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Tiny Screen is a small OLED display with a resolution of 96 x 64 pixels and a colour depth of 16bits which gives you 65,536 different colours. The display measures just 0.96″ diagonally which I guess makes sense as to why they call it tiny! The tiny screen is made by the same people that …
Tiny Screen: A color display the size of your thumb! Read More »
I stumbled upon another microcontroller based handheld video game device tonight while checking out the Arduino contest over at instructables.com The MAGPI was made by instructables user zippy314 and his son. It uses minimal hardware but the results are great, the first game in their youtube video reminds me of a lunar lander / asteroids …
MAGPI – The Micro Arduino Gaming Platform Interface Read More »
Every now and again I like to do a search on Kickstarter for keywords like Arduino or Microcontroller, just to see what comes up. Today I found a really cool looking project that is compatible with Arduino and has an inbuilt OLED screen. You could make your own little games on the device, or perhaps …
MicroView: Chip-sized Arduino with built-in OLED Display! (Kickstarter) Read More »
I have made a whole heap of electronics and programming tutorials over the years and I thought it was about time that I let you guys know of a sure fire way to smash your smartphone’s glass digitiser. It’s quite simple really, when you’re working with some wood, nails and a hammer – be sure …
Now this is a project that I can get excited about! Kevin from over at bateske.com has come up with the coolest credit card sized gaming device I have ever seen! I thought my credit card sized 64 Pixel LED game system was cool. The Arduboy is not only the same length and width as a …
Arduboy – The Credit Card Sized Video Game System. Read More »
I am working on another new project (surprise, surprise…) where I am measuring current of different devices and sending it to an LED matrix. I am using a PIC18F13K50 microcontroller for the job and coding in Swordfish Basic. I was in the initial stages of testing the led matrix display and I ran some simple …
My 5 and 4 year old boys very much enjoy playing games from my retro video game collection with Super Mario Bros being their favourite. So I did a little searching on the internet for a Super Mario Bros level editor and well, I found one. It is called Super Mario Bros. Game Builder and …
I have been contacted by a couple of people who have made their own version of Retroball which is great to see! Firstly, cnribbens from the forum posted some details of his retroball build. It started out as a Super Pong Table (which was my original version of Retroball) this version required that you make …
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