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Ash Hill

SHOCKING: Raspberry pi pico game boy printer emulates the original to a t - What They Never Told You

Raspberry Pi.

It's no secret that the Raspberry Pi and the Raspberry Pi Pico can emulate a plethora of old school consoles. But Dr. Raphaël Boichot has taken things a step further by emulating a classic accessory to the Nintendo Game Boy line. Using our favorite microcontroller, the Raspberry Pi Pico, he's created a Game Boy Printer emulator and dubbed the project TinyGB Printer.

You may be thinking "A printer for the Nintendo Game Boy?". Yes it was a thing. Used with the Game Boy Camera, 90s kids had their own digital camera with a 128x112 grayscale resolution, and a thermal printer on which to share their snaps!

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