markbowers.org - 11/18/2008
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Now lets see if this thing still boots in this condition... Which it, naturally does. But I just had to be sure. So here's a shot of my TI-84 next to the GBC innards. Looks like this just might work. It's going to take a bit of wiring to map the keys to the original TI-83 ...
blog.makezine.com - 11/18/2008
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blog.makezine.com —
This hack shows how to stuff a Nintendo
Gameboy inside the housing of a TI-83 series calculator....
We've seen the cool things these calculators can be hacked to do, but we haven't seen someone take it this far. Unfortunately, I think it would be ...
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Gameboy gets implanted inside a TI-83 series calculator
ohgizmo.com - 11/18/2008
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ohgizmo.com —
By Andrew Liszewski I’m going to file this
one under ‘things I wish I’d thought of when...
I was in high school.’ I can’t tell you how often I relied on a graphing calculator to get me through a boring class, whether it ...
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Game Boy Color Crammed Inside A TI-83 Calculator
gadgets.boingboing.net - 11/18/2008
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ti_gameboy.jpg Some covert gamers spend all their time
programming Tetris clones for their graphing calculators. Others simply...
rip out the guts of a GameBoy and cram it into their old TI-84s. It's the difference between programmers-in-the-making and ...
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GameBoy in a graphing calculator - Boing Boing Gadgets
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Gameboy gets implanted inside a TI-83 series calculator
MAKE Magazine —
... This hack shows how to stuff a Nintendo Gameboy inside the housing of a TI-83 series calculator. We've seen the cool things these calculators can be hacked to do, but we haven't seen someone take it this far. Unfortunately, I think it would be more impressive if he got the TI-83's hardware to play Gameboy games, rather than just soldering the keys to the original Gameboy's controller. Oh well, still a nice site with lots of pics of the build.
GameBoy Color inside a TI-83 series calculator
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Hide a Gameboy inside a Ti-83 calculator
CrunchGear —
Tired of playing Drug Wars or a Mario remake on your ‘ol Ti-83 calculator? Just transplate a Gameboy inside a Ti-83 carcass and no one will be the wiser. All it takes is a little cutting and soldering to mod the screen and map the keypad but after that, your Kirby game’n will be hidden from curious eyes.
MarkBowers.org via MAKE
Game Boy Color Crammed Inside A TI-83 Calculator
OhGizmo! —
... particularly cool is that he actually mapped the TI-83’s 4-way directional pad and various other keys to the directional pad and A, B, Start & Select buttons on the Game Boy Color. While the screen on the final product suffers from a bit of letterboxing on the sides because of the smaller GB display, and the underside features an unfortunate bulge because of the batteries, from the top I doubt of any of Mark’s teachers would discover his clever ruse.
[ MarkBowers.org - GameBoy Color inside a TI-83 series calculator ] VIA [ MAKE: Blog ] ...
GameBoy in a graphing calculator
Boing Boing Gadgets —
Some covert gamers spend all their time programming Tetris clones for their graphing calculators. Others simply rip out the guts of a GameBoy and cram it into their old TI-84s. It's the difference between programmers-in-the-making and hackers-in-the-offing!
GameBoy Color inside a TI-83 series calculator [Mark Bowers via OhGizmo!]
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