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Re: lcd screen in a GameBoy

From: Robert Wohleb <>
Date: Thu, 04 Nov 1999 19:30:48 -0800

I think an even bigger problem would be deciding how you wanted to use
it. I mean with those dimension you could easily attach it to the back
of your arm or something similiar, but anything near the head would be
hard. As for the display interface, you use it as an auxillery display
with minimal additional components from a serial port. If you had an LCD
touch screen you could even make selections.

Maybe this would be good for a wearable mp3 player that has a list of
songs. This would be secondary to the main display and thus wouldn't
interfere with other things on a fast enougth machine. A nice addon for
those on the run with a wearable who likes to listen to music........

Rob Wohleb

Brandon Macmillan wrote:

> Hi, I'm verry new to wearable computers. I don't even have one. But I
> hope to get the funds soon to build my own. Now I have a question for
> all of you. Has any one ever thought of using the LCD screen out of a
> game boy, the little hand held game systems produced by nintendo? the
> dimentions of the screen are 1-3/4" x 2". and the new color gameboys
> have a colored lcd screen. My gameboy will run for quite along time on
> 2 AA batteries so I asume the power drain is negligble. It may be hard
> as hell to hack the screen to display video input but..... If anyone
> has tried this let me know Brandon Macmillan

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