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Xport 2 Turns Game Boy Advance Into Embedded Microcontroller

Posted by simoniker on from the jargon-to-the-flargon dept.

Thanks to Gizmodo for its article discussing the Xport 2.0 unofficial cartridge add-on for the Game Boy Advance, which allows users to turn their GBA "into a user-programmable embedded microcontroller for directing robots, capturing images or video, or operating anything else you can interface to its user-programmable I/O." There's more information on the official Charmed Labs site.

6 of 18 comments (clear)

  1. It's just a matter of time... by pat_trick · · Score: 2, Funny

    Until someone ports linux to it. :)

  2. Great! by JFMulder · · Score: 2, Funny

    Now I can turn my Gameboy Advance into a GameCube controller!!!

    Oh, wait...

  3. Games? by b00m3rang · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Wouldn't this make more sense under the Developers section? Aside from the hardware, which is essentially a display, processor, and I/O, this has absolutely nothing to do with any kind of gaming.

  4. I've just had a vision: by empaler · · Score: 3, Funny

    Hook it up to a radiocontroller for a model car, load a driving game onto it, battle your friends.

    Yes. That would be fun.

  5. A free game-boy programming book by pat_trick · · Score: 4, Informative

    There's a free GBA Programming Book available in .pdf format online at http://www.jharbour.com/ that's worth taking a look at if you're intersted in GBA Programming in general. I'm tempted to try out this kit to see how it fares...$150 is a bit steep of a price for me right now though.

  6. I Figured It Out by spudwiser · · Score: 3, Funny

    Using your Game Boy to control a lego mindstorms kit. This is the peak of civilization, from a toy point of view.

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    .cig - what you do after winning a good flame war