This article is from WeChat official account:Big Data Digest (ID: BigDataDigest), author: Liu Junhuan, Yang Wei, title figure from: YouTube @ Cedishappy
A summer without watermelon is not complete.
However, if you go to the supermarket to buy fruit, and see a little brother standing in the watermelon area for half an hour without changing his posture, your expression may be the same as these passers-by, thinking that you might not have encountered it. A fool:
But you may not know that this little brother is not fighting the “Watermelon Spirit”, but indulging in Pokemon Emerald (Pocket Monster Emerald Version) can’t extricate themselves from the world.
What? This boy is playing games with watermelon? Digest bacteria first get the same expression of the aunt:
Yes, you read that right. Let’s take a close-up of this watermelon game console to see what it looks like:
It looks like this game console is silly and cute, but it is not too fragrant when you get it started. This little brother showed his friends after making it, let’s take a look at the real fragrant scene:
In the video message on YouTube, many netizens expressed their surprise. Some people replied: “I like your giggle too much.”
Some netizens said: “Don’t give Nintendo ideas anymore, it hurts my hands to play Switch!”
How to make a watermelon game machine?
To make a watermelon game machine, what you need most is a watermelon, but the watermelon should not be too big, just hold it with your hands.
In addition to the watermelon, other equipment is needed, such as a power bank, game buttons, a small 1.8-inch screen, speakers, and a mess of wires.
Do you think you just need to prepare these things, buy the watermelon, and then stuff them into the watermelon? In fact, that’s what it means.
First, run an emulator with a computer board programmable by the Raspberry Pi, and load the 2004 Pokemon Emerald’s read-only memory.
Then, connect the GPIO pins to ensure that the buttons and speakers work normally.
At the same time, the code has also been partially modified, configuration files have been obtained, audio functions have been obtained, and some libraries for screen configuration and key input have been downloaded.
Next, you can use the watermelon button to operate Pokemon Emerald.
But what about the keys?
Don’t worry! to hereThe initial preparation was completed, and then it was the manual time (happy time to eat watermelon).
But here is a friendly reminder to everyone, in order to avoid playing around and stealing a bite of watermelon in the future, it is best to dig out all the watermelon meat.
After digging the watermelon, you need to determine the position of the screen and buttons on the watermelon skin, and dig out a few holes of appropriate size.
You can choose to use the manual drill shown in the picture below, or you can simply choose an electric drill.
Okay, the whole watermelon looks like this:
Afterwards, put the game buttons and small screens into these holes.
While installing the speakers, I found out that glue is not good for watermelonYes, so he switched to toothpicks, which is really a clever ghost.
Finally, connect all the cables to the motherboard, then stuff all these equipment into the watermelon, and you’re done.
A careful friend may be worried about leakage. From the picture above, we can see that the little brother has wrapped all the parts with three layers of plastic wrap, and the watermelon has absorbed water.
Talk about it, isn’t this more fragrant than the Switch that can be seen everywhere on the street?
It took a month to make it, all to blame for the broken Raspberry Pi?
Seeing this, everyone must have a lot of questions in their minds. For example, what kind of talent would think of this idea? Why use watermelon? Isn’t it sinking? Is my Switch better?
Don’t worry, we will answer your questions slowly.
First of all, speaking of this YouTube blogger, he is called Cedrick Tan, and his real identity is Singapore Management University(Singapore Management University) double repair business A full-time student of analysis and marketing, in an interview with the media, he said that he hopes to show you more fun of technology development through the YouTube channel.
Speaking of this, I can’t help but interrupt his embarrassment to everyone.
Once, Tan took this watermelon game machine to the train station, and then was accused of carrying a watermelon bomb and was detained by the staff. He recalled: “I thought the female staff member ran down from the escalator. , Is greeting me.”
But then, the staff realized that this was actually a watermelon game machine that looked like a “watermelon bomb”, and she invited Tan to accompany her back to the control room and showed it to other colleagues. “I went to the control room later, and the SMRT employees were very excited to see this game console. I showed them the internal structure and we took pictures together.”
As for why choose watermelon? Tan said that when he first made this game console, he thought of watermelon, because the interior of the watermelon is very spacious, and the connection work is relatively easier.
Once the working principle of this game console is understood, the whole project becomes simple in an instant, but “As a student majoring in information systems, I don’t have a background in electrical engineering, and I need to learn from scratch. time”.
The whole project Tan used the Raspberry Pi programmable computing board to run the simulator of the game console, and loaded the read-only memory titled 2004 Pokemon in it (ROM) file. At the same time, the power bank, buttons, 1.8-inch screen, speakers and wires are all stuffed into this watermelon.
Tan said that this project took him about a month. However, “If you buy the first Raspberry Pi without any problems, the production process will be faster. When you know the problem and replace the broken Raspberry Pi equipment, the remaining work will be completed in less than a week. Up”.
However, we all know that watermelon is easy to rot in summer, and the lifespan of this game console “persisted for four days.” After the original watermelon game machine broke down, Tan made another one and continued to “swagger” with it everywhere.
On Reddit, Tan’s posts have also received enthusiastic praise and comments from netizens. Some people suggested that Tan try various fruits, such as avocado, melon or coconut.
Speaking of the next project, Tan said that he might make a “durian game machine”, and the name is also chosen, it is called “StinkyBoy” or “No Pain No Game”. But no matter what the name is, the operating experience of this game console is definitely more sour than watermelon.
Seeing this, Digest Bacteria wants to sigh with emotion. Although it is a bit “secondary”, isn’t it wonderful to make various interesting attempts with technology?
This article is from WeChat official account:Big Data Digest (ID: BigDataDigest), author: Liu Junhuan, Yang Wei