Xport 2 Turns Game Boy Advance Into Embedded Microcontroller

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.

It's just a matter of time...

[pat_trick]

Until someone ports linux to it. :)

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Games?

[b00m3rang]

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.

Re:Games?

[kai5263499]

"nothing to do with any kind of gaming."

What? How can you be so blind to the mobile gaming arena? In which case the GBA is king (hey, even nokia tried to upset them with their bastard phone flop last year).

For those of us who don't tend to stay in one place for very long, mobile gaming is the only thing we've got.

I don't mean the GBA, I mean the microcontroller

[b00m3rang]

It's about as relevant as posting, "Honeywell has released a new embedded system to monitor A/C cooling tower status" in the Games area.

Re:I don't mean the GBA, I mean the microcontrolle

[DaFlusha]

Well, I love programming embedded systems stuff related to games. I don't follow the Development section, because I don't care about 99% of stuff posted there. But I follow games stuff; if they post things about game engines here, then anything game-dev-related belongs here, too.

Re:That's nice

[empaler]

Gay, in the meaning of merry or happy can be very polite.

I've just had a vision:

[empaler]

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

Yes. That would be fun.

A free game-boy programming book

[pat_trick]

There's a free GBA Programming Book available in .pdf format online at http://www.jharbour.com/ [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.

I Figured It Out

[spudwiser]

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

PDA

[j.bellone]

So why can't I use it as a cheap PDA? Throw in a nice small little hard-drive in there, and I have a portable device that can pass through customs... err... I mean that can hold all those episodes of Mr Rogers.