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- sirbeta, on 10/28/2008, -0/+54The circuitry is all exposed! Won't someone PLEASE think of the children?!
- Surferess, on 10/28/2008, -8/+44"Possibly NSFW" - but not in the way you are thinking! lol
- dha07030, on 10/28/2008, -1/+30That screen is huge!
- adt41287, on 10/28/2008, -4/+31this has awesome written all over it
- mazza558, on 10/28/2008, -5/+31How about the Pandora? It'll be able to do a whole lot more, and is Open Source too... http://www.openpandora.org/
- inactive, on 10/28/2008, -1/+24Pretty cool, but man, he really needs to tighten up those graphics.
- 3MM3, on 10/28/2008, -1/+22The point is this guy built the thing himself, not that he made an open source gameboy.
- melonhedd, on 10/28/2008, -4/+22In what sense is this a Game Boy? It doesn't even play Game Boy games.
- Kenelm, on 10/28/2008, -2/+19Actually, it doesn't even run Game Boy games.
- jnuffnuffnomnom, on 10/28/2008, -3/+18Will it help me find my dad?
- elishagrey, on 10/28/2008, -2/+17So wait..does it play Gameboy games?
- twodollars, on 10/28/2008, -1/+13Oh no! Naked hardware! And i'm at work!
- kangy3213, on 10/28/2008, -3/+15could someone enlighten me on how this is nfsw
- etement, on 10/28/2008, -1/+12Spam bots?
- jtbell04, on 10/28/2008, -0/+10Yeah, level three is looking a little shabby.
- cutchyacokov, on 10/28/2008, -1/+11spam
- menelquar, on 10/28/2008, -2/+12Man check out those circuits. O.O
- JakeyG14, on 10/28/2008, -0/+10You guys go to Westwood College too?!
- inactive, on 10/28/2008, -2/+11wtf is that?
- twiztidsinz, on 10/28/2008, -6/+15I'd say its a LAMEboy... but I dont want to insult the emulator.
- Fixion, on 10/29/2008, -0/+7No, the article is mislabeled. The Arduino, which uses an Atmel ATmega168 microcontroller, is (and will always be) incapable of emulating the gameboy hardware (Z80).
- freezerburn666, on 10/28/2008, -0/+7i think its a cool concept, think about it, selling a cheap kit, letting people build their game thingy, using open source software and games... i think with some refinement there's potential here.
- rh387, on 10/28/2008, -0/+6http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Main_Page
- yoshifan, on 10/28/2008, -1/+6The Pandora is not open source in terms of hardware, only software.
- Aufverdsing, on 10/28/2008, -3/+7I remember game boys being able to do a lot more than move a colored dot around.
- mfrancis107, on 10/28/2008, -2/+6Open source hardware can exist, and we will probably see more attempts to make such things.
This "gameboy" here is nowhere close to an open source project. It is just some guy's invention. But if it was actually introduced as an open source project it is plausible.
How would open source hardware work? Well, the design of the hardware is what is open source. Everyone can participate in designing the hardware, offering ways to improve it. (Sharing CAD files) Then when it comes time for production, the only cost would be the actual cost of production. You wouldn't have to worry about paying people for patents, or paying a design team. So instead of a $200 dollar piece of hardware it could be $80.
Check out the connexions project, an open source text book project. Has the same principle. - gospe1337, on 10/28/2008, -3/+6Can somebody explain 'open source' hardware? I thought the reason open source code works is because people can easily distribute it for almost free, work on it across miels of space, and have minimal manufacturing overhead.
- inactive, on 10/29/2008, -0/+3I wish I was that smart.
- AgahniMalebogia, on 10/28/2008, -0/+3Gameboys wished they colored dots. All they had was greenish brown dots.
- thecodeman, on 10/28/2008, -0/+3They have all been drinking that obama Kool-Aid ..
and lost their Intelligence .
- Sc0rian, on 10/28/2008, -1/+4thats cool. clever chap
- butterz730, on 11/01/2008, -0/+3Why would she be talking about a screen?
- specter19, on 10/28/2008, -0/+2Why you gotta come in here and stomp all over this dudes achievements. not only that, this prob cost like 30 times less than pandora which isn't even available yet.
- j1ggy, on 10/28/2008, -2/+4Anyone else notice that the first picture is a mirrored image? I kept thinking "why the heck is the directional pad on the wrong side" until I scrolled down a bit. I'm sure lefties would appreciate a left-handed controller.
- inactive, on 10/28/2008, -1/+3Digg turned into this: http://diggtroll.wordpress.com/
- graahBrains, on 10/29/2008, -0/+2i thought it played old gameboy games :( still cool though.
- Renegade89, on 10/29/2008, -1/+3no
- twigboy, on 10/28/2008, -0/+2thats the whole damn reason i clicked on it
- bipolarruledout, on 10/28/2008, -1/+3Just because you can doesn't mean you should.
- elishagrey, on 10/28/2008, -0/+2Actually he says in the video you can change where the buttons and d-pad are located.
- inactive, on 10/28/2008, -0/+2Very sexy.
- bedake, on 10/28/2008, -2/+4You know how I know digg is full of fail lately? Once a month a tech submission comes through awesome or not and all the comments suck. What happened to all the nerds that made this site what it was?
- aecorn, on 10/28/2008, -0/+2Oh, I would have loved to have one of these when I was a younger, would probably have ended up as a programmer haha...
Would be ten times cooler with a nicer screen though... - noisymime, on 10/28/2008, -0/+1Remember the old adage of 'free as in speech, not as in beer'. Open source is more about freedom than $0 software. Its perfectly legal to take someones open source code and sell it without giving a cent back to the original writer, provided you still make the source available and acknowledge copyrights.
Most hardware is far from open. Even if you can get all the PCB/chip designs, you're generally still missing things like the firmware source to make it all work. Open hardware is about giving away everything you need to reproduce a certain product, except the physical parts needed to do it. - noisymime, on 10/28/2008, -0/+1Sorry, tell me again why this isn't open source hardware?
The Arduino is definitely open, the display board is open. The only thing that might not be open is the controller board, only because, as he said in the video, he's only JUST finished it. If you were that desperate, I'm sure he'd give you all the required info to make your own. - brainflakes, on 10/28/2008, -1/+2Arduinos are very cool (my friend is using some lilypads to create some gloves to control PureData with gestures) but they're not really powerful enough to run games off are they?
- KaiUno, on 10/28/2008, -0/+1Probably the same potential as all those $1.99 tetris clones.
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