In 1998, Nintendo's Game Boy received an unlikely peripheral. The Game Boy Camera had a 128 x 128 pixel CMOS sensor and could capture images at up to 128 x 112 pixels, using the Game Boy's four-colour palette. That limited palette forced the device to use dithering, an intentional form of noise that mixes palettes using a pattern. It seems that Jonothan Hunt was keen to bring dithering back in the form of DITHRPIX and chose Badger 2350 from our Badgeware range, as the platform on which to resurrect it.
It's been a really fun few days taking photos with the DITHRPIX app I made for the @pimoroni.com Badger! Just released the first updates github.com/jonothanhunt... including better sleep management, tutorial on boot and some other speed and usability improvements!
— Jonothan (@jonothan.dev) 11 September 2026 at 23:14
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The camera, a PTC06 TTL serial JPEG camera, captures images at 320 x 240 pixels, and with 1MB of storage available there is space for 60 dithered images. This is almost double what the Game Boy Camera provided. Connecting the camera to Badger 2350 is via the Qw/ST connector and some light soldering on the camera itself. Images are displayed on Badger's 2.7 inch, 264 x 176 pixel display, with a "live preview" providing the means to line up your shot.
Images captured with DITHRPIX Image Credit: Jonothan Hunt
Taking a picture is a simple matter of composing the shot, and pressing B. The other buttons are used to cycle tones, dither patterns, view a gallery of images, and to refresh the preview to line up the next shot.
Jonothan's translucent case for DITHPIX Image Credit: Jonothan Hunt
Being modeled around a late 1990s product, the translucent case to contain the project was designed in Blender and 3D printed on a Bambu Labs A1 Mini.
Jonothan has detailed the entire project on his blog, and via GitHub which also has a full Bill of Materials and instructions on how to make your own DITHRPIX.
Badgeware Badger 2350
A smart interactive badge with four-level greyscale 2.7" E-Paper display, powered by Raspberry Pi RP2350.
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