Hardware, Linux

WD My Cloud Gen 1 – Install new Disk

Hi Guys! There is a great repository with a bunch of information in https://fox-exe.ru/WDMyCloud/. There you can find details, how-to’s, firmwares, photos of the internal boards, all you need to recover your WD My Cloud, or hack it! The detailed instructions in English for replacing the disk on Gen 1 can be found here. First, […]

Hardware, Linux

WD My Cloud (home) new life

Hello Guys! So I’ve an old WD My Cloud (home version), with only one disk (2TB capacity), that was completely forgotten due to my two Synology NAS. It wasn’t booting anymore, so I quickly found away of removing the disk googling for it, I found a good video here. I could recover the disk data

Arcade, Linux, Raspberry Pi

Mission Accomplished!

Well, I actually did it! The Arcade Project was finished before Christmas and the child liked it a lot (it has the games she likes playing in “Perdigao’s Multiple Arcade“: Pac-Mania, Out-Run, and all the others). In terms of system configuration, the only thing I added was background music to AdvMENU, you can do this by

Wiring Encoder
Arcade, Hardware, Linux, Raspberry Pi

Setting up Arcade Controls in AdvMAME and AdvMENU

Now I connected the Keyboard encoder to the RaspPI. You can find a review of this encoder on Youtube. I’m using 10 buttons and 1 joystick. On the top of the Arcade Controller, I’ll have the joystick on the left side and 6 buttons one the right side, using the Japanese Layout from Slagcoin’s joystick templates. I’ll have

Arcade, Hardware, Linux, Raspberry Pi

Configuring Raspberry Pi, booting AdvMAME and AdvMENU

Well, first idea, add a custom splash screen. I followed the instructions at https://yingtongli.me/blog/2016/12/21/splash.html The splash screen appears correctly, works perfectly! Then, I ran AdvanceMenu for the first time to create the default configuration: advmenu Got all the snapshots of the games from http://www.progettosnaps.net/snapshots/ and uploaded them to the PI at /home/pi/.advance/snap/ After that, I wanted to remove

Arcade, Hardware, Linux, Raspberry Pi

PI OS and MAME – Take 2

Well, the Moebius project seems stoped since a year ago, version 3.0.0.is still in beta state, no OS updates, and the latest advanceMame doesn’t install correctly because of missing libraries… I got myself a microSD Card with 64GB, and I’m going with the latest raspbian stretch lite. To delete Moebius, I went (in Windows 10) to

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