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  1. Audreygotchi

    Mood states and a few new animations.

    She sulks when ignored now. It's feeling more alive and expressive.

    Experiment

    Audreygotchi, a small cream device with a square screen showing a sassy pixel-art cat

  2. RetroTV

    Live SX3 streaming working.

    Live channels play smoothly on the ESP32-S3. A small, quietly huge milestone.

    Hardwarev0.4

    RetroTV, a small cream television with two black knobs, showing a pixel-art sunset on a wooden desk

  3. RetroTV

    First HLS tests.

    Segments download, decode and drop frames in roughly that order. Buffer tuning next.

    Hardware

    RetroTV, a small cream television with two black knobs, showing a pixel-art sunset on a wooden desk

  4. RetroTV

    First video output.

    A test pattern on the 3.5" panel. Ugly, but promising.

    Hardware

    RetroTV screen showing its launcher menu

  5. RetroGo

    First playable build on real hardware.

    The core loop finally feels right. Classic games just hit different on a tiny screen.

    Hardwarev0.2

    RetroGo, a cream handheld console with a D-pad and orange buttons, showing a pixel-art platformer

  6. RetroTV

    Enclosure v3 printed.

    Softer corners, deeper bezel, knobs that click. Found a shape that feels right.

    3D

    Close-up of the RetroTV volume knob and speaker grille

  7. Echo

    Faster transcription, cleaner playback.

    Recordings now become searchable notes in a few seconds.

    Softwarev0.3

    Echo, a small cream sound recorder with an orange-topped knob and a lanyard, next to a notebook

  8. Audreygotchi

    She has opinions now.

    Hunger, boredom and a very specific dislike of Mondays.

    Experiment

    Audreygotchi, a small cream device with a square screen showing a sassy pixel-art cat

  9. RetroGo

    Custom PCB arrived.

    Buttons, battery and display on one board. Only one bodge wire.

    Hardware

    RetroGo, a cream handheld console with a D-pad and orange buttons, showing a pixel-art platformer

  10. STLTIME

    Released 1.0.

    Drop an STL, get a print-time estimate within a few minutes of the slicer.

    Softwarev1.0

    A desktop 3D printer printing a small cream box, with a laptop showing a 2h 14m estimate

  11. CONTROL

    Paused, for now.

    The control room works; the story doesn't yet. Leaving it to breathe.

    Games

    A dim television control room with a wall of glowing CRT monitors above a mixing desk

  12. CONTROL

    First playable room.

    Twelve monitors, one chair, and something wrong on channel 4.

    Games

    A dim television control room with a wall of glowing CRT monitors above a mixing desk