Gregory Wild-Smith

@gws
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‘60’s VW Bus owner, Ghostbuster, Clio Award winner. Formerly Zynga, Netflix, LinkedIn, & Coinbase.
A-CSM, A-CSD, & CAL1 certified Staff Software Engineer.
I make things.
LocationOakland, California
Gregory Wild-SmithApr 6, 2023

The fun of designing your own arcade control panel… but fitting it inside the ~23.5” width of a standard arcade machine.

Most MAME machines people build seem to cheat by making acres of space and going 4+ players. In reality most cabinets used to be 1-2 player and had to sit side by side. So if you want that style… space is very constrained.

I’m going with a customized variation of the classic Dynamo HS1/HS2/HS5

Gregory Wild-SmithJan 7, 2023
The current state of the Republican Party, summarized:
Gregory Wild-SmithNov 24, 2022
Meet the greatest pocket tool Leatherman ever made… and then discontinued: The Squirt ES4 (E for Electrical, S for Scissors).
While the P series is still made, the E series was deleted a number of years ago. I will never understand why.
With its built in needle nose pliers & multiple gauge wire-strippers it is absolutely my most used regular tool.
I had an Adafruit branded one confiscated by the TSA just after they stopped production. I was distraught.
Thankfully they can still be found on eBay.
Gregory Wild-SmithNov 22, 2022
One of the… interesting things about my #ADHD brain is that I seem to create projects faster than I can—or can focus on—finish them.
Recently I’ve decided to tackle my backlog. One such project takes us aaaall the way back to July 1987, in the pages of Atari User magazine in the UK.
They showed you how to build a speech synthesizer! I *desperately* wanted to build it for out Atari 800XL but had no idea, as a 7yr old, where to start.
I am no longer 7.