EMS is Back ! (2022/06/10)

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Something new today ?!


The last column ?! Can't it be ?!



YEAH ! EMS to France is finally available back !!!


Sadly there are still many European countries still not reachable by EMS, but let's hope that situation will improve soon
Regarding delivery to France, a special parcel that was waiting for several months can finally be sent

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PPcenter donation system updated !

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More than 11 years ago (from winter 2005 ?), I had a "donate" page stating something like "send your money and I will make cool things for Saturn on my free time".

During there 11 years, I received 15 US dollars.

And within theses 15 US dollars, I declined 10 because they were generously donated in exchange of "future help" in making a game for Saturn.

So that's something like 45 cents per year, which is also around 3.8 cents per month. I didn't checked in details, but that should be something like one Skittles per week. Not one bag of Skittles, but one bloody skittles. Per. Week

Fortunately, this era now ends, because I officially announce that I changed my donation system from "send your money and I will make cool things for Saturn on my free time" to "Send everything except money, and I will make cool things for Saturn on my free time. And even if you don't donate anything, I will make cool things for Saturn on my free time anyway."
More details can be found on my donate page

And to make it clear : the motivation to change donation system is not related to money : I just spoke about money received so far in order to write something funny in my blog

I make Saturn things for fun, and not for money. As some examples, I started to design rev2f PCB in hospital room from one week after undergoing cancer surgery, and Virtual Memory Cartridge add-on for Pseudo Saturn Kai was developed and tested during my post surgery chemotherapy. Theses helped a lot to think about something else than medical things during theses times.
I don't say that Kicad and gcc are a cure for cancer (), but theses were very good help however.


And to make it clearer : yes, I sell Saturn cartridges, but no I don't make a living from selling theses. I'm not even sure I produce enough carts in order to pay every-day's breakfast from cartridges sales benefits

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New homebrew cartridges : finished design stage !

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Classified in : Saturn Tags : Kicad, PCB, USB dev cart
Since being at hospital gives me a lot of free time, I spend time having fun with Kicad software
data/images/20140801_pcb1.tb.png and data/images/20140801_pcb2.tb.png
The first one is "only" a cleaned-up, partially re-routed version of "Rev 1c (data/images/20140801_rev1c.tb.jpg)" cartridge I used to sold on this homepage last year.
Can you spot major and minor differences between Rev 1c and new version ?

When I will be out of the hospital, I plan provide them for sale as USB dev cart .


The second one is for private use (not for sale), and its purpose is private too. That's why I blurred its picture

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