{"id":1505,"date":"2009-03-30T21:32:24","date_gmt":"2009-03-31T05:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/?p=1505"},"modified":"2026-02-18T11:05:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T19:05:22","slug":"a408-meggy-jr-rgb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/?p=1505","title":{"rendered":"#a408 :: Meggy Jr. RGB"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/033009.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1506\" title=\"033009\" src=\"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/033009-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"033009\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" align=\"right\" srcset=\"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/033009-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/033009-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/033009.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>It&#8217;s finished.<\/p>\n<p>My son and I just soldered the last wires into place on <a href=\"http:\/\/evilmadscience.com\/tinykitlist\/100-meggyjr\">this<\/a> tonight, and it lit up perfectly.<\/p>\n<p>The Meggy Jr. RGB &#8211; a handheld video game with open-source, programmable memory chip &#8211; is ready for business.<\/p>\n<p>Eight solid hours we hunched over a dizzying array of resistors, capacitors, transistors and LED, scrupulously following the Evil Mad Science Shop&#8217;s instructions &#8211; I held the soldering iron to the contacts, he fed the solder into the connections &#8211; achieving a meticulous rhythm. Both of us thrilled to death to be working on something so fun, and with so much potential.<\/p>\n<p>We downloaded the <a href=\"http:\/\/arduino.cc\">Arduino environment<\/a> just before bedtime, and tomorrow night we&#8217;ll start dipping our toes into the simple (but nonetheless scary) business of trying to program a game.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve ever considered soldering together a little electronics kit, this one is great. It&#8217;s beautifully designed, and pretty damn easy to build.<\/p>\n<p>Especially if you have a 9-year-old son who loves games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s finished. My son and I just soldered the last wires into place on this tonight, and it lit up perfectly. The Meggy Jr. RGB &#8211; a handheld video game with open-source, programmable memory chip &#8211; is ready for business. Eight solid hours we hunched over a dizzying array of resistors, capacitors, transistors and LED, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,3,13,8,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fetish","category-instrument","category-objet","category-tool","category-toy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1505"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1781,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505\/revisions\/1781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}