Game Boy Camera 3D Scanner
I’ve seen a bunch of cool projects using vintage gaming
equipment, and this feels like a fun challenge: turn a Game Boy
Camera into a (very) low-res 3D scanner.
Game Boy Cameras are surprisingly easy to find and well documented,
and some makers have even recreated them from scratch. My vision for this
project is to use an original camera and Game Boy to stream
images using a capture card. By combining this with
an OpenScan-style rig, we can create a 3D model of the object.
While I don’t expect useful scans out of this project,
it would be a fun test of how far we can push scanners with limited resolution.
Tidal Pool Game
Some of my fondest childhood memories are from the beach, where
I would catch any and every critter I could find. To this day,
I am still amazed by the ecological diversity on Cape Cod.
As an homage to my childhood, I think it would be fun
to make a Flash-style game centered around exploring tidal pools.
I envision blocky characters, cartoonishly large nets, and
funky critters all around.
Red Line Fabric
I recently coordinated a
group purchase of Camira’s Vigor, the
fabric used on the Red Line for the last 20 years. Even though
I orchestrated the purchase of 250 yards of this fabric...
I have yet to decide what to make with my cut.
Here are a few of my ideas:
- A bomber jacket with fabric highlights
-
A steel bike with red tape and an MBTA-fabric saddle
- A backpack
WasabPi
Wasabi seems like a really interesting plant, both for its culinary value
and as a challenge to grow. A few companies have succeeded in growing it
commercially, but only with state-of-the-art greenhouses.
After reading more about the plant’s growing conditions, I realized
wasabi might make an ideal houseplant. It prefers indirect light,
cool and consistent temperatures, and lots of water in well-drained soil.
I think it would be really fun to create an automated plant-care system for wasabi.
I envision this running on a Pi Zero, with a water pump, a light sensor, and a temperature sensor
that tracks and adjusts conditions to make wasabi growing much easier.
Bird-Themed Color Palettes
Have you ever noticed that birds have some of the nicest
color palettes in nature? From cedar waxwings to belted kingfishers,
these feathery friends have a lot of style.
As an amateur birder, and someone who enjoys well-thought-out design,
I think it would be fun to create palettes based on the birds of New England.
In its simplest form, this project would be manually curated.
The scientific side of me wants to make this project a bit more intense, using
scripts or machine learning to generate palettes from any given input. This would
involve aggregating images for the given species, segmenting the birds, and
intelligently selecting colors to finalize the palette.