Zac Builds wanted a Game Boy Color that still looked like the 1998 handheld and behaved like something you would actually carry in 2026. His latest project walks through that job on a working donor board, the one part he treats as non-negotiable. Almost everything else can come from current reproduction kits, so a battered shell and a tired screen do not end the project.
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Retail assets that reached Android Headlines yesterday put a name and a face on a tracker Google has been circling for months. Fitbit Edge is the label on the listings, and the hardware reads as the next step after the Charge line, which last saw a full update in 2023.
Zachary Tong had never designed a chip. He had never programmed an FPGA either, and he will tell you his electrical skills were rough. With about a month left before the first wafer.space deadline, he still decided to write a microprocessor, send the file to a real foundry, and wait to see if silicon came back alive.
Sellers in Aliexpress spent the past year listing a handset called the Gionee D999, and the first glance does most of the selling. Long, narrow, black, and topped with a stubby antenna, it reads as a direct copy of the brick phones that sat on car seats in the early nineties. Open the box and the story changes. Behind the rubber keys and a slide of thin plastic sits a full Android phone, sold for about a hundred dollars and aimed at anyone who wants WhatsApp on a device an older relative can still hold without squinting.
