Author: BogdanB

  • Arcade Cabinet (bartop, 2-player)

    Arcade Cabinet (bartop, 2-player)

    Ahhh Christmas break! What a wonderful time of the year – too bad it goes by so quickly… ๐Ÿ™‚ Anyways, to keep my brains occupied during time off from work (and, let’s be honest, have some fun geeking out!), I finally decided to build an arcade cabinet. I know, seems like everyone is building one,…

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  • Super Mario – Coin Box

    Super Mario – Coin Box

    This is one of those small, 1-2 evening projects. I was playing Super Mario Odyssey on Nintendo Switch (and highly recommend it if you haven’t played it yet), and decided to make a small prop. I actually wanted to make a small contraption with sound for some time now, and kept looking around for am…

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  • Day of Caring – 3D print for cause

    Day of Caring – 3D print for cause

    What’s Day of Caring? Well, Day and Night of Caring to be precise ๐Ÿ™‚ Andย it’s a designated day in a year, when volunteers from all over King County organize to help, fundraise and then celebrate the impact we all can make. There are plenty of opportunities to sign up for, in order to improve local…

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  • [WIP] VR FPS Shooting Game (Unity)

    [WIP] VR FPS Shooting Game (Unity)

    [WiP – Work in Progress] More details coming soon ๐Ÿ™‚   What’s this game about? Sinceย getting Vive, I’ve been thinking about writing a game in VR. While playing games is definitely fun, I enjoy creating things even more. And in this context, playing turns into aย research – seeing how various things work, what ideas I…

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  • 3D Printed Gun Stock for HTC Vive

    3D Printed Gun Stock for HTC Vive

    Some of the projects I work on are born out of curiosity. Some of them are attempts to solve a problem or improve something. This time it’s the latter ๐Ÿ™‚   While playing Onward VR, I always had a felling that something was missing, felt unnatural… Attempting to handle weapon in VR using 2 controllers…

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  • Track Day – Twilight Lapping

    Track Day – Twilight Lapping

    First track day of the season! It was a blast, as always. Great atmosphere (ProFormance is the best, always helpful and professional), good weather, knowledgeable fellow drivers. Pleasant conditions to burn through 3 tanks of gas (with an average of 4.1 MPG) ๐Ÿ™‚ And on top of it all, I moved to the intermediate group.…

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  • [WiP] Physics Processor (Unity)

    [WiP] Physics Processor (Unity)

    [WiP – Work in Progress] More details coming soon ๐Ÿ™‚   What’s this game about? Attempt to bring high-fidelity physics to mobile devices, by pre-computing the animation (physics on explosions) with a smaller precision, at increased time rate, and then re-play them in real time to ensure smooth animation without the need to calculate physics…

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  • DIY Hamster Sandbox

    DIY Hamster Sandbox

    If you’ve seen my previous post (IoT Hamster Wheel Tracker) you know that we have a lovely hamster. Hamsters like to burrow, and even though he has a lot of space and quite thick layer of bedding in his cage, we wanted for him to experience a bit more natural environment. I constructed the sandbox…

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  • Hamster Wheel – IoT Tracker w/Twitter integration

    Hamster Wheel – IoT Tracker w/Twitter integration

    Idea We got a hamster, yay! ๐Ÿ™‚ His name is Piontek (which means Friday in Polish), and the cute furry ball loves running in the night, so this idea came naturally. It may not be a first of such projects, but I wanted to make my own – build one exactly as I want it:…

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  • Exotics @ RTC – Season Opening

    Exotics @ RTC – Season Opening

    Finally, a Saturday without a rain! After having been rescheduled 3 times because of weather, this weekendย we had first event of the year: Exotics at Redmond Town Center. The first show of the season always attracts crowds – we’ve had about 500 cars and thousands of people. Everything was perfectly organized. For more information about…

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