Edge of Emulation: Game Boy Sewing Machines (2020)

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mosura

2 days ago


9 comments

dfajgljsldkjag 2 days ago

I had no idea you could connect a Game Boy to a sewing machine. The Mario embroidery patterns actually look kind of cute now that they are working. It is nice to see people preserving weird pieces of history like this.

vessenes 2 days ago

I wasn't sure whether this was emulating the sewing machine, or driving an actual sewing machine from the emulator -- it's the latter.

Followup request - digital emulated sewing machine! Should be a breeze based on the blog!

  • jogu 2 days ago

    In the video at the end you can see it’s the former. They’re drawing a digital representation of the commands the emulator is sending to the “sewing machine”.

    • vessenes 10 hours ago

      my bad - I read but didn't watch. okay now I want the latter

  • giancarlostoro 2 days ago

    If you can emulate the sewing machine... can you run it fast enough to run a GB emulator inside of it? : )

mock-possum 2 days ago

Wow crazy that there aren’t more screenshots of the actual software UI that’s what I was really hoping for here