since it's running Android, I was also able to download a few of my favorite games to play on the big screen. With the advent of smart TVs, … [Read more...] about How to transform your smartphone into a versatile home console