### DESCRIPTION

Atari Lynx is a handheld colour console released in 1989. The games were sold as game carts. This design is a game cart with a 512k flash and an optional read/write eeprom from 128 bytes to 64k.

The PCB design also needs a cover. The game cart needs to be 57mm wide and 2.5mm thick,

### TECHNICAL DETAILS / COMPONENTS

The chip on this cart is a 512k flash memory SST39SF040-70-4C-WHE and the eeprom I have been using for saving hi-scores is 93C46C-I/ST. The voltage of a Lynx is 5V. The current pcb is 0.8mm and not 0.6mm anymore.

### LEARN / TOPIC / BUILD INSTRUCTIONS

It is fairly easy to 3D print covers for the cart. Last year I released an interactive novel called "Always winter, never Christmas". It was released for free to be run on emulators and developers carts. But for the large community of retro enthusiasts I also created a small run of real Lynx carts based on this pcbway design. Actually the nice people at pcbway also soldered the chips on the board for a decent cost. All boards worked. So they do a good job.

This year I relesed a new game at eJagfest in Germany. The game is based on this same hardware but now I wanted to make the cart of bamboo. The reason was that plastic is bad for our planet so I decided to avoid plastics completely. No plastics in the cart, no tape or glue on the box, no shrinkwrapped elements.

The game itself is a hectic car chase where you have to save the world by disarming a bomb. There is beautiful girls giving you hints, double agents lying, hectic shooting. Everything you would expect from secret agent movies.

Here is the first attempt for using bamboo. The final, shipped carts are more polished.