DataBoy

[nidlaX]

DataBoy is an RS-232 data scope that runs on a Game Boy.

...converting the Game Boy into a useful engineering/troubleshooting tool.

Wat...

[McBryce]

Hi,
        This reminds me of the half built GBDSO ( http://www.radanpro.com/Radan2400/TestShematics/GameBoyScope.pdf ) I bought on ebay back in the day. It never worked and I never bothered finding out why. At the time I thought it would be "fun to have", but it was really just a toy and other projects stopped me from ever doing anything more with it.

McBryce.

[macboy]

These types of projects were not so uncommon 10 or so years ago when those consoles were cheap and plentiful. Back then you couldn't go on ebay and buy a color touchscreen TFT LCD for $5 plus an arduino knockoff to control it for another $5, and just download software software libraries and bang out some working code in a morning. Using a 16x2 character LCD was still fashionable, but you could get a monochrome 128x64 character LCD with piss poor contrast for $40 or so if you wanted. And of course you had to figure out the datasheet and write the software libraries yourself because that was new stuff; you couldn't just borrow code from other people's hobby projects because there were none (at least none that used the same LCD controller as your module had).

[nidlaX]

These types of projects were not so uncommon 10 or so years ago when those consoles were cheap and plentiful. Back then you couldn't go on ebay and buy a color touchscreen TFT LCD for $5 plus an arduino knockoff to control it for another $5, and just download software software libraries and bang out some working code in a morning. Using a 16x2 character LCD was still fashionable, but you could get a monochrome 128x64 character LCD with piss poor contrast for $40 or so if you wanted. And of course you had to figure out the datasheet and write the software libraries yourself because that was new stuff; you couldn't just borrow code from other people's hobby projects because there were none (at least none that used the same LCD controller as your module had).

Yeah sure, but the fact that they're still trying to sell this for $100 on eBay when the HanTeks of the world are commonplace...

[McBryce]

If anyone wants to try and resurrect my GBDSO, they are welcome to it for a lot less than $100

McBryce.

Gesendet von meinem Motorola DynaTEC 8000X mit Tapatalk 2.

[miguelvp]

Hi,
        This reminds me of the half built GBDSO ( http://www.radanpro.com/Radan2400/TestShematics/GameBoyScope.pdf ) I bought on ebay back in the day. It never worked and I never bothered finding out why. At the time I thought it would be "fun to have", but it was really just a toy and other projects stopped me from ever doing anything more with it.

McBryce.

Link is dead, but it's available on the wayback machine:

https://web.archive.org/web/20140807190854/http://radanpro.com/Radan2400/TestShematics/GameBoyScope.pdf