Wanna put your creativity to good use? Ubisoft has got the perfect challenge for you. In line with the upcoming release of Prince of Persia (PS3, Xbox 360, and DS), the publishing company has teamed up with deviantART to have its community face off in creating original art inspired by the game. Details and more after the jump.

No, you aren't seeing things. That really is a gigantic DS modded to enormous proportions. Comcast user "olimar" shows what he did with the use of two tablet PC screens, an FPGA (Field-Programmable Gate Array) logic chip to translate the hardware, a Nintendo DS, and some other parts he had "lying around" to create the Jumbotron DS.0

The two screens simulate the double screen of the Nintendo DS while the pen input is taken care by the FPGA and sent back to the DS. It can also take screenshots via a PC serial port. He also noted the parts he used as well as the approximate cost of each:

• Gateway M275 screens (14" 1024x768): $100*2
• LVDS modules (Advantech PCM-205): $60*2
• Digilent S3BOARD + headers: $130
• Nintendo DS: $100
• Wacom pen: $30

With the total running more or less a hefty US$ 600, eager buyers will have to curb their fantasies of owning their own overblown DS because olimar claimed that he wasn't interested in producing the Jumbotron DS or even selling the one he made unless it was at cost. He might be surprised how many people may be interested though if he ever considered putting it up on ebay.

Either way, it surely is an ingenious display of the possibilities you can push a hardware's capabilities to its limit.

The full article awaits after the jump!