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    ArduinoBoy: A MIDI system in a Game Boy

    John Biggs

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    Biggs is the East Coast Editor of TechCrunch. Biggs has written for the New York Times, InSync, USA Weekend, Popular Mechanics, Popular Science, Money and a number of other outlets on technology and wristwatches. He is the former editor-in-chief of Gizmodo.com and lives in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. You can Tweet him here and G+ him here. Email him directly at... → Learn More

    Tuesday, October 7th, 2008
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    Arduinoboy mGB from trash80 on Vimeo.

    This haxor installed an Arduino Mini into a Game Boy case and then used a MIDI keyboard to play through the internal speaker. It basically turns the Game Boy into a synthesizer. The code is open so you can mod it all yourself. The Arduino is an open hardware platform that we’ve covered here quite a bit.

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