8-bit game console with wireless motion controller
posted Mar 26th 2010 1:00pm by Mike Szczysfiled under: classic hacks

[Luis Cruz] built a gaming console with motion control. The circuit above connects via composite video to a television and communicates with a wireless controller. The controller is on a smaller breadboard which includes an accelerometer for the input and the infrared circuitry necessary for wireless data transmission back to the home system. Take a look at the first game he developed for it in the video after the break. There’s some details available (ie: he’s using ATmega168 and ATmega328 chips) but we’ve asked him to post code and schematics which he is currently cleaning up for mass consumption.
Ah, the 8-bit sound in that game takes us back to the glory days of Atari and Intellivision.






Very cool! Now this is Hack-a-day worthy.