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Hardware > Gameboy / Gameboy Advanced Robot Controller

#26193 - starunj - Thu Sep 09, 2004 9:24 am

I vaguely remember reading about someone using the Gameboy Advanced or the Gameboy to control a robot - I think I read it on slashdot. I'm not able to find it now . . .

If you know abt any project that did this, please let me know!

#26194 - cocole - Thu Sep 09, 2004 10:55 am

That would be http://www.charmedlabs.com/ ?

#26204 - starunj - Thu Sep 09, 2004 5:09 pm

nope . . .i remember seeing a picture with a gameboy advance and a cartridge with wires coming out of it.

how does one access the GBAs processor through the cartridge slot? is there some controll unit that can interface to its processor?

thanks!

#26234 - crossraleigh - Thu Sep 09, 2004 11:52 pm

Take a closer look at the link cocole gave you. That's the only robot kit for the GBA I know of; it's also the only kit I could find mentioned on Slashdot. (Is this the article you were thinking of?)

If wires coming out of a cartridge is what you want, the Xport has that. Also, how did you want to interface a processor besides executing instructions on it? If thats all you need, the GBA can run code from a normal cartridge just fine.

#26241 - Krakken - Fri Sep 10, 2004 1:31 am

No I remember another one too. It's in the news somewhere, go look through the archives.