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Week of the 21/08/2023 - #34

Contents

tech

  • Wind Turbines
  • 🕹️ Wii Trimming
  • More on dithering/halftone
  • 📄 Readme generator

Wind Turbines

Wind turbines near Cadiz, Spain 🇪🇸

  • Wind Energy Basics - “Learn more about the wind industry here, from how a wind turbine works, to the new and exciting research in the field of wind energy.”. A government site dedicated to clean energy.
  • How a Wind Turbine Works -
  • Small Wind Guidebook - The Small Wind Guidebook helps homeowners, ranchers, and small business owners decide if wind energy will work for them.
  • Wind Turbine Timelapse - timelapse video of the setup of a turbine

🕹️ Wii Trimming

The Louii

I had seen this guy some time ago and I came across a great video that reminded me this existed. Wii trimming is basically getting the motherboard of an old Wii and cutting it up leaving just the processor, the GPU and some other vital electronic circuits/chips while removing more than half. The ‘trimmed’ Wii is re-wired and fitted in a much smaller case. Here are some resources related to this.

Wii motherboard

Resources

  • The Definitive Wii Trimming Guide - The basically says it all: a great resource with all the information you might need.
  • GingerOfMods - This guy has done many Wii mods and has a lot of resources in case you want to do it yourself. Social networks: IG account / TW account / YT
  • How to Trim A Wii (Full Demo) - a 5+ hour long video showing a full trim. From the description: “This video is intended to be a resource for anyone who is looking into building portable Wiis. This is all unedited footage, and I go through pretty much everything a beginner needs to know about Wii trimming to get started with their own portable.”
  • 4LAYER TECHNOLOGIES - hardware manufacturer were you can purchase the battery / power circuits used in these mods.
  • RVLoader - “This repository contains the source code of RVLoader, a Game loader specifically designed for Wii portables. It’s supposed to completely replace the Wii’s menu with a custom interface, that has full Gamecube controller and Wiimote support.”

More on dithering/halftone

I love the dithered/halftone aesthetic. Here are some resources on how to achieve it.

  • WebGL Dithering - An exploration of image processing with GPU shaders in the browser. This particular one generates a dithered image
  • Comic book (halftone) shader - From the site: “A while ago, I made a shader for a project of mine to simulate halftone shading. This note quickly explains how I created the effect.”
  • Halftone - Wikipedia entry

📄 Readme Generator

This is neat little page I found I don’t want to loose sight of: https://readme.so : “Our simple editor allows you to quickly add and customize all the sections you need for your project’s readme”

  • Github page - Readme.so is an online editor to help developers make readmes for their project.
  • Online editor - An online Readme editor.