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The Amazing, Automatic Shiny-Catching Machine!

Pokemon X and Y have made Shiny hunting easier than ever by increasing the chances of encounters and through the return of the PokeRadar and the introduction of consecutive fishing. This, however, was not enough for dekuNukem who went ahead and created their very own shiny-catching machine using a few basic electronic parts, and a pretty clever code to identify shiny Pokemon encounters by measuring the amount of time the screen goes dark after the encounter.
 
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The first version of the machine was able to identify shinies and sound an alarm, while the second automatically catches the Pokemon. dekuNukem also kindly provides a list of parts and the source code for anyone who wants to try making their own. See it in action below!
 


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