39: The TinyNES: An Open Hardware "Tiny Nostalgia Evocation Square"

FOSS and Crafts

Dan Gilbert of Tall Dog joins us to talk about the Tiny Nostalgia Evocation Square (or TinyNES for short)! The TinyNES is an open hardware system compatible with the compatible with original Nintendo Entertainment System and Famicom cartridges and controllers. Instead of being just an emulator or FPGA-based implementation, the TinyNES uses the original 6502-derived chips and a custom circuit board, preserving and carrying forward computing history! Oh yeah, and it's also running a crowdfunding campaign, so you can order your own and support open hardware in the best way possible: by playing video games!

By the way, we mentioned that FOSS & Crafts Studios would be launching its first collaboration... we're helping to run the crowdfunding campaign on this one (and couldn't be more excited about it)!

Links:

• TinyNES crowdfunding campaign (launch announcement, sources will be on tinynes.com when campaign succeeds)

• Tall Dog, Dan's company (they do some other cool open hardware stuff too, check 'em out!)

• Tall Dog's statement on supporting open source

• The 6502 chip and its specially modified version for the Nintendo Enetertainment System, the Ricoh 2A03

• FreeCAD and KiCAD

• Visual6502

• Nova the Squirrel

• Everdrive (proprietary hardware, but lets you run custom ROMs, including Nova)

• Robot Finds Kitten on the c64! Written in Racket!