Micro:Boy – Arcade games for the Micro:bit

February 6, 2018February 4, 2018 fustinigaming, hackaday.io, i2c, microbit, OLED, retro gamingLeave a comment

ɖҿϝիɟթվ created this project to play arcade games on the Micro:bit:

Micro:Boy

The Micro:bit is a pretty decent platform for teaching kids to program, but you can’t really make arcade-style games for it. You only have two buttons and a 5×5 display. Perhaps enough for a very small snake game, but that’s pretty much it. That’s why I started working on #PewPew FeatherWing as an alternative platform, but at some point I started wondering if it’s really impossible to do it on the micro:bit.

When the most recent version of micropython got the ability to use any pins for I2C, I realized that I can finally connect a display easily. I could use a HT16K33 and a 8×8 LED matrix like on the PewPew, but I decided to try something else — a monochrome OLED display, similar to the one used on many Arduino-based game consoles.

SAMD21G Sensor Board with Color OLED

October 17, 2017October 18, 2017 fustiniARM, atmel, Data Logger, OLED, SAMD21Leave a comment

Assembly instructions on Mike Rankin’s blog:

SAMD21G Sensor Board with Color Oled

Design files and source are available on GitHub:

mike-rankin/SAMD21G18A_Sensor_Board_with_Color_Oled

This Sensor Board is yet another variation of another one on my site. It is not for sale with no real purpose in mind but the design files to make your own are here. The project was created as design challenge. My full time job is pcb design work and as a hobby I enjoy experimenting with new design ideas.

This was one of the more challenging designs I’ve worked on in a while. A few times I’d given up on routing it. Evan using four routing layers I found it tough. The idea was to hide the bezel of the display behind the board but have sensor components on that same board. It would look something like a little tiny television with all the components around the edges.

This latest revision has fixed a few issues I found on previous versions but the design idea can possibly help others in some way. Full credit goes to Adafruit for publishing the Feather M0 design files along with the bootloader. I used the Feather design to create the schematic for my board.

Introducing the Fiddle – Tiny UI for ioNode

August 24, 2017August 28, 2017 fustinimicrocontroller, OLED, retro gamingLeave a comment

Introducing the Fiddle – Tiny UI for ioNode

Playing classic Snake on the Fiddle. Developed by Mauricio Togneri using the Dooba SDK

pockeTETRIS: compact Tetris clone using ATtiny85 and OLED

August 6, 2017August 3, 2017 fustiniatmel, attiny85, avr, hackaday, OLED, tetrisLeave a comment

[dombeef] originally built pocketTETRIS as a Father’s Day gift for his Tetris-loving pops. However, having finished the project he’s decided to share it with the universe, and it’s looking rather sweet. He made the game the smallest he could make, with size limitations imposed by a 0.96” OLED display, the coin-cell battery pack, and his desire…

via Mini Tetris Game Packs a Tiny85 — Hackaday

SSD1306 1.3″ OLED SPI breakout board

July 25, 2017July 25, 2017 fustinimicrocontroller, OLED, spi, SSD1306Leave a comment

Rene van der Meer designed this breakout board for a bare OLED display:

SSD1306 1.3″ OLED SPI breakout board

I’ve been playing with cheap OLED display breakouts for years, incorporating complete boards into my projects – an easy, but bulky solution. Now that I’ve had some practice designing circuits and PCBs, it’s time for my next challenge: soldering the display FPCs directly to my own boards.

I designed this board to try out a minimal circuit before integrating it into any larger projects, and to figure out the best way to solder flexible circuits to my boards. Since all of my new microcontroller-powered board designs only require 3.3 V, I haven’t added any 5 V tolerant level shifting. What’s left is a bare minimum circuit to drive a Solomon Systech SSD1306 using SPI at 3.3 V.

golemparts has shared the board on OSH Park:

SSD1306 SPI Breakout v1.0 A

MorseCard: A Tiny Telegraph Station

June 21, 2017June 21, 2017 fustinihackster.io, microcontroller, OLEDLeave a comment

From Alex Wulff on Hackster.io:

MorseCard – A Tiny Telegraph Station

This small PCB lets you learn Morse code and communicate with friends. Set up a telegraph network in your very own home!

The source code is shared on GitHub:

AlexFWulff/MorseCard

AlexWulff has shared the project on OSH Park:

MorseCard LiPo

SAMD21G18A Sensor Board with Color OLED

April 29, 2017April 24, 2017 fustiniatmel, OLED, SAMD21, sensorLeave a comment

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SAMD21G18A Sensor Board with Color LED by Mike Rankin. The design files are source code available on GitHub:

SAMD21G18A_Sensor_Board_with_Color_Oled

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Here’s a video of the board:

ESPTool: WiFi Security Swiss Army Knife

December 18, 2016December 16, 2016 fustiniEAGLE, esp8266, hackaday.io, OLED, Pen Test, security, wifi, wirelessLeave a comment

Daniel Grießhaber created this convenient tool to test your WiFi Security against attackers:

ESPTool

Demonstrate how easy it is to crack a WiFi Password or jam your WiFi so you can’t access the internet. Designed for education and self-tests.

https://hackaday.io/project/12869-esptool

ESPTool has the following hardware:

SSD1306 based OLED Display, connected via I2C
microSD Card Socket connected over the SPI interface
3 general purpose buttons
ESP8266-12E Module
TPS63031 Buck-/Boost-Converter with an input range from 1.8V – 5.5V
MCP73831 Single-Cell LiPo Charger Chip
CP2012 USB to UART converter Chip

The design files and source code are available on GitHub:

dangrie158/ESPTool

MicroUSB powered ESP8266 Oled Board

October 26, 2016 fustiniESP32, iot, OLED, wifi1 Comment

Mike Rankin created this board with a tiny OLED display controlled by an ESP8266:

MicroUSB powered ESP8266 OLED Board

I created this design as a challenge to make a design under 1″ x 1″ in size.

https://0miker0.wordpress.com/microusb-powered-esp8266-oled-board/

The hardware is an ESP-01 ESP8266 Wifi module, linear power supply, microUSB connector and a few oled display parts.

https://0miker0.wordpress.com/microusb-powered-esp8266-oled-board/

The design files and source code are available on GitHub:

ESP8266_OLED

Here is a video of the assembly and operation:

miker has shared the board on OSH Park:

ESP8266 OLED Board Rev3

Color OLED board with ESP8266 WiFi

October 20, 2016October 20, 2016 fustiniesp8266, OLED, wifi4 Comments

Mike Rankin created this adorably small WiFi-connected color OLED board:

ESP8266 Color OLED

I’ve been keeping an eye on the SSD1331 library to see if it would eventually work with the ESP8266 wifi modules. I noticed the support for it appeared one day with the Adafruit library so I tried it out on my Adafruit Hazzah and success!

source: https://0miker0.wordpress.com/esp8266-color-oled/

Video of the board in action:

miker has shared the board on OSH Park:

OSH Park

Perfect Purple PCBs

OLED

Micro:Boy – Arcade games for the Micro:bit

Micro:Boy

SAMD21G Sensor Board with Color OLED

SAMD21G Sensor Board with Color Oled

mike-rankin/SAMD21G18A_Sensor_Board_with_Color_Oled

Introducing the Fiddle – Tiny UI for ioNode

Introducing the Fiddle – Tiny UI for ioNode

pockeTETRIS: compact Tetris clone using ATtiny85 and OLED

SSD1306 1.3″ OLED SPI breakout board

SSD1306 1.3″ OLED SPI breakout board

SSD1306 SPI Breakout v1.0 A

MorseCard: A Tiny Telegraph Station

MorseCard – A Tiny Telegraph Station

AlexFWulff/MorseCard

MorseCard LiPo

SAMD21G18A Sensor Board with Color OLED

SAMD21G18A_Sensor_Board_with_Color_Oled

ESPTool: WiFi Security Swiss Army Knife

ESPTool

dangrie158/ESPTool

MicroUSB powered ESP8266 Oled Board

MicroUSB powered ESP8266 OLED Board

ESP8266_OLED

ESP8266 OLED Board Rev3

Color OLED board with ESP8266 WiFi

ESP8266 Color OLED

ESP8266-12E_0.95_Color_Oled_Rev1