Post by thread:[ee]: cheap gameboy cameras

Hello All, over the weekend i discovered gameboy cameras on sale at Best Buy for $9.99. I dont know whether this is at all stores, or just the one down the hill from me. for information, the following excerpt from the archives has some info and a link or two. alice ;----------------------------------------- Maybe reply: Dave Ward: "Gameboy camera to P(i)C interface???" Reply: Alice Campbell: "Re: Gameboy camera to P(i)C interface???" --------------- cc:Mail Forwarded --------------- From: Russell McMahon <spam_OUTapptechTakeThisOuTCLEAR.NET.NZ> AT ~INTERNET Date: 12/07/99 09:04 AM To: .....PICLISTKILLspam@spam@MITVMA.MIT.EDU AT ~INTERNET Cc: Subject: Gameboy camera to P(i)C interface??? Russell, Try searching the Web for Gameboy Hacking. There are several pages dedicated to writing games for the GB and GB Colour. I have seen information about the camera, including internal pictures. I believe that the 'camera' chiip used is a Mitsubishi Artifical retina device 128 x 128 pixels. The device does several forms of image processing 'on-chip' hence the name artificial retina. Details can be found on Mitsubishi's site. www.mitsubishichips.com/products/assps/a_retina/index.h tm Check out the Brookes Sensor page where this link came from, http://www.pacific.net/~brooke/Sensors.html Hope this gives you some pointers. Dave. ______________________________ Forward Header _____________________________ _____ Subject: Gameboy camera to P(i)C interface??? Author: Russell McMahon <apptechKILLspamCLEAR.NET.NZ> at ~INTERNET Date: 07/12/1999 09:04 The Gameboy video cameras are being specialed here for $NZ30 (about $US15) These are a moderately low resolution CMOS b&W video unit with extra hardware to work in the gameboy. Details for PC interfacing these to a PC using a gameboy are available on the net. It should be possible to talk to these directly but I can't find technical details from anyone who has done it. Is anyone aware of an interface directly to these cameras - using a PIC or otherwise. Russell McMahon _____________________________ -- http://www.piclist.com#nomail Going offline? Don't AutoReply us! email .....listservKILLspam.....mitvma.mit.edu with SET PICList DIGEST in the body

.... >It should be possible to talk to these directly but I can't >find technical>details from anyone who has done it. >Is anyone aware of an interface directly to these cameras - >using a PIC or>otherwise. > Following site has tech details about the artificial retina chip - ARC: http://www.lh.co.nz/hardware/ar/techinfo.htm [NZ, Christchurch - you know these guys, Jinxman?? Just done the street] 128x128 pixels, 256 grey levels, produces up to 30 frames/sec using a 500 khz clock. Well within the frequency range of a PIC, but you need some place to store 128x128=16,384 bytes of data/frame. Maybe one of the 17Cxxx PICs with direct memory addressing for frame store. The ARC has some interesting real-time capability - negative images, edge enhancement, gain control, variable exposure times, 2-D edge extraction. Maybe the new scenix chip could handle secondary processing for a minibot or other app. -- http://www.piclist.com#nomail Going offline? Don't AutoReply us! email EraseMElistservspam_OUTTakeThisOuTmitvma.mit.edu with SET PICList DIGEST in the body

> http://www.lh.co.nz/hardware/ar/techinfo.htm > > [NZ, Christchurch - you know these guys, Jinxman?? Of course. Everyone in NZ knows everyone else. The 30,000,000 sheep are the headache. Nothing worse than forgetting your date's name. E aroha io There's more info on the GB camera here, a mirror of another Mitsubishi site I've seen http://www.lh.co.nz/hardware/ I picked up two of those cameras earlier in the year when they were on special and got as far as opening one up, "hmmm, t'riffic" and putting it back together. I could use a diversion like a camera i/f about now -- http://www.piclist.com#nomail Going offline? Don't AutoReply us! email listservspam_OUTmitvma.mit.edu with SET PICList DIGEST in the body

At 04:30 PM 12/12/00 +1300, you wrote: >> http://www.lh.co.nz/hardware/ar/techinfo.htm >> >> [NZ, Christchurch - you know these guys, Jinxman?? > >Of course. Everyone in NZ knows everyone else. The 30,000,000 >sheep are the headache. Nothing worse than forgetting your date's >name. E aroha io > Ya know, Jinx, you don't have to give away all your secrets. ============= >There's more info on the GB camera here, a mirror of another >Mitsubishi site I've seen > >http://www.lh.co.nz/hardware/ Isn't this the same site I gave above?? [now I am totally confused]. -- http://www.piclist.com hint: To leave the PICList KILLspampiclist-unsubscribe-requestKILLspammitvma.mit.edu

>You know, for about $15 http://www.computergeeks.com will sell you a parallel >port COLOR camera for which you can probably already find a linux driver. I sure hope the damn driver is easier to find on that site than the damn camera. actually, it looks like the cameras are gone, and the only thing left at that price is video->parallel converters. Sorry :-( BillW -- http://www.piclist.com hint: To leave the PICList spamBeGonepiclist-unsubscribe-requestspamBeGonemitvma.mit.edu

Colour gameboys are on sale at present in NZ - about $NZ110 AFAIR = $US45 or so. What do they cost elsewhere? Russell McMahon _____________________________ What can one man* do? Donate food daily free !!! - http://www.thehungersite.com/ Donate Vitamin A! http://www.thechildsurvivalsite.com/ http://www.rawa.com - one perspective on Afghanistan http://www.changingourworld.com http://www.easttimor.com http://www.sudan.com (* - or woman, child or internet enabled intelligent entity :-)) {Original Message removed}

> Colour gameboys are on sale at present in NZ - about $NZ110 AFAIR = $US45 or > so. > What do they cost elsewhere? > I'm beginning to think that "Rip-off Britain" really does exist and it's not just the price of cars and CD's. A Colour Gameboy is 60 quid say $80 though if you shop around I believe you can get it a little bit cheaper. Lowest Price I have heard recently is 56 quid. Monochrome Gameboy is 30 quid. Emigration is looking increasingly attractive ;-) Chris -- http://www.piclist.com hint: To leave the PICList RemoveMEpiclist-unsubscribe-requestTakeThisOuTmitvma.mit.edu

> I've seen them similarly being dumped at Target departments stores --$9.99 > > Anyone actually done anything with these? > Walmart also had them for this price. Anyone figured out how to use the Gameboy printer? {Quote hidden}> > > Hello All, > > > > over the weekend i discovered gameboy cameras on sale at Best > > Buy for $9.99. I dont know whether this is at all stores, or > > just the one down the hill from me. > > > > for information, the following excerpt from the archives has > > some info and a link or two. > -- http://www.piclist.com hint: To leave the PICList piclist-unsubscribe-requestEraseME.....mitvma.mit.edu