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Hi all,
Here's my last project: the BMO BOY!

(http://i.imgur.com/ZvULUr4l.jpg)

I love Adventure Time and this is my tribute to BMO, the robot/friend/home console character :)
http://adventuretime.wikia.com/wiki/BMO (http://adventuretime.wikia.com/wiki/BMO)

BMO naturally resembles a Game Boy and I have been thinking about this project for a long time; to be fair, I have found at least other 2 people have done the same (but I like mine better! xD).

It's essentially a custom painted (and slightly modded) Game Boy (model DMG-01).

Parts used:

• Original case, painted with a spray can (custom colour);
  
• Hand made screen cover (out of a 1.2mm board of semi-matte polyester);
  
• ASM Retro's Screen cover adhesive;
  
• Kitsch-bent's buttons (A, B, Start & Select, DPad);
  
• Hand made "fake buttons" (triangle and cartridge eject);
  
• ASM Retro's Density Backlight (white);
  
• Thursday customs' HEX DMG v1.3 display inverter.

Work log here:
https://desperatenerd.wordpress.com/2015/02/20/bmo-boy/ (https://desperatenerd.wordpress.com/2015/02/20/bmo-boy/)

Extra features:

• Custom ROM programmed by yours truly, which displays BMO's cute face;
  
• Box art (to be printed and assembled).

I'm not 100% happy about the screen cover adhesive, and also since I had to manually redo some details on the BMO caption on the sides, the letters' edges aren't very sharp.
Anyway here are more photos :)

(http://i.imgur.com/h4mVRvil.jpg)

(http://i.imgur.com/wvxS9zjl.jpg)

(http://i.imgur.com/TjmChkJl.jpg)

(http://i.imgur.com/6oSIquYl.jpg)

(http://i.imgur.com/e0hIywbl.jpg)

(http://i.imgur.com/vjk1mEWl.jpg)

(http://i.imgur.com/EzcWcpwl.jpg)

(http://i.imgur.com/dyxIaVcl.jpg)

(http://i.imgur.com/YaZ7Qydl.jpg)

(http://i.imgur.com/Y1d6ig5l.jpg)

(http://i.imgur.com/3sFxLCwl.jpg)

(http://i.imgur.com/SpY3r0Ul.jpg)



"Lights off"

(http://i.imgur.com/jG7NBbOl.jpg)

(http://i.imgur.com/kIBzTrhl.jpg)

(http://i.imgur.com/SHMIPcll.jpg)

(http://i.imgur.com/tkcMzHll.jpg)


BOX ART

Original box scan

(http://i.imgur.com/Qm18ghYl.jpg)

My box art
(http://i.imgur.com/KNremS9l.jpg)

That is seriously cool.  I'm not an Adventure Time fan, but of the three eps I've seen, one of them had BMO in it.  So I definitely appreciate the reference.  =D