someones made a game boy game that can control their air conditioning

[0078265317]

http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2020/04/random_someones_made_a_game_boy_game_that_can_control_their_air_conditioning

 

Cool, but necessary?

[Lord Mushroom]

It is ok if you don´t mind your air condition in black and white.

[CatPix]

On 5/2/2020 at 3:52 AM, 0078265317 said:

http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2020/04/random_someones_made_a_game_boy_game_that_can_control_their_air_conditioning

 

Cool, but necessary?

For many people, it's really just for the joy of programming something cool. also, a Game Boy is a cheap, low-power and ready-made computer with an interface.

When you see that a domotic unit cost in the hundreds, you think twice.

[0078265317]

2 hours ago, Lord Mushroom said:

It is ok if you don´t mind your air condition in black and white.

Yes but still pretty cool.

[Lord Mushroom]

43 minutes ago, 0078265317 said:

Yes but still pretty cool.

I see that I failed, but I was attempting a joke.

[0078265317]

I know.

[Lord Mushroom]

1 hour ago, 0078265317 said:

I know.

Ok, sorry.

[0078265317]

Or would a gameboy color work also?  Gbc has the ir window also if I remember.

[Punisher5.0]

You must not have read the article 

[0078265317]

My bad I thought that was a pocket.  Then its def color not b/w.

[Lord Mushroom]

22 hours ago, Punisher5.0 said:

You must not have read the article 

Whoops, I just saw the screen on the Game Boy (Color), and it looked black and white.

[0078265317]

11 hours ago, Lord Mushroom said:

Whoops, I just saw the screen on the Game Boy (Color), and it looked black and white.

Maybe the games was made in B/W.  Not all original GB games load color on the color model.  I remember a person at my local toysrus saying the same thing back then.

[Lord Mushroom]

5 hours ago, 0078265317 said:

Maybe the games was made in B/W.  Not all original GB games load color on the color model.  I remember a person at my local toysrus saying the same thing back then.

I meant the Game Boy (Color) in the ad.

[0078265317]

59 minutes ago, Lord Mushroom said:

I meant the Game Boy (Color) in the ad.

The screen is not B/W, the game is.

[Video]

There was all kinds of neat stuff made for various game boy systems, some official ones too, such as a GPS device (if I ever find one, I want it) at least two barcode readers, one was a game, but one was intended as a store computer of some kind (telecom type thing) several mp3 readers. That's just things I knew about bitd.

 

Making an ir remote should be easy for one skilled enough (that cared) to try to make.

 

It is just a handy low power integrated computer, so if you know the proper programming language, most anything could be possible.

Edited May 8, 2020 by Video

[Steven Pendleton]

21 hours ago, Video said:

There was all kinds of neat stuff made for various game boy systems, some official ones too, such as a GPS device (if I ever find one, I want it) at least two barcode readers, one was a game, but one was intended as a store computer of some kind (telecom type thing) several mp3 readers. That's just things I knew about bitd.

 

Making an ir remote should be easy for one skilled enough (that cared) to try to make.

 

It is just a handy low power integrated computer, so if you know the proper programming language, most anything could be possible.

Pedisedate is my favourite one, although the fish finder is pretty cool, and so is the one that you connect to your sewing machine. Game Boy had lots of crazy things to attach to it.

[CatPix]

It make sense. It's a Z80 CPU (with a few tweaks I think but nothing too outstanding) with a decent amount of RAM, a ready-made interface a clear readible display (compared to a led or LED alphanumerical segments), standardized interface (AKA the cart slot). And it was so mass produced that it was basically the same price than a hobby board (once you put that hobby board into a dedicaced enclosure).

 

Basically for many people in the 90's the Game Boy was their Raspberry Pi.

 

Edited May 9, 2020 by CatPix

[Video]

Yeah, I forgot about the sewing machine one. Wonder if that required a special machine, or just a sewing machine with an input. I imagine it either used ir to communicate with the machine, or a weird dedicated link dongle thing.

 

Speaking of that, there was a third party cable so you could hook to a computer and dump your pictures.

 

But yeah, turning a gbc into a universal ir remote could be quite cool. AC is simple, since most remotes (that I've seen) only have four buttons, but doing a screen interface for extra buttons, no reason you couldn't do a tv or box remote.

[0078265317]

25 minutes ago, Video said:

Speaking of that, there was a third party cable so you could hook to a computer and dump your pictures.

I still have that cable.  I dont have the camera.  But have the cable.  Its purple.  Does not plug into my gameboy original brick.  But it plugs into my gameboy pocket.

[0078265317]

https://www.ebay.com/itm/293571909691

 

Here is another one.

[0078265317]

Btw speaking of cameras never saw a clear case variant like this.  How rare is this.

 

https://www.ebay.com/itm/312603845584

 

https://www.ebay.com/itm/313057292954

Edited May 10, 2020 by 0078265317