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Written by John_Newall on 2025-01-08 at 23:55

A few photos of the finished attiny85 game console hardware and a second attempt at bodge wiring (see previous post for entertainingly bad 1st try). Considering the chip is 5mm wide, and it is all working, I'm feeling like I did good. #electronics #attiny85

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Written by John_Newall on 2025-01-06 at 01:11

Attiny85 game console hardware troubleshooting - Unbelievably, it does work. Macro photo for your entertainment and to document the ridiculous troubleshooting journey I took. #hardware #attiny85 #electronics

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Written by John_Newall on 2024-11-13 at 04:10

Breadboard prototype of my Attiny85 game console is finally complete! Demo game is running smoothly so onto hardware design ...right after I play 1 more game of Snake 🐍 #electronics #gamedev #attiny85

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Written by John_Newall on 2024-10-04 at 06:39

Finally wrote up a summary of this project. Game and hardware files are all there too for those daring enough to gaze upon the madness I created. #electronics #arduino #gamedev #kicad

...do links work in Mastodon?:

https://github.com/j0ono0/handheld_game_console_prototype_01

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Written by John_Newall on 2024-09-26 at 02:21

Read to go make new friends at my local game dev meetup. #gamedev #arduino #electronics #hardware

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Written by John_Newall on 2024-09-23 at 06:05

Hardware story has a happy ending. Board assembled and working great. Thanks to everyone who followed along. X2 thanks to commenters with help and encouragement.

[#]electronics #hardware #kicad #gamedev

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Written by John_Newall on 2024-09-23 at 02:38

Excited but nervous. PBCs have arrived. Time to see if my first ever PCB design works. Did I mention feeling nervous? #electronics #kicad #gamedev

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Written by John_Newall on 2024-09-19 at 06:49

Back to game graphics whilst waiting for PCB delivery. Wondering if I can learn enough Blender to help render some pixel art background graphics? Initial try looks promising! #pixelart #blender #gamedev

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Written by John_Newall on 2024-09-16 at 03:52

Sneaky self portrait whilst I test all the parts fit on a printout. #electronics

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Written by John_Newall on 2024-09-11 at 07:08

After a day of bug chasing I've rewired everything and made some seemingly trivial code changes and now it is fixed ...possibly? #electronics #arduino

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Written by John_Newall on 2024-09-04 at 01:04

Needs more wires so I tried out multiplexed buttons. Pondering if I try to design a PCB or use protoboard. #electronics #arduino

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Written by John_Newall on 2024-09-02 at 06:36

Fully loaded bread board. Touch screen and SD card reader operational. Figured I should implement all the available hardware features if I'm going to migrate it to protoboard. #arduino #electronics #gamedev #teensy4

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Written by John_Newall on 2024-08-30 at 04:32

Adding sprite animation speeds turned out to be only X2 lines of code amendments! Box binary counter to celebrate 🎉

[#]gamedev #pixelart

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Written by John_Newall on 2024-08-29 at 03:13

Code somewhat less spaghetti like. And animated sprites are go.

[#]gamedev #arduino #pixelart

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Written by John_Newall on 2024-08-27 at 02:06

Every coding project I grow in an organic way seems to eventually gain some circular references, and tightly coupled functions, that eventually block forward progress. So that's where I am now. Need to pause progress for a project wide review and tidy up. #gamedev

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Written by John_Newall on 2024-08-22 at 04:53

Updating sprites has cascaded into multiple tasks. Currently writing python scripts to process sprite-sheets into usable arrays for my Arduino code. Going pretty smoothly, only put curly brackets around one function ...so far. #arduino #python #gamedev

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Written by John_Newall on 2024-08-21 at 02:10

Upgrading my character sprites to match the nicer looking terrain. The spin-off is needing a code rewrite to cater for more sprites #gamedev #arduino #pixelart

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Written by John_Newall on 2024-08-16 at 02:29

I feel like I've hit a milestone! I have a basic playable game along with the ability to add more levels and polish up the visuals. Running on a Teensy4 microcontroller with Arduino. Sorry about the terrible video quality. #gamedev #arduino

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Written by John_Newall on 2024-08-14 at 02:46

I want to have different coloured terrain tiles (but the same terrain) so attempting to index colours on my tiles and swap them with a look-up-table to save space. Apart from being broken, it's pretty much done. #gamedev #arduino

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Written by John_Newall on 2024-08-12 at 02:03

Not the picture I was hoping to share but this was going to happen as some point. The dilemma now, increase hardware or reduce software? #electronics #gamedev #arduino

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