H-Shifter Electronics

Well long story short they arrived in the mail today. I actually have a proper PIC Dev board and programmer so that should speed the rate at which i can actually get started programming the interface chip for the shifter. You may be wondering why I just dont hook the shifter up to a joystick. Well most PS2 racing games only support sequential shifters. So to make the H-Shifter work the circuit has to keep track of the current gear and make any changes in the H-Shifter’s gear into key presses that the PS2 interprets as a sequential shift. Well now that Ive either confused you or bored you to death here are some pictures of the parts.

H-Shifter For Gran Turismo 4

A while back my friend had asked me to attempt to build a H-Shifter for him to use in GT4. Long story short it never got built. But recently he brought it up again and this time I am actually building it. For those of you who want to follow my progress I will periodically upload pictures and other interesting tidbits as it nears completion.

Yay Pictures!

Burning ISO Images

For those of you who have yet to figure out how to burn ISO files or want to find a great free ISO burner this guide is for you.

Removing The Recovery Partition

Anyone who has recently ordered a Thinkpad with Vista knows how much space is taken up with things that Lenovo thinks you need. Fed up with having a good 6gb of my precious hard drive space being taken up with the recovery partition I decided to get rid of it and reclaim my hard drive. Little did I know that Vista’s “Improved” boot loader would freak out and die. This guide is for those who want to get back that 6gb of space and successfully get Vista up and running again.

Hello world!

Well I just got a new T61 from Lenovo. Over all I am very satisfied and it is by far the best computer I have ever owned. Well once Vista decided to stop throwing fits anyways. Hopefully I will get around to doing some cool things that I might post here with it. So come back often to see what I have done.