You already know these digital photograph frames that litter the cabinets of thrift shops? The varieties that have been offered at Sharper Picture 20 years in the past and are actually peddled by podcast advertisements like they’re one thing new? They’re truly fairly neat if you will get previous the stigma. Your photographs are all digital anyway, in order that they make sense. However they aren’t superb for the tiny, low-res photos that come from the legendary Sport Boy Digital camera. That’s why Dr. Raphaël Boichot created Pico Slide Present particularly to show Sport Boy Digital camera footage as they’re meant to be proven.
Dr. Boichot is an precise physician (within the PhD sense) and has printed all types of very technical papers. We are able to’t perceive them, however they’ve many citations and so we assume they’re good. However much more necessary than Dr. Boichot’s contributions to science are his contributions to the Sport Boy group. The Sport Boy Digital camera is iconic within the gaming and tech worlds, but it surely has all the time been troublesome to get common individuals to grasp that. What are you gonna do, whip out your DMG-01 to indicate everybody? They’ll assume you’re a baby!
The right approach to showcase these grainy little footage is with Pico Slide Present. It is a small machine with just a little display to show Sport Boy Digital camera photos at their native decision. The show is a 0.85” TFT with a decision of 128×128. The Sport Boy Digital camera’s CMOS sensor has a decision of 128×128 — although it truly shops photos at 128×112. However a number of black rows on the high and backside aren’t going to harm anybody.
The opposite {hardware} on the Pico Slide Present’s customized PCB features a Waveshare RP2040 Zero growth board, a DD05CVSA battery charging module, and a 500mAh lithium battery. There are additionally push buttons and switches for interplay.
The machine is programmable by the Arduino IDE, however it will possibly’t work with Sport Boy Digital camera photos instantly. So, Dr. Boichot supplies a utility to transform photos right into a C-friendly format (primarily simply arrays of bytes). Getting the pictures from an actual Sport Boy and Sport Boy Digital camera to a contemporary PC isn’t simple, however there are workarounds. Dr. Boichot recommends Photograph! (untoxa’s “gb-photo” on GitHub) for an answer that gained’t make you wish to throw the one you love Sport Boy right into a river.
And that’s it! Now you may show your Sport Boy Digital camera photographs in all their glory. We propose utilizing double-sided tape to stay a bunch of Pico Slide Present gadgets onto your wall, probably linked by strands of crimson yarn, for the best presentation.
