[HN Gopher] Orange FM Prototype - Analogue Pocket Demo
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       Orange FM Prototype - Analogue Pocket Demo
        
       Author : bookofjoe
       Score  : 64 points
       Date   : 2024-06-14 19:09 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (orangegb.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (orangegb.com)
        
       | squarefoot wrote:
       | Always fascinating to see how many different ways old hardware
       | can be repurposed when it's left even moderately open to hacking.
       | Most of those hacked Gameboys and similar hardware would have
       | been thrown in a landfill decades ago instead of being used today
       | to play with electronics and programming. As for adding radio
       | capability to old hardware, there are super cheap very small
       | modules available using the RDA5807, TEA5767 and similar chips
       | that can be easily driven by a microcontroller; some are well
       | supported by Arduino libraries.
       | 
       | https://github.com/pu2clr/RDA5807
       | 
       | https://github.com/big12boy/TEA5767
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       | https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32310815975.html
       | 
       | (no relation with the seller, just search for chip name and
       | module)
        
       | Cthulhu_ wrote:
       | Why was this not a thing during the GB's heyday? Lack of hardware
       | that small / advanced? Or simply no market fit? I mean this was
       | during the walkman / portable CD player era, I recall having a
       | small portable radio around then as well.
       | 
       | No gameboy though, those things were expensive! Relatively
       | anyway, like 4x our birthday budgets.
        
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