Dan Gilbert of Tall Dog joins us to talk

about theTiny Nostalgia Evocation Square (or TinyNES for short)!The TinyNES is an open hardware system compatible with the compatiblewith original Nintendo Entertainment System and Famicom cartridges andcontrollers.Instead of being just an emulator or FPGA-based implementation, theTinyNES uses the original 6502-derived chips and a custom circuitboard, preserving and carrying forward computing history!Oh yeah, and it's also running a crowdfunding campaign,so you can order your ownand support open hardware in the best way possible: by playing video games!

By the way, we mentioned that FOSS & Crafts Studios would be launching

its first collaboration... we're helping to run the crowdfundingcampaign on this one (and couldn't be more excited about it)!

Links:

• TinyNES crowdfunding campaign (launch announcement, sources will be on tinynes.com when campaign succeeds)

• Tall Dog, Dan's company (they do some

  other cool open hardware stuff too, check 'em out!)

• Tall Dog's statement on supporting open source

• The 6502 chip

  and its specially modified version for the Nintendo Enetertainment System, the
  Ricoh 2A03

• FreeCAD and KiCAD

• Visual6502

• Nova the Squirrel

• Everdrive (proprietary hardware, but lets

  you run custom ROMs, including Nova)

• Robot Finds Kitten on the c64!

  Written in Racket!