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

<p><img src="/static/images/blog/tinynes.jpg" alt="The TinyNES!" /></p><p>Dan Gilbert of <a href="https://www.tall-dog.com/">Tall Dog</a> joins us to talk about the <a href="https://www.crowdsupply.com/tall-dog-electronics/tinynes/">Tiny Nostalgia Evocation Square (or TinyNES for short)</a>! 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 <a href="https://www.crowdsupply.com/tall-dog-electronics/tinynes/">order your own</a> and support open hardware in the best way possible: by playing video games!</p><p>By the way, we mentioned that FOSS &amp; 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)!</p><p><strong>Links:</strong></p><ul><li><p><a href="https://www.crowdsupply.com/tall-dog-electronics/tinynes/">TinyNES crowdfunding campaign</a> (<a href="https://www.crowdsupply.com/tall-dog-electronics/tinynes/updates/crowdfunding-begins">launch announcement</a>, sources will be on <a href="https://tinynes.com">tinynes.com</a> when campaign succeeds)</p></li><li><p><a href="https://www.tall-dog.com/">Tall Dog</a>, Dan's company (they do some other cool open hardware stuff too, check 'em out!)</p></li><li><p><a href="https://www.tall-dog.com/open_source.html">Tall Dog's statement on supporting open source</a></p></li><li><p>The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOS_Technology_6502">6502 chip</a> and its specially modified version for the Nintendo Enetertainment System, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricoh_2A03">Ricoh 2A03</a></p></li><li><p><a href="https://www.freecadweb.org/">FreeCAD</a> and <a href="https://www.kicad.org/">KiCAD</a></p></li><li><p><a href="http://www.visual6502.org/">Visual6502</a></p></li><li><p><a href="https://github.com/NovaSquirrel/NovaTheSquirrel">Nova the Squirrel</a></p></li><li><p><a href="https://krikzz.com/">Everdrive</a> (proprietary hardware, but lets you run custom ROMs, including Nova)</p></li><li><p><a href="https://pezi-pink.itch.io/c64-robotfindskitten">Robot Finds Kitten on the c64!</a> Written <a href="https://docs.racket-lang.org/asi64/index.html">in Racket</a>!</p></li></ul>