Try taking the cartridge apart and look for damage.

I tried to do the thing where you heat up a pen and make a tool for opening these carts, but that didn't work. So I guess I'll just have to get an actual bit to open this. It'll be a while
Ok I got the pen thing to work and the PCB looks fine. I don't see any broken pins or soldering...so I don't really know what to do now.

--- OS Version 0.0.4.0 ---

-Added partial date support (no leap years, no DST)
-Added date setting capability

--- OS Version 0.0.4.1 ---

-Fixed AM/PM displaying at wrong times
-Added leap year support

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Here's an updated presentation of the device:

Here's the device itself.


Here's the main menu.




Here's the clock. (It's not set yet!)


Here's the stopwatch. It's really simple. Scroll starts/stops, and Accept resets.



App support isn't implemented yet, so I can't show any pictures of that!

Here's the settings menu. All of the options actually work here!



Here's how to set the time. Scroll changes the number, and Accept continues to next field.



Here's how to set the date. The controls are the same as setting the time.




The System Info screen only shows version number. When app support is implemented, it will show free memory.

Hmm upon closer inspection it's probably best if I re-wrote this thing some day

Don't worry about it. Pickaxe is going to be similar to Brainfuck anyways.

(or maybe i should make it only programmable in spyrodecimal )

So I did a lot of work today.
Here's the completely new device.



The device has a 16 character, 2 line LCD display and is powered by my Arduino Uno.
It has 3 buttons: Scroll (B1), Accept (B2), and Exit (B3).

Let's look at the main menu, which has 5 options:




Here's the clock. Pretty simple:


Here's how to set the clock. (The interface could use a bit of work.) B1 scrolls through the numbers and B2 saves.



Now on to the stopwatch. It's really simple. B1 starts/stops and B2 resets. Look at that screen ghosting!



The ability to run apps hasn't been programmed yet. It'll be a while.


The settings menu has two options: set time and date. Date hasn't been programmed yet.


The system info screen shows only the OS version right now. When apps are programmed, it will probably show free memory.


So yeah. This is actually a thing again.

Some more info bits:

-I'm not going to program the ability to write programs on the device. At least, I don't think. I'll still be making the Pickaxe programming language though.

-The clock is done entirely through software. Whenever the clock is opened, it checks how many milliseconds the Arduino has been turned on for. It then compares that to the value it saved from the last time it ran, and advances the clock by that amount. The clock is also running in the background (technically, it isn't running in the background but whatever) whenever the main menu and most other screens are open.

Have any questions/feedback/etc.? Please reply!

Share with us what you got and what you gave! (Christmas hasn't happened yet for me, as I'm in the US.)

So I've been trying to make music the past couple weeks.

Here are my two best (and most recent) attempts. All of my other attempts are crap.

Attempt 1: (Not that good) https://soundcloud.com/frostion/practice-session-1

Attempt 2: (A bit better) https://soundcloud.com/frostion/practice-session-2-super-special-auxy-update-edition

I fixed the problem. It turns out that some of the RAM in the computer was bad. I took out the bad RAM and everything works fine now.