Hacker somehow mods original Game Boy Camera to work with Canon DSLR lenses

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It may be almost 24 years old, but that doesn't mean the Game Boy Camera can't evolve – thanks to some hacking from a persistent YouTuber, the Game Boy accessory has been shown to work with Canon DSLR lenses (albeit with a few understandable trade-offs).

The creation made by YouTuber Conorsev might not replace your Google Pixel 6 Pro – the Game Boy Camera is, after all, a grayscale-only affair with a 0.1MP resolution. But if you're looking for a more challenging photography project than the usual bokeh ball experiments, it could be a fun one to tackle.

The project has to overcome two big challenges. Firstly, there was the hurdle of importing the Game Boy Camera's photos from the handheld console itself. The camera, which plugs into the Game Boy's cartridge slot, is designed to only send its image data to the Game Boy Printer (smart thinking, Nintendo).

But this was overcome by soldering a cheap Arduino board to the Printer's cable to intercept the data, then using a Game Boy Emulator to build a digital version of the image.

The more challenging part of the hack was replacing the Game Boy Camera's wide-angle lens with DSLR glass. Isolating the camera sensor was simply a case of dismantling the camera with a specialist screwdriver, but creating a mount for the DSLR lens involved 3D printing an adapter downloaded from Thingiverse.

As Conorsev discovered, it's best to print this in black to avoid light seeping through the adapter and over-exposing your photos. The original Canon DSLR lens adapter design, which is in the video's description, also had too long a flange distance (which is the space between the sensor and back of the lens) to work the first time.

But after reprinting the DSLR adaptor with a shorter flange distance,