Game Boy Color laminated IPS mod
Over the years I have accumulated quite a collection of Game Boys ranging from the original DMG to Game Boy Advance and DS Lite, there was one that was missi...
Everyday hacks
As a software engineer I feel the need to work on something tangible sometimes. This is my space to document my hardware tinkering projects. The posts are by no means extensive nor clear instructions on how to do things, but rather to show friends and colleagues things that I like to work on.
Recent posts
Replacing the Pebble 2 buttons with 3d printed ones
My first smartwatch was a Pebble (the Kickstarter edition!) and after that a Pebble 2 (also a Kickstarter edition) because of the heart rate monitor. I final...
Revisiting Game Boy multi-rom carts
Multi-rom carts… I’ve look into one before in a previous post, but that was back in 2018 and a lot has changed in the mean time!
Repairing my son’s Mr. Owl night light
My two-year-old son received a Mr. Owl (Meneer de Uil) night light as a gift from a dear friend of mine. There’s a button on the base that you need to hold f...
Adding a battery to a bootleg Game Boy cartridge
In recent years I haven’t been tinkering with Game Boys or bootlegs as much as I used to, but sometimes I do some Googling to see if there’s anything cool ou...
Batteryless saves for GBA
Back when the original DMG was released, flash chips were prohibitively expensive to use as storage medium for video games. In order to still be able to reta...
Recapping a Sega Game Gear
I’ve always been a Nintendo kid, never had a Sega console. Wait, that’s not true, I still have the Dreamcast that I bought new when they went on sale. It has...
Backlighting a Game Boy Pocket with a burnt polarizer
After the good experience I had with the Japanese Game Boy games from Japan 4 You I decided to pickup some cheap Game Boy Pockets. They list a lot of items a...