Cartridge support/eject mechanism

[Snow_Cat]

Why share the idea?

The recent 'InstaLoad' patent has reminded me to 'Publish or die.'

Like many other 'original ideas' that have captured public intrest I have had first but never published. And I promised myself that I would never be edit like Issac Newton and stake a claim after someone else has gotten excited about it since it is my own fault for never sharing it when it was my idea.

If an idea is not shared then it never happened.

Why this idea?
The flat, smooth sided carts of the Intellivision are difficult to extract and this would make extracting them easier without greatly affecting the asthetics of the system or damaging the cartridges. Stabalising the cart is a side-effect of having the arms raise up around the cart.

In a portable system where for reasons of volume or asthetics having a permanent pocket is undesireable this may solve the problem of securing the cart (instead of extracting it) without significantly affecting the asthetics or volume of the system.

Also, I refer to this as the point intime where (18) years after having the idea I am making it mine for everyone to use.

Spoiler:

A system for the stabilization and extraction of cartridges. by Darren Lue Choy is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License

Also, I am calling dibbs on pasting a leticular lens to a CRT using vertical interlacing for stereo image seperation / headset free 3-d.

edit: language

[Rekarp]

you can probably use two really cheap servos to do it.

[themadhacker]

Sort of reminds me of 8 track players. they have this metal arm that has a small roller on the end which locks the cartridge in place while playing.

[gamax92]

I thought this was for the nintendo 64

EDIT: You could just change the design a little but why not springs to prop the cart up.
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The '+' would be a spring
The '||||' would be the connector.

[jdmlight]

I thought this was for the nintendo 64

It should work for any cartridge-based system really, you would just have to adjust how big/small it is based on the size of the cartridge.

Neat idea! Although I can imagine funny Youtube videos of prototypes that accidentally launched the cartridge across the room.

[gamax92]

You could just change the design a little but why not springs to prop the cart up.
. ____ .
|-------|
|_____|
+||||+

The '+' would be a spring
The '||||' would be the connector.