--------------- cc:Mail Forwarded --------------- From: Russell McMahon AT ~INTERNET Date: 12/07/99 09:04 AM To: PICLIST@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. http://www.mitsubishichips.com/products/assps/a_retina/index.htm 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 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 _____________________________ >From other worlds - www.easttimor.com www.sudan.com What can one man* do? Help the hungry at no cost to yourself! at http://www.thehungersite.com/ (* - or woman, child or internet enabled intelligent entity :-))