Dan Shimmyo
@danshimmyo.bsky.social
XR Dev / Artist obsessed with VR mechanics, Shaders, Procedural Audio, and Sound Design. Unreal/Unity, some PlayCanvas. Musician and Electronics tinkerer
A was recently laid off from a job in game development. I guess I'm sort of burnt out by tech so I've been trying to work on more tactile things. My most recent project is this metal hand that I made in welding class.
It is constructed from 3/8 inch and 1/2 inch square steel rod and welded together
It is constructed from 3/8 inch and 1/2 inch square steel rod and welded together
November 7, 2025 at 6:36 PM
A was recently laid off from a job in game development. I guess I'm sort of burnt out by tech so I've been trying to work on more tactile things. My most recent project is this metal hand that I made in welding class.
It is constructed from 3/8 inch and 1/2 inch square steel rod and welded together
It is constructed from 3/8 inch and 1/2 inch square steel rod and welded together
I was doing some light electronics research using chatGPT. We were using water pumps/pipes as a metaphor for audio amplifiers and speakers. It was going really well until ChatGPT volunteered to sketch a diagram and this is what it sent me LOLOL! Yeah, that sure clears things up 😭
August 27, 2025 at 4:56 PM
I was doing some light electronics research using chatGPT. We were using water pumps/pipes as a metaphor for audio amplifiers and speakers. It was going really well until ChatGPT volunteered to sketch a diagram and this is what it sent me LOLOL! Yeah, that sure clears things up 😭
I recently received pcbs that I designed. This is a first for me. So I was super happy when I populated the board with components and everything just worked. My steam deck rumble motor mod pcb is a success!
August 24, 2025 at 1:43 AM
I recently received pcbs that I designed. This is a first for me. So I was super happy when I populated the board with components and everything just worked. My steam deck rumble motor mod pcb is a success!
I've been designing a circuit to boost game rumble on the steam deck by driving an external motor running off an external battery all enclosed inside a custom backplate. It has been a fun challenging experience so far. Here's a rendering of a pcb and a photo of the prototype
August 14, 2025 at 4:53 PM
I've been designing a circuit to boost game rumble on the steam deck by driving an external motor running off an external battery all enclosed inside a custom backplate. It has been a fun challenging experience so far. Here's a rendering of a pcb and a photo of the prototype
my latest purchase
April 26, 2025 at 12:43 AM
my latest purchase
I was a VR developer a few years back, building a light saber game for Steam VR (PC) but I got swept up in the whole Oculus Quest mobile VR thing and it limited what I could do, so I think I'm going to get back into PC VR development for fun ASAP. Maybe I'll get a Big Screen Beyond 2
April 16, 2025 at 12:05 PM
I was a VR developer a few years back, building a light saber game for Steam VR (PC) but I got swept up in the whole Oculus Quest mobile VR thing and it limited what I could do, so I think I'm going to get back into PC VR development for fun ASAP. Maybe I'll get a Big Screen Beyond 2
My first ever CAD design was a buckle for my messenger bag and it actually works! I'm so hooked on CAD and 3D printing!
March 19, 2025 at 2:14 AM
My first ever CAD design was a buckle for my messenger bag and it actually works! I'm so hooked on CAD and 3D printing!
Another arduino project is this thermal selfie camera. I want to see if I can rebuild it with an ESP8266 instead of SAMD then maybe I can repurpose this dev board for making games
October 20, 2024 at 6:21 PM
Another arduino project is this thermal selfie camera. I want to see if I can rebuild it with an ESP8266 instead of SAMD then maybe I can repurpose this dev board for making games
I started my first arduino project 2 weeks ago. So far I've learned about animating bitmaps, playing sound through a buzzer, and adding a haptics vibrating motor. I'd like to make an infinite runner game or hook up a paddle and make breakout or pong.
October 19, 2024 at 11:47 PM
I started my first arduino project 2 weeks ago. So far I've learned about animating bitmaps, playing sound through a buzzer, and adding a haptics vibrating motor. I'd like to make an infinite runner game or hook up a paddle and make breakout or pong.
The neat thing about learning computer programming of any kind is that it's exciting when simple things work. Right now I'm drawing graphs using php. I hope to build an interactive web page with this new power
November 26, 2023 at 5:39 PM
The neat thing about learning computer programming of any kind is that it's exciting when simple things work. Right now I'm drawing graphs using php. I hope to build an interactive web page with this new power
