We all know the Nintendo Game Boy camera peripheral, and we’ve seen plenty of hacks for it on these pages over the years. We like [Raphael Boichot]’s camera then, as instead of including a Game Boy or emulating one, it talks directly to the sensor from an RP2040. The result is a standalone camera with slightly better quality than the original, and with near-limitless storage and easy retrieval of pictures.
For us the interesting revelation from this project comes in the light it sheds on the sensor module, the Mitsubishi M64282FP, but it’s no slouch as a camera beside that. There are motion sensor and timelapse modes, as well the ability to take high dynamic range pictures, and as if that’s not enough it also has all the tweakable things you’d expect from a “proper” camera. The oldest adage in photography is that the best camera in the world is the one in your hand, and we’d say that this one’s better than a real Game Boy Camera should the once-in-a-lifetime picture come while you’re holding it.
Of course, a better Game Boy camera needs a better lens, right?
Now it just needs to connect to a zebra printer
Maybe a USB webcam option. There is still one core unused and free memory.
Wan, the fact using that extra core is a bit tricky almost always means we’re leaving half the performance on the table really bugs me. It’s driving me to finally learn c++ proper, since using the other core seems impossible with micro/circuit python.