In addition, built an entire emulator that resembles his actual breadboard design, which can be programmed and used via browser, giving WebAssembly a whole new meaning. But what stands out most is that the breadboard build is really only half of the story. uses different intensities to distinguish between the snake and its food which is kind of a dark pixel in the demo shown after the break. But there are other tricks at work as well. Making the most of tiny resolution is impressive - it’s a difficult constraint for the game field. took the concept and expanded upon it, even adding a 16×2 LCD that let’s you play Snake by moving a single pixel on the character display! If building a homebrew computer on a breadboard is your thing, you’re most certainly familiar with, whose design of using nothing but logic gates has served as inspiration for many replicas over the years. Considering this was his junior year high school project, this is certainly an impressive and nice mash-up of those two projects.Ĭontinue reading “A Breath Of Fresh Air For Some Arcade Classics” → Posted in Games, Raspberry Pi Tagged altoids, arcade games, oled, Raspberry Pi Pico, rp2040, snake game You may have felt this strange sense of familiarity when you read the project’s name, and indeed, the mintyPi gaming console was a major inspiration for here, as was the Pico Snake project.
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All design files along with the MicroPython code of the games can be found on the project’s GitHub page. A set of 3d-printed parts pack the board along with a matching battery and a button panel neatly into the tin itself, while a size-appropriate SSH1106 OLED goes into the lid.
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Now, if that’s already true for the regular sized box, we can be doubly excited for anything crammed into their Smalls variety ones, which is what decided to use as housing for his mintyPico, a tiny gaming console running homebrew versions of Snake, Breakout, Pong, and a few more.Īs the “Pico” might have already given away, the project is built around a Raspberry Pi Pico board, and being intended as portable device, went with a version that also houses LiPo battery charging circuitry. It’s said that good things come in small packages, which is hard to deny when we look at all the nifty projects out there that were built into an Altoids tin.