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Maximo
@maxiborga.bsky.social
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1/2 of @Videogamo, makers of #NAVEArcade, the traveling arcade cabinet, and #DOBOTONE, our Party Game Console.

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some gf180 vs sky130 dies photos
The rest is here: mbalestrini.github.io/chip_images/...

#asic #macro #photography
October 16, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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and here are some photos
I've uploaded more here: mbalestrini.github.io/chip_images/...

#asic #photography
macro photo of a bare die macro photo of a bare die macro photo of a bare die macro photo of a bare die
October 14, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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a little more of the current setup I'm using to take the pictures of the bare dies
October 14, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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Ready to take some chip photos
Photo a Sony A7CIi with a Minolta MD lens, adapter and 5 30cm extension tubes You can see some tape helping hold one of the extension tubes connection Photo a Sony A7CIi with a Minolta MD lens, adapter and 5 30cm extension tubes You can see some tape helping hold one of the extension tubes connection
October 11, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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we are making progress

#gamedev #arcade #videogamo
Detail of Gol-E-Gol's inside base, showing some components like PC, Power suppy, fan, controller pcb, and the panel mount connections to the bottom service panel You can see wires going from different places Detail of Gol-E-Gol's inside base, showing some components like PC, Power suppy, fan, controller pcb, and the panel mount connections to the bottom service panel You can see wires going from different places
October 2, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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organizing #GolEGol base so we can do some basic cable management later
photo of Gol-E-Gol’s inside without the rods and the TV, showing the components laying on the base, with many cables going to different places
September 30, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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some manual activation testing
August 19, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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Last week I've made a new prototype board for driving some new feedback solenoids on #GolEGol

I've made a thread on mastodon with more pictures and videos:
chaos.social/@maxiborga/1...
August 19, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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#GolEGol
May 13, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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February 15, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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February 13, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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First test of using #FreeCAD for CAM work.
In the path of slowly replacing fusion360
Screenshot of FreeCAD 1.0 app, showing the CAM workbench and some operations paths photo of the result of the CNC job that the freecad screenshot shows. It's a piece cut in black melamine mdf another view of the result of the CNC job. In this case you can see the whole where two pieces were cut and a third piece still attached to the board by some tags
February 12, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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I made this framed print as an award in NAVE Arcade's 12th World Tournament
In the illutration you can see all 21541 registered scores, with each line representing a register and the line's length representing the score. Each name has a palette colour asigned randomly

#gamedev #arcade #navearcade
Photo of the framed print with the illustration of all the scores. The illustration is a colorful representation of all the NAVE Arcade scores, with lots of horizontal lines really close to each other, in a six color palette Detail photo of a corner of the framed print. You can see the text "NAVE ARCADE. FECHA: 26-NOV-2024. SCORES: 21541" Close-up of the illustration. You can see the individual lines representing the scores and the texture of the paper Another close-up of the illustration, but not from the final print but a test. You can see the individual lines of the scores and part of the text: "NAVE ARCADE SCORES (21541)
December 12, 2024 at 9:10 PM
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Yo tengo esta versión. Me la regaló mí viejo muchos años después de haber jugado.
Foto de la caja del juego The Secret of Monkey Island. Edición de Maxi Juegos Erbe de Altaya Se ve el contenido de la caja: los 4 discos 3.5, una revista con información sobre el juego y el disco de cartón anti piratería clásico del Monkey Island
November 28, 2024 at 10:38 PM
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#DOBOTONE microswitch fail.
It was easy to repair but just in case we replaced it for a new one
November 25, 2024 at 6:34 PM
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I was able to modify the ice40-playground code to work with this panel.
The repo includes a python app to stream video to the panel really easily.
Here I used that together with gphoto2 and ffmpeg to send the DSLR live preview to the screen
November 23, 2024 at 5:06 AM
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Last year I played a little bit with an RGB led panel and an IceBreaker FPGA.

Here I was testing it with some of my digital sketches
November 23, 2024 at 5:01 AM
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a few more macros of the mpw-6 chips
November 22, 2024 at 10:40 PM
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a test of a spice simulation incorporated in blender
November 20, 2024 at 11:35 PM
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I also like to do renders of the chips and cells
November 20, 2024 at 11:32 PM
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Video of @mattvenn.net MPW1 chip
November 20, 2024 at 11:27 PM
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These are from @mattvenn.net MPW1 chip and his resin cube souvenir
November 20, 2024 at 10:54 PM
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November 20, 2024 at 10:46 PM
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I played a little with the gds masks of the designs and the cnc
November 20, 2024 at 10:46 PM
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These are from MPW6
I enjoy taking macro photos of bare dies
November 20, 2024 at 10:38 PM