Modder Crafts Working Transparent Game Boy Color Circuit Board with Stunning Design

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Okay, so there’s this handheld console wizard, Natalie—who, by the way, goes by @natalie_thenerd. She did this crazy thing with a Game Boy Color. You probably wouldn’t believe it if I just told you. Anyway, she crafted a motherboard for it, but not just any old motherboard—a completely transparent one. Like, seriously, you can see all the copper circuit squiggles as clear as day. Not something you see every day, right? So, according to what she posted on X (or whatever it’s called now instead of Twitter), she made all these crazy schematics and removed this ground zone thingy. Probably important for modern gadgets, but Natalie says for a simple Game Boy, meh, who cares?

And get this, although she reverse-engineered the whole Game Boy Color itself (big brain energy right there), she did farm out the creation of this clear PCB to some outside company. They whipped it up using stuff that’s kinda like acrylic. It can melt at a measly 200 degrees Celsius. Meaning, she better not mess up while soldering those chips on, else… yeah, let’s not even go there.

Most of the Game Boy Color is, like, ghost-like with its transparency. From the copper bits to the screen and even this little daughter board thing. Natalie didn’t stop there; she snatched up a cartridge reader from some Chinese knock-off too! And it’s—you guessed it—semi-transparent! The casing, the keys, the whole shebang is see-through. Talk about an invisible wonder.

But here’s where the sad trumpet plays: you can’t buy this slick see-through Game Boy. It’s like some artsy project she whipped up for fun. Probably wouldn’t survive a gaming rage-fit anyway since the PCB is so, you know, fragile and bendy.

A bunch of folks (always with the ideas) were like, “Why not swap the copper traces with silver?” or “Slap some backlighting to amp up the coolness!” With Natalie running the Modded Gameboy Club and hanging out with those creativity monsters, who knows, maybe someone’ll make that happen.

And others, as always, began dreaming up similar transparent looks for gadgets—like, what if the Nothing Phone 2 got this treatment? I mean, clear tech is totally in vogue now with those see-through power banks and SSD casings, but until those crystal-like PCBs get tougher and cheaper, don’t hold your breath for mainstream invasion.

Either way, hats off to Natalie for pulling off this Game Boy magic. Just goes to show why modding is the absolute best—turning tech into pure art. We need more of this energy in the world, don’t we?