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The site appears to be overworked for the moment, so I can't read it.

My question (which may or may not be answered in the post): what made you embark on this project?

I don't mean "because I can" stuff - it's an awesome hack. What I mean is: what made the Gameboy Camera culturally relevant for you to hack on? What ideas started this? Did you own a Gameboy Camera in your youth? Did you have a fantasy of something like this then?




It's a shame you got downvotes for a polite, friendly, question. (I upvoted you but it doesn't seem to have made much difference).

In the cache the author says:

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?sclient=psy-ab...

> Back in 1998, the Gameboy camera got the world record as “smallest digital camera” in the Guinness book of records. An accessory you could buy was the small printer you could use to print your images. When I was 10 years old we had one of these cameras at home and used it a lot. Although we did not have the printer, taking pictures, editing them, and playing minigames was a lot of fun. Unfortunately, I could not find my old camera (no colored young Roland pictures, unfortunately), but I did buy a new one so I could test my application.




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