Custom Retro Hardware Is a Whole New World with AI for Hardware Design
pvncher · x · 2026-10-01
A developer argues custom retro hardware is an underrated space, with AI opening a new world for hardware design. The linked context provides concrete resources: the Game Boy PCB is open source, and Circuit World hosts open hardware like esp-box-emu — a 73×76mm, 70-part ESP32-S3 board running Doom, Dark Forces, NES, GameBoy, Sega and MSX emulators under an MIT license, with downloadable design files.
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