[sdiy] Anyone hack a Nintendo Virtual Boy display mechanism?

[anthony]

Hello,

I'm mailing this beifre I google the idea, because I value the input from 
this group and whatever hits I get might distract me from sounding the idea 
off of you guys (& gals).

I had an old Virtual Boy that I decided to take apart. I didn't have the 
custom Nistendo driver head, so I just cut away at the ABS plastic until I 
got it all away. As far as other parts go it was a bust (well the audio amp 
was kind of cool), but the really cool part was the 3D display mechanism 
which comprised of two mirrors attached to 2 galvanometers which reflect 
light from a linear LED array which scans the images in piecemeal fashion as 
the mirrors swing back and forth.

I am not interested in recreating a 3D video display for general use outside 
of it just being a gameboy (which would be cool) but I wanted to use the 
galvanometers & mirrors to respond to audio to make a light show from 
whatever audio is running through it. I could start from scratch but I 
wonder if anyone has divined the workings of the controller chips, many of 
which look totally custom.

I know Nintendo is very close about its technology so probably nobody's got 
very far, but then again I could be wrong.

I wonder if I could use the galvanometers in conjuction with a spinning 
mirror I got from a big HP laser printer and a laser pointer laser for the 
visible laser (wish they had those in blue...)


The Waltons,
Anthony