This is a bit reminiscent of the missing DC entry, so consider it a bonus hack. [Eric] sent in his latest project, an AVR game console. It uses a pair of ATMega168v micro-controllers, a nokia 3110 LCD, and an eeprom to store a selection of games. The interface above the console is the serial loader/charger. No word on the game source, but judging from his site, maybe he’s writing them all on his own.
FWIW, you got the info about the LCD wrong. He used a 3310 LCD not a 3110 (which would be colour).
Posted at 6:56 am on Mar 4th, 2007 by Rob83
Sorry – I assumed that the 3110 was a sub model of the 3100 which *is* colour.
Posted at 7:04 am on Mar 4th, 2007 by Rob83
looked like it was going to be stupid, but after seing the graphics and snappy frame rate, Im very impresed
Posted at 2:24 pm on Mar 4th, 2007 by Wolf
I wish he’d have kept the interface built in as in the prototype, and not moved it to an external board. I would also like to see some flash memory card slot added on in a later version to store games on. And, one last suggestion: put in a bigger screen, such as from an old palm. keep the tough screen bit, and that would be a sweet controlling method.
Posted at 7:40 pm on Mar 4th, 2007 by iamdigitalman
Thanks for the comments. As to iamdigital, I never really meant for this to be anything more than a simple little device (a learning experience), but maybe my next project… And the new form of it is far more convenient than the prototype ever was, just in it’s size and being able to carry it around with me.
so it was just a POC? well, I guess you could just take my comments as a suggestion for a future revision. One thing, if you were to add onboard charging/syncing, perhaps you could pull a RAZR and pull power and data from a single mini-b USB jack. That would be a nice addition. then you could skip the extra circuit board.
Posted at 10:53 pm on Mar 5th, 2007 by iamdigitalman
:)
Posted at 12:39 am on Mar 6th, 2007 by dylan willemsa
That is a great project! :)
I was thinking of doing the same thing. I’m new to programming the mega16. What advice can you give me as I try to learn to do a project like this? Ofcourse mine will be different. I’ve looked at OLED 3.5″ color screen, but I have no idea about loading .bmp’s or jpg’s to the screen. I also wanted to use a midi data or mp3 data to a speaker, but have no experience at that either.
Any info you could give would be great!
Posted at 8:11 pm on May 3rd, 2007 by cornelius
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Good graphics then :D
First post :D
Posted at 5:20 am on Mar 4th, 2007 by kernel_geek