Everyone’s favorite open source game console,
the Uzebox (also cloned as
the Fuzebox), just got a new feature hacked into it –
a video player. At reduced quality (8-bit color), the Uzebox was able to play ‘The Matrix’ off an SD card @ 30fps plus the audio @15kHz. That’s a pretty impressive feat when one considers it is running on
4096 bytes of RAM. The video file had to first be converted into a series of pictures through a Photoshop macro in order to be playable. A Uzebox can be built with little more than a few resistors in addition to an
overclocked ATmega644P, and
AD725 (which has been skirted
in certain incarnations).
