Alexander Pruss's Blog

Some years back I was searching for a better method to play lightgun games like Duck Hunt under emulation by using a Wii remote as a light g...

A couple of years ago I helped make a variant on Wordle (same rules, copyright-free vocabulary) for the Nintendo Gameboy (you can play it on...

I haven’t found a LaTeX IDE that I am happy with (texmaker comes close, but I don’t like the fact that it doesn’t properly underline the tri...

I did something new and fun this fall: I wrote a computer science paper . It's an analysis of the conditions under which a device equipp...

Here's my TwinGalaxies record run of Eggsplode!  from last year. It's using NES emulation (fceumm, with my Power Pad support code) ...

My new work laptop did not have dedicated buttons, and by default Windows set it up so that a two-finger tap or click on the touchpad would ...

Last weekend, I spent a while measuring screen latency (for gaming purposes) on our TV, using a Raspberry PI, a photodiode and an oscillosco...

Some computer languages (notably Python) favor duck-typing : instead of relying on checking whether an object officially falls under a type ...

I'm working on submitting my climbing record to Guinness. They require video--including slow motion video!--but they have a 1gb limit on...

 For a while I've wanted to have an arcade spinner for games like Tempest and Arkanoid. I made one with an Austria Microsystems hall-eff...

Here are some non-philosophy hobby projects I’ve been doing over the break: Measuring exercise bike power output Dumping NES ROMs Adap...

When making my Guinness application record video , I wanted to include a time display in the video and Guinness also required a running coun...

I'm trying to thin the herd of old computers at home. I realized that the only real reason I had a 20-year-old Linux box at home was if ...

A static solution to Wordle would be a sequence of five guess words which would distinguish all the answer words. I've run C-based paral...

Today, I wanted to see how well the following greedy strategy works on Wordle. Given a set H of words, a word w partitions H into equival...

Update: You can play an updated version online here in the binjgb Game Boy emulator. This is the version with the frequency-based answer l...

One of my kids really liked a cool thing in a children's museum where they had a camera pointed down a hallway, with a screen, and if yo...

When I was a kid, I had a Radio Shack Microcomputer Trainer. This device was programmable in machine code, and was a 4-bit system with 112 n...

Years ago, for my older kids' coding education, I made a Minecraft mod  that lets you program in Python. Now I made a Scratch extension ...

The Wii Remote sort of works like a lightgun, but not quite. It has a camera that can track four infrared LEDs, but the LEDs it uses are no...