recently a few of my mods have been called into question regarding their complexity, rather than seeing this as a negative i saw this as a challenge to do better. so i have been working on a few more complex mods.
first i gotta thank Nitro2k01 for sticking by me on this project, there were a few times when i was going to give up on this, but staying up late, bouncing ideas off each other made this project happen 
so this is my USB enabled camera, it is a gameboy camera with its ROM chip replaced with a flashable chip, and a usb programmer wedged in there too.
whats the point? well now the camera works like a real digital camera, i can plug it straight into the computer and dump the saves without a gameboy or a programmer. If littleFM works i can put the camera software on there and other roms too like LSDJ. if i can work out how the camera part works then i could make some interesting home brew software which uses the camera.
here is the YOUTUBE vide of it working just as a flashable cart:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJzXXwwNX4k
first i gutted a USB cart for parts and removed the rom chip from the camera
then got round to wiring it all up
this is the first time it was all wired up. it didn't work, i re did this 3 times before it worked!!!
attempt 2
attempt 3 finally working, with a new camera board as the last one broke
more wire porn
after i got it working, i thought about the future of the project and decided that i wanted a replaceable battery. lifting the chip broke off pin 44 of the flash chip so i had to cut away the chip to get enough metal to solder on. NOT FUN
removing the battery
i scraped some of the green stuff off the board to make new solder pads for the new battery
i also recycled the old battery terminal
new battery holder in place, i am not looking forward to changing it tho
sticky foam for the chip
i wanted the usb port properly mounted so i managed to find some space on the board for it to fit then scraped off more green stuff to make solder points.
then the ATMEGA chip, this was a horrible bit because i couldn't test it until it was all finished and there were 44 wires to do. i also had to step up my game for this one, i had to find smaller wire and file down my soldering iron so it was small enough.
checking with the SP showed that i had cocked up somewhere because the nintendo logo was scrambled until i realised the new chip was causing errors because i hadn't wired the ground pin yet, after that it was fine
ATMEGA chip done, now for the serial chip
serial chip in place and time for a test
test failed because i wired the VCC wire to the wrong pin
now the project works i stuck down the serial chip
after all that tiny work, i cut a very poor hole in the side... should have made the effort to make it neat after all that work!
now all thats left to do is hack the camera software and make some kind of cool video camera software!!
