Hackvision is build-your-own retro game
posted Oct 24th 2010 10:00am by Mike Szczysfiled under: arduino hacks, video hacks
If you wanted to try your hand at programming some retro games Hackvision can jump-start the process. It is an Arduino-based game console in a controller format. You get four directional buttons and one function button. It has two RCA jacks for mono audio, and black and white video.
We’re happy to find that there’s information about game development that will help you follow along with the Space Invaders and Pong examples. The system uses the Arduino TVout library for video, which is robust and fairly easy to interact with. But once you see the game play in the video after the break it’ll be hard to resist building one of these. Don’t forget, this is Arduino based. If you already have an Arduino that uses an ATmega328 you just need to build the audio, video, and button circuits.
[Thanks Franz]
Getting this to work on arduino takes tweeking an h file. If you have 2 resistors and an arduino you can get hackivision running on your arduino.
Check out my site for details.
http://www.flakelabs.com/index.php/2010/10/hackvision-games-on-arduino/