• By Eliza Gauger
    May 27, 2006 3:40 PM 803
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    Here's Hoping Your Gameboy Becomes a Robot

    Charmed Labs has come out with a homebrew GameBoy Advance insertable called the Xport 2.0. The naked widget plugs into the cartridge slot of the Game Boy Advance and:

    [...] allows the Xport hardware to be tailored to your target application, and the 64 digital I/O signals provide programmable I/O for interfacing to practically any hardware device.

    The website has some awesome .WMVs of the GBA-bots in action, demonstrating basic wandering and barrier-avoidance (complete with event-triggered They Might Be Giants audio samples from the bot itself), holonomic motion (frisbee-like spinning while scooting across the floor), and a video entitled "Teach" in which the GameBot is shoved around like a toy car being played with, and then released. It then autonomously repeats the movements it was "taught" just a few seconds ago. Outstanding! Eliza Gauger

    Gameboy + LEGO = Robot [Charmed Labs]


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