Wow, this is really nicely done. This system is a love letter to the best game consoles of the 80's.
It looks like it would be great for building small-scale interactive museum exhibits. You want something durable, easy to program, hard to mess with and self-contained that can output video simply and is able to connect to highly custom inputs.
I'm a little concerned it might be hard to replace, though, considering the Gameduino is a custom chip.
Museum exhibits often have very long lives. The legendary Charles and Ray Eames exhibit for IBM, Mathematica, is now 50 years old but still on display at the Boston Museum of Science. Okay, not really relevant, but I totally love that exhibit:
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Wow, this is really nicely done. This system is a love letter to the best game consoles of the 80's.
It looks like it would be great for building small-scale interactive museum exhibits. You want something durable, easy to program, hard to mess with and self-contained that can output video simply and is able to connect to highly custom inputs.
I'm a little concerned it might be hard to replace, though, considering the Gameduino is a custom chip.
Museum exhibits often have very long lives. The legendary Charles and Ray Eames exhibit for IBM, Mathematica, is now 50 years old but still on display at the Boston Museum of Science. Okay, not really relevant, but I totally love that exhibit:
http://www.designboom.com/eng/funclub/mathematica.html
There using an fpga for the video chip with public verilog sources - so you could adapt it to different fpga devices if you had to.