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As this contest comes to a close, it's time to make my final Submission for the Egg Boy Color and see where I landed relative to my goals! Final Submission I started out on a quest to make the smallest Game Boy Color I possibly, specifically one that's actually feasible to play on, and I...

It's finally time to talk about the software for this thing, and all of the woe that has come along with that. A Quick Refresher As previously noted, despite the Egg Boy Color being a legitimate GBC with the OG GBC chips, there is software involved, which handles three key things(and one...

Moving on to buttons, which -- unlike most other console mods, which use existing commercially produced buttons -- are bespoke, due to the small size of the system. The Design In short: they sure are buttons. The initial intent was to make monolithic buttons -- that is to say, buttons with...

With the electronics out of the way, I'll now talk a bit about the shell: what changed since the original log entry, how I fabbed it, and how it has turned out. The Final Design The final design remains largely consistent with the original work that was done -- it got a couple millimeters...

Despite my lack of worklog entries over the last 3 months, things have been rolling right along. However, because of the large amount of information there is to go over, I'll be splitting up the updates by workstream over the next few days. Today, I'll be going over the electronics...

Got started on the Egg Boy Color electronics this past weekend by designing an RP2040 development board for the main LCD candidate that I'm considering for this project. LCD Info Model: ET015SQ05 Size: 1.54" Resolution: 320x320x16bpp Interface: SPI, ST7796U driver I've also attached the...

Hey all! I'm back for a second year, and intend to finish this time -- as a matter of fact, I've already made it farther than last year by posting a thread. Setting the Stage You may know me from my prior projects where I made custom form factor Game Boy Colors using original hardware: Frog...

Hello! I've been around the Discord a while, but posting here because I need thread posting permissions for my summer contest entry, lol.

I'm definitely down to show up for one day and show of the Frog and Tad Boys, and the Time Frog.