Demonstration video of externally loading and playing an MP3 (for the holidays)

For my high school physics project, I was told to explain what MP3s are and how they work. I could use whatever props or supplements I wanted in my presentation. I quickly wrote a Wii Homebrew program which uses my external MP3 playing method ( http://tinyurl.com/ykamym6 ) and took a video of it and posted the video here on youtube to demonstrate during my presentation.

The program and it's source code will be released after I get my grade.


Technical details:

• Written using devkitPPC, libogc, libwiisprite, libfreetype, freetypegx, and ftimage in C++
• Song: Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow by Dean Martin
• Launched using v1 of Bannerbomb (because I think exploits are more impressive then loaders for a class project :p)

Wii Shooting Gallery Beta 1 Video

As the game is still unfinished, I realize that this is a bit of an inappropriate time to post another video of it. Thing is though, there are real-world people that are interested in viewing my work but are unable to run wii homebrew - so this video is really for them (but I certainly hope everyone else enjoys it as well!!!). As always, I apologize for the low video quality.

10 Hours of work... The Date of Birth Lab

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In my Digital Electronics Class, we were challenged to make a circuit that would reveal our date of birth as we used three inputs to count from 0 to 7 in binary (or 000 to 111). The inputs represented the binary 1s, 2s, and 4s bits. As we count up in binary, or at each step of the binary ladder, so to speak, an output displays the next character in my birth date on a common anode seven segment display.

The entire process of coming up with a boolean statement representing the circuit, simplifying the boolean statement, simulating the circuit, choosing parts (ICs), and then actually building the circuit probably took a little more than ten hours. This was a huge achievement on the low level (gate level) hardware side of electronics (I'm still better at the programming side of things though ;) ) for me.

So I took a video of it (at the top of the post) and uploaded it as my first youtube video. (Seriously, I've never put anything on youtube before) See the video description for a list of the materials used and a list of what binary number displays what.