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Making a trading Gameboy: A pocket exchange and algo trading platform


An exchange and algo trading station in your pocket!

I won't go into too much detail here, but I bought a Prusa Mini +, some calipers, and after some measurements, a lot of trial and error, and a lousy soldering job, I ended up with this. While this would have been a no-go due to the annoying overhead of copying the code across many times over, I found that using a small script helped a lot and rendered this step painless. The state of tooling is such that one can very easily design a part (PCB or other physical object) to solve real world problems with infinitely more satisfaction than just buying something off-the-shelf.

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