15-10-2026 19:15 via theregister.com

YouTuber built 30-frame-per-second grayscale Game Boy, then open sourced it for all e-paper displays

Sure, running emulated Game Boy games at 30 fps with four shades of gray on an E Ink screen is cool, but you know what's cooler? A custom open source E Ink driver that could theoretically let any display do the same thing. YouTuber Bo Made It published a video last week demonstrating what he calls the InkBoy on a tiny ESP32-S3-powered e-paper board. It looks just about as good as the old-fashioned olive-green screen on the original Game Boy, which isn’t saying much, but it’s an impre
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