He describes his code as the “glue” that mashes these projects together, but we think he’s being somewhat modest there. Like many open source projects, says his code is built upon the existing work of a number of other programmers, which let him get up and running much faster than if he had to start from scratch. FPGA hacking is a fascinating subject with a lot of activity right now, and since you can get these Pano Logic boxes on eBay for less than $10 USD in some cases, now is as good a time as ever to get your feet wet.
#PAC MAN PINKY REAL BODY SIMULATOR#
Using open source tools and the wealth of information that’s available was able to get a Pac-Man simulator up and running over his holiday break, and he tells us his life may never be the same again. Īfter seeing a few posts about the Pano Logic devices and general FPGA hacking, he decided to grab a few on eBay and dive in. Shame for Pano Logic and their staff, but good news for hackers like. These thin clients, now without official support, invariably got dumped onto the second-hand market. They were a company that put out some very interesting FPGA-based thin clients, but as occasionally happens in situations like this, the market wasn’t ready and the company went belly up. If you’ve been reading Hackaday for a while now, you might recall the tale of Pano Logic that we first covered all the way back in 2013. And you know how much we love retro games.Ĭontinue reading “Retro Game Bow Tie” → Posted in ATtiny Hacks, Games Tagged atari, attiny85, galaga, nes, nintendo, pac-man, pong, tetris Nice addition to the electronics bow tie collection on Hackaday. Of course, he needed to access the toggle switch to play the game, so he made a slot for that as well. He fit all the electronics inside the body while allowing the ATtiny to protrude out of the body giving his bow tie some wanted hacker aesthetic. He designed the body of the bow tie with wood. This also helped him make sure his code was as efficient as possible since he had quite a bit of memory constraints using the ATtiny85 (only 512 bytes of RAM). He wrote all his libraries from scratch which really helped him learn a lot about the ATtiny in the process. He decided to use an ATtiny85 and to experiment doing some more lower-level programming to refresh his skills. Recently he decided to try another bow tie hack, this time giving his tie some retro arcade game feels. Back in high school, he added some bright RGB LEDs to the bow tie he wore to prom and even won the male best-dressed award. Be sure to check it out in crazy speed mode action after the break.Īlthough this isn’t the first Pac-Man clock we’ve seen, it devotes equal attention to the time and the game, whereas this one is more about the game itself.Ĭontinue reading “ESP32 Pac-Man Clock Keeps Track Of How Long You Watch It” → Posted in clock hacks, Microcontrollers Tagged clock, ESP32, Ms. Still too much work? The complete kit version is available over on Tindie. Not only that, they have great instructions for building the ESP32 shield on protoboard and also offer the shield as an open-source fab-able PCB. Since then, they have ported the code to the ESP32 and made a new version that has fewer and friendlier components. built a Pac-Man clock a few years ago that was well-received, but not cheap or easy to mimic. Pac-Man and make all the animations go normal speed, fast, or crazy-fast. Not only is this clock quite cool to behold, it plays Pac-Man around the time! Yes, of course you can interact with the Pac-Man - touching the edges of the screen will make him go left, right, up, or down accordingly.
There are so many elements that make a good clock worth looking at for much longer than necessary. That ought to get a few people’s attention.Ĭontinue reading “Play Doom Or GTA V With Your Own Custom Controller And Xbox Emulator” → Posted in Games, handhelds hacks Tagged atmega32u4, doom, pac-man, video game, xbox You could even run Retro games like Doom if you hook it up to a RetroPie. Given that gift-giving season is upon us, you could really impress the video game enthusiast in your life with this as a custom gift.
That could also have a lot to do with the Xbox controller emulator running the background, but still. His original design had buttons instead of joysticks, but switching to joysticks gave him much better in-game control. He mentioned that was a huge improvement over his previous design. We were pretty impressed with how smoothly the controller translated to the game. We really appreciate the detail given to the silkscreen and the homage paid to a staple of retro gaming. No messing with tiny surface mount components here. He opted for all through-hole components to make the assembly easier. Two joysticks for fine control of game characters, 4 face buttons, and two shoulder buttons. The design appears to have been inspired by the Xbox controller layout. Is bringing his own custom-made controller to the party and it is sure to impress.