I'm so glad everyone is enjoying the project! If you're interested in making/buying your own version of these, I'm definitely going to make them available in some form! If you don't want to miss news on that then make sure you're on my new mailing list at abe.today/pages/subscribe (it's also linked in my bio under "Mailing List"). Please also comment if you're interested in a kit, a complete drive, just the files, etc. I'm really not sure what's possible but I'd like to do whatever lets the most people enjoy these :) Thanks for watching
sell a man a kit, he nostalgia's for a day, give a man stls, schematics, code snippets and board numbers, he nostalgias for a generation I would buy a kit, but i would be sad without the files required to send out for fabricating more of the cards and parts that might break
If you put the PCB design on PCBWay shared projects, you get 10% commission on each order. Or you could sell the files on your store. I imagine selling a complete product would be a challenge. I wonder if it would be popular enough to be a kickstarter?
I am very looking forward to a potential kit/schematics. I think that it would be interesting to combine the loader with a floppy emu like a Gotek to give my Amiga 500 a working cartridge slot in lieu of its original internal floppy or even an external floppy drive.
I would love the files, at least! Once I have a game completed, I'd really like to sell physical cartridges (and corresponding drives) at a convention. I was already planning to figure that out, but this format might be perfect! Or at least I can learn a lot if it doesn't quite meet my needs.
I'm surprised how bespoke he went with everything. I probably would have snagged a 32 pin connector for a Gameboy, wired it to the SD reader, then made PCBs that fit in Gameboy cartridge shells. Other than securely mounting the 32 pin connector in the reader, all the difficult engineering problems would be solved.
I really wish after DVDs and Blu Rays, we'd moved to SD Cards or something like this as the new form of physical media instead of everything going to streaming. This is just so much more fun and we should all value owning and supporting our media directly.
i do value it, i never moved on from DVDs really i still have tons laying around i want to get a USB drive to read and write to and also get my tons of movies from i also have a media server, which is quite fun, and where lots of those movies are going to
I really like this project, maybe the demand for something like it doesn't exist on a commercial scale but honestly I feel like maybe it does. I see a trend lately of people trying to live their digital lives more intentionally and cartridges like this sound like it would fit that growing niche well.
Have you seen how many hand helds that are designed to play emulated retro games exist? There's a huge marked for nostalgia tech. Hell Nintendo sold a Game&Watch console with 1 game for like 50$ and it sold like crazy.
You're the reason I took up PCB designing. I was always intimidated by multi-layered pcbs and I didn't want to take the time to learn it. Keep up the fun projects.
YES! I'm not alone! I found a stash of mini disks and just holding them was so nice. They rattle a little when you shake them, there are satisfying snaps when you bring them out of their protective cases, and we haven't even started to talk about actually putting them in the player yet. Man... I miss the tactile feels. Physical copies of Switch games are a handy size and you could probably fit 50 switch cartridges on the same area as a snes cartridge but the feeling of popping them in the switch is non existent... the only way to feel remotely alive when handling a switch game is to lick it
minidiscs are the superlative audio storage format: easily recordable, like a cassette with better seek times, endlessly rewritable, (lossy) digital so the recording won't degrade nearly as quickly, and so brilliantly tactile, especially with a clamshell player (although the MZ-1 has its charm)
In a perfect world they would make SD, MicroSD and MacroSD, with MacroSD being about the size and shape of a credit card, perfect for albums, movies, and games.
Maybe you could use actual credit cards for this, since they already have a chip on them these days, although I don't know if they have enough storage to be usable.
Just get a cheap one and you will probable get hooked and get something nice after you start creating things like me lmao I'm pretty broke so all I have a an ender 3 v2 but I got it to the point my prints come out perfect every time. One day I'll get a bamboo and be able to set and forget my prints but for now I'm happy.
I can't express how much I enjoyed this video. As someone who also loves to feel like a failure and give up for a few months halfway through my projects, I loved the transparency there; but also, I remember in your obsolete game console video your talking about how you weren't really happy with the feel and look of the 3D printed plastic - I appreciated that then as an example of a time where something doesn't turn out *quite* like you envisioned, but you recognize that "done" is better than "perfect" - but I like that even more now that it seems like here, you've overcome that as well and found a way to finish your 3D printed projects in a way that you love. Absolutely awesome and genuinely inspiring, cheers.
This is actually so cool to see! I would love to have a home-media setup where all my movies/TV shows are on cartridges, it's a lot like a DVD collection but without the fragile CDs. I really hope this idea gets expanded upon because I feel like there's an untapped market here!
Hell yeah man. It's always awesome to hear when creators document their difficulties with a project that keeps kicking them in the nuts. Validating and inspiring man, I love seeing how this project evolved. Congrats on the 100k!
Looks incredible dude! The story telling in this video was great, all the little issues that made all the previous iterations not quite work and seeing it all come together in the end was cathartic.
There's genuine advantages to it. Especially if you want to go back to physical media so you can actually own your stuff and then you realize that optical discs are still the most recent form of physical media and they suck ass LOL
I feel like a commercial version of this needs to be made using NAND flash technology similar to an SSD. I feel like that would be necessary for a modern game to run off of a cartridge like this.
I'm not gonna lie when you uploaded that video of your gamework I became absolutley OBSESSED with the idea of sd card based carts. I was really sad for a while because I thought it was just gonna be a one and done. I am so so so glad you carried it farther. I've been losing sleep over the idea of having all my media one one universal style of storage and loading media. This is the kind of project that just solves something that i think is universal... which is the desire to own the media you love but not wanting to have 35 different devices to play them all... and also not wanting to just store them all on a computer. I'm glad you've been just as obsessed about this project as your first video made me and I can't wait to see if you have any plans for it in the future! Keep up the good work! Your videos are amazing!
Yes YES. I've also been toying with making some sort of cartridge for SD cards, not for games but for movies. It's so inspiring to see someone else having gone ahead with a similar project and come out with an amazing piece
I LOVE this idea, I've been keeping my individual project's files on micro SD card to organize them and this would be so cool to be able to keep my files in a nice organized way! I would love to see when this projects files are available and be able to implement them as soon as possible!
This would be an awesome idea for a home theater. I'm old enough to remember the tactile feel of clicking and clacking when opening a VHS, MD (mini disc), cassette tapes, and cartridges for games. Plus it would also be a nice collection on the shelf.
If we could just keep flash storage costs down, then maybe we could achieve that. I'm actually kinda surprised Nintendo was able to pull that off with how volatile that market is. Probably because they never needed more than a few tens of Gigs on each chip. I wonder how things will go with Switch 2. If they still have cartridges then we might see costs go way up for certain games. That's the main reason why they moved to discs in the first place. Way cheaper and less volatile to just produce discs.
They seem to be designed to be used exactly once. Put into a device to upgrade its storage and never touched again until the host device dies or you upgrade the storage again.
I've been wanting to do something like this for a while. I had an idea for a wall-mounted arcade cabinet with an RFID reader that reads what game I'd like to play and immediately launches it. This makes it so each cartridge just has to have an RFID chip inside instead of any sort of custom PCB, making it a bit cheaper to create the cartridges. The cartridge can slot into the machine and emulate contact pads touching.
Check out Mister FPGA with TapTo. It does exactly what you're explaining here. Mister FPGA runs several arcade/computer/console "cores", and TapTo is an NFC reader that launches the game you want by using NFC cards.
This is exactly how the Yoto player works. It’s a music player for kids. The music is stored on an internal drive. You pick an album by inserting its card. Works super well and consistently.
yeah, i had a similar thought but using an old floppy drive and using a qr code label that you place on old floppies that no longer work... that way you get to use the old format in the way you're used to, just instead of the magnetic encoding that's likely bad by now, it's just got a little camera that reads the qr code that is a file name and it loads that off an sd card.
This is one of the most incredible independent projects that I ever seen. Honestly, the result is so stunning and professional! You inspired me a lot! Thanks for the amazing content!
I'm only 1m41s into this video and this is sort of something I thought about a number of years back for my Grandmother. See she used to use VHS tapes to record the TV but when the TV went digital, she lost the ability to do that. I thought about a DVR but she was vision impaired and she'd have never been able to have used some kind of menu system. So I thought about trying to recreate something she was familiar with: A VHS recorder. I'd have a machine that she'd put a 'tape' in (some kind of SD card housing) and she'd select the channel - over here in the UK she was used to 5 channels although we have hundreds. So a nice 1-5 button selection for the channel that a DTV board would 'tune' to and then a nice record, play/pause and stop button. She'd load a 'tape' choose the channel to record and then press the record button. When the TV programme was done, she'd eject the 'tape' and put it to one side and then get another 'tape' to record something else. Sadly I didn't have the expertise to do something like that and she's since passed away, but it was something I thought the older generation of people might be into. Oh well!
Do you even realize what you have here? This could replace Blu-Ray disks as a physical home video format. That’s something you need to do, turn these cartridges into a prototype home video format. The largest 4K UHD disks are 100GB so a 256GB micro SD capable of 4K video should be enough.
Would love to back up old family videos on these cartridges. Eagerly awaiting the chance of the PCB and 3D printing files being released if they ever are
This is the definition of a passion project. That one thing you just can't let go and you gotta finish. Looks awesome! Only thing I'd love to see if a version with a more enclosed top so you could stack a couple of them together (think Apple II Disk Drives).
This has made my day. I love the project, the jokes are top notch and showing your process and mistakes which ultimately leads to your triumphant success is awesome. Well done and this project is dope as hell!
Absolutely agree it's impossible to choose between the beige and the red. This project is really inspirational. Thank you for having the courage to share your setbacks!
I love this. Kudos on continuing iterating until you reached gold! I love the red version, but both are gorgeous and totally look like something out of the late eighties/early nineties. Now I want to make a gameboy style retro handheld that takes these cartridges ;D
I rarely comment on TH-cam but I want to say thank you for making these videos I appreciate how you showed what the process really looks like to do something creative. I know that very technical videos have a much smaller audience but if you ever want to make longer videos showing more of the process of modeling, designing, and programming I will absolutely watch them.
That’s so cool! Both the console and the Button! Congratulations, Abe!! I keep looking at these high tech projects, including retro game consoles that retail for 50 bucks and still somehow deliver the goods. Then I look back at Atari, Genesis, etc. and it seems to me that the loose tolerances for carts and tough, wide contacts- exactly what you’ve emulated - were part of their success. Kudos for using the parts that work the best! That adds both improved functionality and a retro aesthetic
I just got a 3D printer recently and I think I have almost all the parts to try something like this myself. I guess I gotta try it now. Thanks for making such sharply edited and entertaining videos!
I've been working on a similar project but for music (being minidisc style), this is really awesome! The SD NAND is a neat approach, wish there was more of them available lol.
Thank you for not giving up. Sometimes I get in my own funk where feel like my work doesn't matter, but it absolutely does. No matter how small in the grand scheme of things it may seem. By the way, the red one is my personal favorite. ❤
This is awesome! I'm glad someone finally made sd cards feel more like good 'ol cartridges, perfect mix between functional and aesthetic, I need this in my daily life! Also, I love both versions, looks straight like an official nintendo product! Tho I really like the beige one, with that square led reminds me to my old eu snes! New sub, keep it up with the amazing work here!
YES! I have been wanting to make my own version of the Game Boy for the longest time using modern day components while keeping that old school feel, and this is perfect for that! While I haven't made progress past the planning stage at the moment, I have high hops for the future!
This is absolutely delightful! I love this idea so much! Kinda sad the drive that ejected with a servo didn't really work out but still, I think what you made here is really cool. :)
I’m a fan. It’s just a choice preference between physical media and digital media. If I make something or buy something, I’d rather have a physical copy then just the code to go online.
Your vids and shorts are some of my favourite ways to find random bits about different hardware. Awesome all around. Glad you're happy with your channel growth, you deserve it!
It's so funny, I've had effectively this exact idea for over a year now and then youtube recommends me this video! Really cool stuff, I like the red one best personally
Dude. Your builds are amazing, and you deserve the accolades for your success. I have surface-level understanding of any of what you talked about, but you explained out in a way that made computer hardware engineering not seem so daunting of a hobby to attempt one day. Congrats dude 👏🏽
The thought process and work you put into this is amazing. Love the beige drive for nostalgia reasons. Dunno tho if I could pull it off, I actually have a couple of spare 3.5" floppy drives I'd love to use in some capacity but nothing so far came out of it. Thanks for the tips with giving 3D prints a better look too, your final result is stunning to look at.
I've been wanting to make a project like this for such a long time! It's really cool to see someone else take on the project for themselves and do it justice. I am seriously impressed by the quality of this project, but I'd love to see a series of machines that will play three different formats; music (like a walkman), movies and video games. You could even theme the cartridges around the individual media formats. For example, a music cart would be square (for record or cd boxart), and the movies and games would be rectangular (like movie posters or game boxart), but they could all use the same basic mechanism. The world needs a new solid state based media format for collection and archival purposes.
I remember you! You were posting about your Pico-8 console on the subreddit a few years back! Way to finish the project brother! You just got a new sub!
Man, this stuff is just awesome! Makes me think of an idea I had years ago to make my own custom game console using an eeprom to make cartridges (it would be simple things like Pong and maybe old Atari games. Just something simple as a fun project.) Maybe I'll get back to that now that 3D printing makes some of this easier to customize! I enjoy the heck out of your videos!
Very nice, the 3D printer really speeds tinkering like this up. It makes me want one more and more the times I see someone like you make something cool like this. That being said, I think the size of regular SD cards are just right for something normal and yet not microscopic like the appropriately named MicroSDs.
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I'm so glad everyone is enjoying the project! If you're interested in making/buying your own version of these, I'm definitely going to make them available in some form!
If you don't want to miss news on that then make sure you're on my new mailing list at abe.today/pages/subscribe (it's also linked in my bio under "Mailing List"). Please also comment if you're interested in a kit, a complete drive, just the files, etc. I'm really not sure what's possible but I'd like to do whatever lets the most people enjoy these :)
Thanks for watching
sell a man a kit, he nostalgia's for a day,
give a man stls, schematics, code snippets and board numbers, he nostalgias for a generation
I would buy a kit, but i would be sad without the files required to send out for fabricating more of the cards and parts that might break
If you put the PCB design on PCBWay shared projects, you get 10% commission on each order.
Or you could sell the files on your store.
I imagine selling a complete product would be a challenge.
I wonder if it would be popular enough to be a kickstarter?
I would like the files to make and modify myself
I am very looking forward to a potential kit/schematics. I think that it would be interesting to combine the loader with a floppy emu like a Gotek to give my Amiga 500 a working cartridge slot in lieu of its original internal floppy or even an external floppy drive.
I would love the files, at least! Once I have a game completed, I'd really like to sell physical cartridges (and corresponding drives) at a convention. I was already planning to figure that out, but this format might be perfect! Or at least I can learn a lot if it doesn't quite meet my needs.
Abe achieved something never seen before; actually finishing a project you started 2 years earlier.
Wait... you mean people actually finish projects? I just shove the unfinished part in a corner and forget about it
@@xeonon Wait, you still have corners you can shove projects into?
@@oasntetI eated your corners, sorry
@@max-abobeawere they tasty?
@@zaicol850 well.. they tasted
Micro SD cards are cool, but nothing beats the meaty snap of a cartridge. Cool seeing a project stuck in project hell finally see the light of day!
This project brings me joy 🥲
Bigger cartridges are also harder to lose since they’re, you know, *bigger* .
I'm surprised how bespoke he went with everything. I probably would have snagged a 32 pin connector for a Gameboy, wired it to the SD reader, then made PCBs that fit in Gameboy cartridge shells. Other than securely mounting the 32 pin connector in the reader, all the difficult engineering problems would be solved.
I like the Nintendo Sds
I love having 1TB of data on such a small thing.
I really wish after DVDs and Blu Rays, we'd moved to SD Cards or something like this as the new form of physical media instead of everything going to streaming. This is just so much more fun and we should all value owning and supporting our media directly.
Roms ... Read only
We did? What else would u be using except flash storage anymore?
They tried this in Japan. Google "MQS Format" :)
@@xAlexZifkowhen did you buy a sd card with movie on it?
i do value it, i never moved on from DVDs really i still have tons laying around i want to get a USB drive to read and write to and also get my tons of movies from
i also have a media server, which is quite fun, and where lots of those movies are going to
Love how your kitties keep trying to take the components.
they're just trying to help!
microSD cards are also not human-sized, in that they're too small to handle properly.
especially with my meaty fingers!
I really liked full sized SD cards or Flash cards for this reason
@@PrettyFlyForATyGuy Yep the full size SD cards are a pretty good size.
I always thought CompactFlash was the optimum flash card format, in terms of dimensions.
@@jnharton if you drop a micro sd, you are f u c k e d .
I really like this project, maybe the demand for something like it doesn't exist on a commercial scale but honestly I feel like maybe it does. I see a trend lately of people trying to live their digital lives more intentionally and cartridges like this sound like it would fit that growing niche well.
That's a really weird way of saying that people refuse to be a part of an all digital future.
@@tatecheddaras a terminally online loser, i refuse to be part of it either
long live cassette futurism
The compact disc is extremely fragile medium. Games and movies will start coming in cartridge format again
Have you seen how many hand helds that are designed to play emulated retro games exist?
There's a huge marked for nostalgia tech. Hell Nintendo sold a Game&Watch console with 1 game for like 50$ and it sold like crazy.
@@tatecheddaryou already are.
Glad your cat was there to help you every step of the journey, this project would not have been possible without him
Jokes aside this is such a cool project. It's quite depressing to see physical media slowly dying so this is a breath of fresh air
You're the reason I took up PCB designing. I was always intimidated by multi-layered pcbs and I didn't want to take the time to learn it. Keep up the fun projects.
it is scary but just keep working on slightly trickier projects, you'll get there!
Bro is gonna make his whole console
I hope he does no one else did that on youtube except for one other person but they didnt make the literal switch card reader
@@ethanxillasaurus2572someone needs to make a retro switch.. id guy it
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hopefully not like a certain rapper that did their own """"""console""""""
YES! I'm not alone! I found a stash of mini disks and just holding them was so nice. They rattle a little when you shake them, there are satisfying snaps when you bring them out of their protective cases, and we haven't even started to talk about actually putting them in the player yet. Man... I miss the tactile feels. Physical copies of Switch games are a handy size and you could probably fit 50 switch cartridges on the same area as a snes cartridge but the feeling of popping them in the switch is non existent... the only way to feel remotely alive when handling a switch game is to lick it
minidiscs are the superlative audio storage format: easily recordable, like a cassette with better seek times, endlessly rewritable, (lossy) digital so the recording won't degrade nearly as quickly, and so brilliantly tactile, especially with a clamshell player (although the MZ-1 has its charm)
With the old DS cartridges, we could launch those things at eachother to get that feeling of life lol.
In a perfect world they would make SD, MicroSD and MacroSD, with MacroSD being about the size and shape of a credit card, perfect for albums, movies, and games.
I like this idea. I want to flip through a stack of movies on hu cards.
normal SSDs are about the size of a credit card
@@daveSoupy Thicker though.
@@daveSoupy later SSDs usually have a SATA nvme drive in it.
Maybe you could use actual credit cards for this, since they already have a chip on them these days, although I don't know if they have enough storage to be usable.
Abe is here! We are blessed this day!
thanks for all the love
For 10 years now ive been resisiting getting a 3d printer and this makes me want one so badly... What a fantastically cool project. Love it.
Just get a cheap one and you will probable get hooked and get something nice after you start creating things like me lmao I'm pretty broke so all I have a an ender 3 v2 but I got it to the point my prints come out perfect every time. One day I'll get a bamboo and be able to set and forget my prints but for now I'm happy.
Thank you so much!!
I can't express how much I enjoyed this video. As someone who also loves to feel like a failure and give up for a few months halfway through my projects, I loved the transparency there; but also, I remember in your obsolete game console video your talking about how you weren't really happy with the feel and look of the 3D printed plastic - I appreciated that then as an example of a time where something doesn't turn out *quite* like you envisioned, but you recognize that "done" is better than "perfect" - but I like that even more now that it seems like here, you've overcome that as well and found a way to finish your 3D printed projects in a way that you love. Absolutely awesome and genuinely inspiring, cheers.
you're truly the nostalgia youtuber.
This is actually so cool to see! I would love to have a home-media setup where all my movies/TV shows are on cartridges, it's a lot like a DVD collection but without the fragile CDs.
I really hope this idea gets expanded upon because I feel like there's an untapped market here!
I love your work. I really want to make my own custom console and computer for my kids to play games and learn about how they work. You inspire me!
Thank you! You can definitely do it!
1:22 That magic was smooth as hell.
I love how many gadgets you build. Looks like I've found a fun new channel!
thats what i thought too
Literal magic. This is WONDERFUL!!
This project is reminding me of the cartridge format for the PC Engine/TG-16, the HuCard/TurboChip.
Hell yeah man.
It's always awesome to hear when creators document their difficulties with a project that keeps kicking them in the nuts.
Validating and inspiring man, I love seeing how this project evolved. Congrats on the 100k!
Thank you so much I'm glad you enjoyed and thanks for watching!
Looks incredible dude! The story telling in this video was great, all the little issues that made all the previous iterations not quite work and seeing it all come together in the end was cathartic.
Thank you!! I’m glad you enjoyed!
This is an awesome project! I love the idea of physical cartridges in the modern age. Plus a great place to show off cool game/music art!
yes! glad you get it!
There's genuine advantages to it. Especially if you want to go back to physical media so you can actually own your stuff and then you realize that optical discs are still the most recent form of physical media and they suck ass LOL
I feel like a commercial version of this needs to be made using NAND flash technology similar to an SSD. I feel like that would be necessary for a modern game to run off of a cartridge like this.
Nintendo Switch uses cartridges and it's modern.
@@papasivir4241 Also a physical shelf can be a way easier experience than a digital one once your game collection gets above a certain size...
and these types of videos/projects are why I subbed.
I really want to make a MiSTer case with this type of "cartridge" slot.
Yea Abe one of my favourite reinventor. I love the mint comment and no issues.
I'm not gonna lie when you uploaded that video of your gamework I became absolutley OBSESSED with the idea of sd card based carts. I was really sad for a while because I thought it was just gonna be a one and done. I am so so so glad you carried it farther. I've been losing sleep over the idea of having all my media one one universal style of storage and loading media. This is the kind of project that just solves something that i think is universal... which is the desire to own the media you love but not wanting to have 35 different devices to play them all... and also not wanting to just store them all on a computer. I'm glad you've been just as obsessed about this project as your first video made me and I can't wait to see if you have any plans for it in the future!
Keep up the good work! Your videos are amazing!
The legend returns! That final result looks * chefs kiss * so good
Thanks Cheddar! Appreciate the continued support
Yes YES. I've also been toying with making some sort of cartridge for SD cards, not for games but for movies. It's so inspiring to see someone else having gone ahead with a similar project and come out with an amazing piece
They both look great, this was an awesome project! Great job!!
thanks so much man!
I LOVE this idea, I've been keeping my individual project's files on micro SD card to organize them and this would be so cool to be able to keep my files in a nice organized way! I would love to see when this projects files are available and be able to implement them as soon as possible!
glad to see you back you make great content man very engaging and interesting to watch! hope you continue making cool projects and sharing them here
thanks! I definitely will!
This would be an awesome idea for a home theater. I'm old enough to remember the tactile feel of clicking and clacking when opening a VHS, MD (mini disc), cassette tapes, and cartridges for games. Plus it would also be a nice collection on the shelf.
Honestly I want physical games to go back to carts like Nintendo still does. It's just better then using a disc.
Especially when "disk" is not an actual disk
If we could just keep flash storage costs down, then maybe we could achieve that. I'm actually kinda surprised Nintendo was able to pull that off with how volatile that market is. Probably because they never needed more than a few tens of Gigs on each chip. I wonder how things will go with Switch 2. If they still have cartridges then we might see costs go way up for certain games. That's the main reason why they moved to discs in the first place. Way cheaper and less volatile to just produce discs.
They seem to be designed to be used exactly once. Put into a device to upgrade its storage and never touched again until the host device dies or you upgrade the storage again.
I want it to go to full sized SD cards
Dig your style and the direct honest assessment of the project as we watch your struggles and successes!
I've been wanting to do something like this for a while. I had an idea for a wall-mounted arcade cabinet with an RFID reader that reads what game I'd like to play and immediately launches it. This makes it so each cartridge just has to have an RFID chip inside instead of any sort of custom PCB, making it a bit cheaper to create the cartridges. The cartridge can slot into the machine and emulate contact pads touching.
Check out Mister FPGA with TapTo. It does exactly what you're explaining here. Mister FPGA runs several arcade/computer/console "cores", and TapTo is an NFC reader that launches the game you want by using NFC cards.
Sounds like a good idea
This is exactly how the Yoto player works. It’s a music player for kids. The music is stored on an internal drive. You pick an album by inserting its card. Works super well and consistently.
@@johnmickey5017oh awesome! I’m going to have to check that thing out!
yeah, i had a similar thought but using an old floppy drive and using a qr code label that you place on old floppies that no longer work... that way you get to use the old format in the way you're used to, just instead of the magnetic encoding that's likely bad by now, it's just got a little camera that reads the qr code that is a file name and it loads that off an sd card.
This is one of the most incredible independent projects that I ever seen. Honestly, the result is so stunning and professional! You inspired me a lot! Thanks for the amazing content!
I'm only 1m41s into this video and this is sort of something I thought about a number of years back for my Grandmother. See she used to use VHS tapes to record the TV but when the TV went digital, she lost the ability to do that. I thought about a DVR but she was vision impaired and she'd have never been able to have used some kind of menu system. So I thought about trying to recreate something she was familiar with: A VHS recorder. I'd have a machine that she'd put a 'tape' in (some kind of SD card housing) and she'd select the channel - over here in the UK she was used to 5 channels although we have hundreds. So a nice 1-5 button selection for the channel that a DTV board would 'tune' to and then a nice record, play/pause and stop button. She'd load a 'tape' choose the channel to record and then press the record button. When the TV programme was done, she'd eject the 'tape' and put it to one side and then get another 'tape' to record something else. Sadly I didn't have the expertise to do something like that and she's since passed away, but it was something I thought the older generation of people might be into. Oh well!
Man I remember when you had only 12k subs, Congrats on 100k! You really deserved it
Time flies!!
Do you even realize what you have here? This could replace Blu-Ray disks as a physical home video format. That’s something you need to do, turn these cartridges into a prototype home video format. The largest 4K UHD disks are 100GB so a 256GB micro SD capable of 4K video should be enough.
Would love to back up old family videos on these cartridges. Eagerly awaiting the chance of the PCB and 3D printing files being released if they ever are
howd you do the jpeggification effect at 0:30?
Cartridges are great, but cats sneakily reaching out for wires? Priceless.
This is the definition of a passion project. That one thing you just can't let go and you gotta finish. Looks awesome! Only thing I'd love to see if a version with a more enclosed top so you could stack a couple of them together (think Apple II Disk Drives).
This has made my day. I love the project, the jokes are top notch and showing your process and mistakes which ultimately leads to your triumphant success is awesome. Well done and this project is dope as hell!
Thank you for such a kind comment!
Absolutely agree it's impossible to choose between the beige and the red. This project is really inspirational. Thank you for having the courage to share your setbacks!
Thanks so much I’m glad you feel inspired!!
This was a real joy to watch! What a fun ride through your last 2 years of projects!
Not gonna lie, the entire vibe of this thing is so rad I would love to buy some of these. They look so infinitely satisfying to use.
I love this. Kudos on continuing iterating until you reached gold! I love the red version, but both are gorgeous and totally look like something out of the late eighties/early nineties. Now I want to make a gameboy style retro handheld that takes these cartridges ;D
I rarely comment on TH-cam but I want to say thank you for making these videos
I appreciate how you showed what the process really looks like to do something creative.
I know that very technical videos have a much smaller audience but if you ever want to make longer videos showing more of the process of modeling, designing, and programming I will absolutely watch them.
Honestly keep going! Your ideas and execution are inspiring to say the least.
That’s so cool! Both the console and the Button! Congratulations, Abe!!
I keep looking at these high tech projects, including retro game consoles that retail for 50 bucks and still somehow deliver the goods. Then I look back at Atari, Genesis, etc. and it seems to me that the loose tolerances for carts and tough, wide contacts- exactly what you’ve emulated - were part of their success. Kudos for using the parts that work the best! That adds both improved functionality and a retro aesthetic
I just got a 3D printer recently and I think I have almost all the parts to try something like this myself. I guess I gotta try it now. Thanks for making such sharply edited and entertaining videos!
I love seeing this success story, great work Abe!!
Both the cartridge and the reader designs turned out gorgeous. Was a joy to watch your video about the project.
Thank you so much I’m glad you like them!
I've been working on a similar project but for music (being minidisc style), this is really awesome! The SD NAND is a neat approach, wish there was more of them available lol.
Thank you for not giving up. Sometimes I get in my own funk where feel like my work doesn't matter, but it absolutely does. No matter how small in the grand scheme of things it may seem.
By the way, the red one is my personal favorite. ❤
This is awesome! I'm glad someone finally made sd cards feel more like good 'ol cartridges, perfect mix between functional and aesthetic, I need this in my daily life!
Also, I love both versions, looks straight like an official nintendo product! Tho I really like the beige one, with that square led reminds me to my old eu snes!
New sub, keep it up with the amazing work here!
This project speaks to me on a spiritual level. LOVE how it turned out!
I’m glad you enjoyed it so much!!
w00, love seeing Steamworld anywhere. What a great project! I love the vibe you've got going with the cartridges from beginning to end
I've literally been thinking about doing this for years. Good to know someone is pushing through!
Found about the floppy8 project from HN, and now subscribed. The projects on this channel are amazing.
Thanks for the sub!
YES! I have been wanting to make my own version of the Game Boy for the longest time using modern day components while keeping that old school feel, and this is perfect for that! While I haven't made progress past the planning stage at the moment, I have high hops for the future!
This is so RAD! Ever since I saw your Floppy8 demo I've been thinking about making my own. Thanks for sharing your process!
This is amazing! It looks great, and, you're right, it feels so much better than any SD card ❤
I’m glad this vid hit my feed, the build was awesome to watch come together
Thank you!! I'm glad you enjoyed it!
This is absolutely delightful! I love this idea so much! Kinda sad the drive that ejected with a servo didn't really work out but still, I think what you made here is really cool. :)
Happy to see the sort of end result of the little cartridges! I love the creative ideas you come up with for stuff like this!
What an awesome project!!
Love it.
Thank you so much for watching!
I’m a fan. It’s just a choice preference between physical media and digital media. If I make something or buy something, I’d rather have a physical copy then just the code to go online.
Your vids and shorts are some of my favourite ways to find random bits about different hardware. Awesome all around. Glad you're happy with your channel growth, you deserve it!
Thanks so much I’m glad you find them interesting!
Congrats on the play button and finishing a project! You've inspired me to make things and I look forward to what you do in the future.
Your video editing is seamless
Thank you!! I’m always practicing to try to get stuff smoother!
Cant express enough how much I want this myself! So freekin cool, love it!!!
Nice work! I love the retro style of this project. Old cartridge readers were really cool. Well done!
It's fascinating to see the long history of the project. Glad yiy kept iterating on it
It's so funny, I've had effectively this exact idea for over a year now and then youtube recommends me this video! Really cool stuff, I like the red one best personally
I'm glad you took a break for yourself, and I'm really glad you came back to share your experiences :)
Dude. Your builds are amazing, and you deserve the accolades for your success. I have surface-level understanding of any of what you talked about, but you explained out in a way that made computer hardware engineering not seem so daunting of a hobby to attempt one day. Congrats dude 👏🏽
I really appreciate the kind words (and I saw your other comment as well so thanks there too!) Appreciate you watching
The beige one is absolutely gorgeous. Love how you put this project together.
yay new video :))
Every stage of this looked so good, even the ones which didn't make it far. Very cool to see all the iterations.
Those look beautiful! makes me wanna get into hardware stuff. Your videos are an inspiration!
Somehow this Video gave me a comfy nostalgic feeling while actually learning something
i love these so much omg.
I think that releasing both the files and a DIY kit would be awesome
such a charming project, it looks insanely polished for a 3d print
The thought process and work you put into this is amazing.
Love the beige drive for nostalgia reasons.
Dunno tho if I could pull it off, I actually have a couple of spare 3.5" floppy drives I'd love to use in some capacity but nothing so far came out of it.
Thanks for the tips with giving 3D prints a better look too, your final result is stunning to look at.
As someone who loves the old style physical media, this project really caught my eye. The end result is absolutely wonderful!
If these things were sold... I would literally buy it! I love it! Amazing work.
when he posts i know im going to see a great video
Thanks for watching every time!
@@abetoday ofc i find your video super entertaining.
I remember when abe had like 40k subs when i started to watch him, he definitely deserved this. Happy 100k
Thank you for supporting for so long! Appreciate you.
Abe this is so awesome! Think you really have something here. Very awesome
In the end everything seems to have turned out great! Thanks for keeping with this project and posting these videos for us :D
I've been wanting to make a project like this for such a long time! It's really cool to see someone else take on the project for themselves and do it justice. I am seriously impressed by the quality of this project, but I'd love to see a series of machines that will play three different formats; music (like a walkman), movies and video games. You could even theme the cartridges around the individual media formats. For example, a music cart would be square (for record or cd boxart), and the movies and games would be rectangular (like movie posters or game boxart), but they could all use the same basic mechanism. The world needs a new solid state based media format for collection and archival purposes.
I remember you! You were posting about your Pico-8 console on the subreddit a few years back! Way to finish the project brother! You just got a new sub!
Haha! Yes! Time flies!
Man, this stuff is just awesome! Makes me think of an idea I had years ago to make my own custom game console using an eeprom to make cartridges (it would be simple things like Pong and maybe old Atari games. Just something simple as a fun project.) Maybe I'll get back to that now that 3D printing makes some of this easier to customize! I enjoy the heck out of your videos!
Thanks for the kind words and absolutely you should! It’s a lot of fun!
Very nice, the 3D printer really speeds tinkering like this up. It makes me want one more and more the times I see someone like you make something cool like this.
That being said, I think the size of regular SD cards are just right for something normal and yet not microscopic like the appropriately named MicroSDs.
love all your video and projects
thank you!!
I love this!!! Such a cool take on physical media and looks like it feels so good to hold and use!
Just watched 35 seconds of the video and I had to stop and comment " I LOVE THIS! "
Just finished the video and I subscribed. Great work
Thanks for watching and subscribing!!