During the last years we have witnessed how large companies have managed to get some of their consoles, or devices, to position themselves as among the best inventions, as we have already seen with Nintendo Switch or PlayStation VR. But far from technology that brings us closer to what it seemed like a dream when we were littleWe found how the ingenuity of some can do wonderful things and make your life a little easier. Put yourself in the following situation. Day of high temperatures in summer, you are willing to turn on your air conditioning but its control does not respond, this could mean having to endure several days until the technical service gives you another. A Twitter user has shown us an idea that replaces the traditional command
Excited to be able to control my air-conditioner with a GameBoy Color, using my own ROM!
(How I built it: https://t.co/K1Rzhx0qbn ) pic.twitter.com/wQGq3iMHQC
– JinGen Lim (@jg_lim) April 27, 2020
The creator of this idea has been JinGen Lim. With a little ingenuity, he has managed to program a GameBoy cartridge to be able to use it as a remote control for his air conditioning, a very geek way to replace the traditional one. This idea happened because the Game Boy Color has an infrared transmitter