i tell ya, nothing beats listening to the local sports talk radio in the am on it :) got an FM transmitter coming so i can airplay music / podcasts to it!
also my little shelf of my childhood (minus the cameras, picked up at estate sales)
figured that little spot on his outfit was made for a pin!!
had a two shelves sitting around and a lot of free time so i made little shelf and finally have a place for some of my older childhood tech/toys.
still remember this clock radio being in the garage since i was a kid and dad always having on the farm markets station. dad, i miss ya and can't believe the GE flip clock still works! 😎
i'm one of the cool kids now.. or am i? next up.. 800
have been searching for a proper phone mount/holder for a while now. i've had a proclip mount previously in my R58 and thought i'd give one a try vs the cheap vent mounts or the speedometer/cluster based mounts (too in my face for my liking).
holy balls.. i thought i was gonna break my headunit trying to get this thing on. def is not coming off ever. haha.
i got the qi2 magic mount / magsafe adapter and so far i am digging it. the gp3 will def test that magnet's strength, so far it seems pretty solid. like how it has built-in coord management too.
been trying to find a consistent looking a card that can do both hourly and daily weather forecasts. final solution: hourly-weather and weather-forecast with some card-mod tweaks.
pretty basic dashboard but gives me all the basic info i need at a glance. gotta love $50 android tablets!
if you need some code to modify said cards, i added my notes over here:
https://community.home-assistant.io/t/card-mod-add-css-styles-to-any-lovelace-card/120744/10038
didn't think they would fit but yea.. you can fit 1" x 2" x 8 ft boards in a GP3, just gotta find the angles! noice!
was going for a sentinel-ish style but was very limited w/the lack of LEGOs i have. thus my little baby TEMU sentinel ship 😉
even got a little back storage area for his extra jetpack and MT.
just had a nice custom stained glass piece made but didn't really have a good place to hang it since i don't have traditional windows.
thus my idea to make a plant stand and also a mount/hanger for my stained glass piece.
main goal was using things i had around and keeping it cheap and also being able to use bottom to store a few little things
we'll see how the pvc pipe works. i fear it will bend but do have some metal rod ordered to put inside if needed.
fingers crossed it works out, haven't done much wood working ever. now i need to buy a proper jig saw.
put the summer tires back on (factory set) and winters back in storage and gotta say... I like my winter tires better than the summers.
prior to getting my GP3, i had heard all the reviewers complain about the torque steer and how the steering under heavy acceleration was a bit wild. up to now, i have not experienced that at all however i realized why. i literally put my winter set of wheels on 4 days after i picked up the GP3 and in turn hadn't driven it very hard.
today i went to my tire shop and had the summer, factory wheels and tires put back on and man.. the feel is completely different than w/my other wheels and wintrak pro tires. like it feels like i have more power and grip but at the same time less. in that torque steer is very pronounced vs my winters.
i have the hancook tires on the gp3 rims and honestly am considering getting the Wintrak summer tires. any other GP3 owners have this experience?
yea, i do not like how it drives w/the factory wheels at all. dang it! now i gotta burn through these tires to justify a new set by next summer. 😎
figured what the heck, give it a try and yup. loads up fine and grass textures even show!
imported my rp6 save but so far seems to be working decently.
using ryujinx-canary v1.3.269
firmware 21.2.0 and game v1.0.0 (not using the update)
😎
found my sony clie nx-70v a few weeks in my storage area and really wanted to get it back up and going.
a new battery, ac adapter, a few ms cards, a cf wifi card later... its alive and online!! well.. kind of.. surprisingly enough, google maps works!! no gps but maps load over the cf wifi card!! so cool
had to break out my old 802.11b ap/router for it.
even re-encoded the movie Hackers to play on it cuz why not! got music playing and even loaded a few photos to setup the photo stand app. added bejeweled and simcity.
sure wish i could get opera mini working. so if anyone out there has gotten ibm jvm and opera mini v4.2.x working on a sony clie nx-70v; hit me up!! i've tried every jvm on the web and no luck.
so yea.. def a fun device but in all reality, it wasn't that great for what you paid for. its slow.. keyboard is barely usable.. touch input via stylus not too accurate... but i still love it!!
the design and overall tactile feel of the device is classic sony design; excellent. just the cpu power in those days wasn't quite there yet (early days).
def gonna rock this out in public later this week for fun.
visited my buddy and his boys and ended up a their local BRICKS & Minifigs and tried to make me a NMS interloper minifig. his youngest son even found a cape and looks pretty good.
ok, i think my nms collection is complete.. for now..
also another shoutout to my buddy for his amazing work on The Atlas of Glass stained glass piece! can't believe how good it turned out.
interloper out. kzzt..
i named the piece "The Atlas of Glass" and as promised, here is are some more photos of the stained glass atlas piece i had commissioned!! OMG!! it looks so good. 3D type of design w/the red orb behind the others.
still need to get a pic w/the sun hitting it (looks so good!!!)
best part? its a one off piece, only one he's gonna make too!!
quick longer demo of the game using Eden Nightly (Apr 28, 2026 build). first build that i've been able to get the game running. still have the black / blank grass issues but otherwise runs pretty good!
Retroid Pocket 6 (12GB)
the Clie NX-70V is alive!! new battery, compactflash wifi card and 128mb ms card (2gb on the way) installed and working. def took me a little big to setup the wlan but once i got the right drivers prc, good to go!
also had to get my old school 802.11b router up and going (haven't gotten wireless hotsync working yet but very close, prob some stupid routes i have to make on router).
now to find browser that actually can open reddit in 2026, google loaded though (search page that is)
nearly done and WOW!!! loving it. man, what a great NMS week for me, got my jacket and this update on the stained glass Atlas.
looks so good!! i think my collection may be complete for now once i get this.
I think i've hit max level of NMS fanboyism! Just got my InsertCoin The Traveler jacket and yup, def was worth the money and wait!!
Some pics of the inside, back and front. Also had to flaunt my Atlas Level 4 pass.