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2010/01/17

ArduinoBoy (WRT54G Edition)

Today I finished my very first Arduino project :-).

It's an ArduinoBoy. Basically it's a device that lets me sync my GameBoy to a sequencer (I'm using Renoise using MIDI. On the GameBoy itself runs Nanoloop1). This was my first ever electronics project and it went really well. I only soldered one wrong connection which I luckily found after some debugging (de-soldering a IC sucks though :-/).

After I finished the breadboard version of the ArduinoBoy I began to think about a fitting enclosure. It turned out that finding something appropriate was the most difficult part of all. I finally decided to have a look into the WRT54G router I use solely for distributing wireless OSC messages via either my Nintendo DS and DSMI or TouchOSC on my iPhone. And to my surprise it had exactly that much space left which I would need for putting an extra Arduino inside :-D.

Getting all that stuff in there was a delicate thing to do though. I have to remember to open the thing with care should I ever have to. Unfortunately I'm not that good at drilling holes, that's why the holes for the LEDs look a bit ugly. However, I'm happy with the final result, especially because it took only one weekend to finish which makes me less worried regarding my plans to build an Arduinome (I have all parts except the PCB :-/).

Okay, now I have to make some nice GameBoy 8bit music :-).

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1) a Tracker for the GameBoy

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