As beloved because the Game Boy Camera stays a long time after its 1998 debut, it’s nonetheless saddled with a giant technological hurdle: getting the images off the system for archival and sharing functions. A myriad of options have been created over the years, from cables to cartridge adapters, however none as easy to make use of as Matt Gray’s wireless adapter.

When it first debuted, the one technique to actually protect the black and white, pixelated, 128×112-pixel pictures the Game Boy Camera snapped (it might solely maintain 30 photographs earlier than you wanted to completely delete them) was by means of the Game Boy Printer accent, which created arduous copies on thermal paper that doesn’t precisely stand the take a look at of time. Companies like Mad Catz created special link cables and Windows apps that would pull pictures off the console, however they’re extraordinarily arduous to return by now, and who desires to run to their laptop computer to dump images after we all carry round extraordinarily refined pocket computer systems?

Gray’s Game Boy Camera Fast Wifi Adapter is powered by two particular items of {hardware} hidden away inside a {custom} 3D-printed enclosure: a Raspberry Pi Zero W and a GBxCart RW which is a tool that emulates the unique Game Boy’s cartridge slot permitting ROM information, save video games, and different knowledge saved on recreation carts—like images—to be backed as much as a pc.

Using the adapter appears extremely simple, and it doesn’t even require the Game Boy {hardware}. The digicam merely slots into the highest of the adapter which pulls the pictures from the digicam roll and makes them out there over wifi on an internet site that may be accessed from a smartphone’s net browser, or actually any system possible that may be part of a wi-fi community and cargo an internet web page.

Although Gray might simply make a small fortune mass-producing their wi-fi Game Boy Camera adapter, they don’t seem to have any plans to place them into manufacturing, sadly. They have, nevertheless, shared a thorough breakdown of how it was built on GitHub, together with downloads for the {custom} software program they wrote, and even the mannequin information for the 3D-printed enclosure.