Pepijn de Vos created this method to trade and battle Pokemon over the Internet:
a collection of projects that allow you to connect your Game Boy to the internet and trade or battle with the first and second generation Pokemon games
KiCad design files of Teensy 2.0 shield for a Game Link Cable:
tcpoke_shield
Arduino sketch runs on Teensy 2.0 and talks to a Game Boy via raw HID mode:
tcpoke_teensyTCPoke shield kit is sold on Tindie:
Hackaday reports on this mix of Pokemon Go and DIY electronics:
Beware Of Tall Grass: Pokemon Go on the Gameboy Pocket
[Pepijn de Vos] was excited to interact with the world’s most popular augmented reality pedometer, Pokemon Go, and was extremely disappointed to find that his Blackberry couldn’t run it. Still, as far as he could tell from behind his wall of obsolete technology, Pokemon Go is all about walking distractedly, being suspicious, and occasionally catching […]
TCPoke shield kit on Tindie:
Despite concerted efforts to kill them, serial ports are alive and well, especially in embedded system. True, most of them end in a USB port, these days, but there’s still a lot of gear with a DE-9 (it isn’t a DB-9, despite the common use of the word) or a TTL-serial port lurking around. [James…
Building on the work of other Citizen Science efforts, [doctek]’s entry for the Hackaday Prize promises to detect pollution, identify chemicals, and perform other analyses with a simple handheld device. It’s a spectrophotometer, and [doctek] is putting some real engineering into this build. A spectrophotometer is one of the simplest devices able to perform spectroscopy,…
via Hackaday Prize Entry: A Simple Spectrophotometer — Hackaday
Don’t worry, the rhythms themselves aren’t random! That would hardly make for a useful drum machine. [kbob]’s creation does have the ability to randomly generate functional rhythms, though, and it’s all done on a breadboard. The core of this tiny drum machine is two Teensy dev boards. One is an FM synth tuned to sound like drums,…
Tritium, or 3H is an isotope of hydrogen which has been used as everything from radiolabel in analytical chemistry to a booster to kickstart the chain reaction of nuclear weapons. Lately tritium’s most common use has been in key chains and jewelry. A small amount of tritium is stored in a phosphor coated glass tube.…
via TritiLED Lights Up The Night, Doesn’t Make You Glow — Hackaday
It has been a while since the last LED related article. Was experimented the linear current source, its pros and cons and the field of application. Now arises the need of a small version, handling the same high power, things that are contrapposed in the linear regulator. I need something that I can bring with […]
via Tiny, robust, low cost, fail-safe LED driver: the Glighter-S project — ALEA
For Christmas I designed and built six steam-punk owl clocks that have a novel faux Nixie Tube display. Nixie tubes are wonderful with their glass tube bodies and brightly glowing numerals, but think how wonderful a solid-state low-power any color “Nixie Tube” would be! The basic idea is that you position an LED at the […]
A special stackup intended for a variety of high-power and low weight circuit designs. This service features a 0.032″ (0.8mm) thick PCB, and includes 2oz (2.8mil, 70um) copper. That’s half the thickness of our standard boards, and with twice the copper!
Half-height PCBs from OSHPark will allow us to measure mag fields in tight gaps.
OSH Park 