Thanks to the prodding of a friend, I finally tackled a project that I’ve been wanting to do for a long time, building my own arcade stick. I used a Sanwa joystick and Sanwa buttons with a Zero Delay PCB. I purchased the top panel which I used as a template and built the rest of the enclosure out of wood. The artwork is from a great game called Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime. I thought it looked at home in an old-school arcade.

Over the past year, I have spent some of my free time working on a book for my son to read. He is 8 years old, so it is a middle-grade chapter book, the rough draft being about 28,000 words at the moment. I’m having the first round of editing done, and in the meantime, I’ve been looking into self-publishing. I don’t anticipate I would sell many copies of my first book, I don’t have much time to devote to marketing my hobbies. However, I still think it would be worthwhile. So this week I’ve been thinking through some cover ideas while editing is ongoing. Here are some sketches I did yesterday testing out an idea for it.