{"id":5662,"date":"2025-04-11T18:16:14","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T09:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aireviewirush.com\/?p=5662"},"modified":"2025-04-11T18:16:14","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T09:16:14","slug":"this-compact-board-turns-an-adafruit-dotstar-led-matrix-right-into-a-tiny-retro-gaming-console","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aireviewirush.com\/?p=5662","title":{"rendered":"This Compact Board Turns an Adafruit DotStar LED Matrix right into a Tiny Retro-Gaming Console"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>\n<p class=\"hckui__typography__bodyL\">Pseudonymous maker &#8220;mars91&#8221; has constructed a pocket-friendly handheld console, designed to run the basic sport of Snake or the once-viral Flappy Chicken on an RGB LED matrix \u2014 beneath the management of a Microchip ATtiny1616 microcontroller.<\/p>\n<p class=\"hckui__typography__bodyL\">&#8220;A pocket-sized gamer that makes use of an 8\u00d78 RGB pixel matrix to play Snake, Flappy Chicken, and another retro video games you may design,&#8221; mars91 explains of their creation. &#8220;I believe vivid RGB LEDs look nice, and needed to create one thing that showcases them. I began with the basic sport of Snake and ended up with each Snake and Flappy Chicken, all programmed with minimal parts.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"hckui__layout__marginTop30 hckui__layout__marginBottom30 hckui__layout__fullWidth\"><figcaption class=\"hckui__typography__textCenter hckui__typography__pebble hckui__typography__bodyS hckui__layout__marginTop10\">Powered by a Microchip ATtiny1616, this compact console performs Snake and Flappy Chicken. (\ud83d\udcf9: mars91)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"hckui__typography__bodyL\">The custom-built circuit board \u2014 which incorporates the supply code for Snake on its silkscreen layer \u2014 is constructed round a Microchip ATtiny1616 microcontroller, linked to 5 buttons: 4 path buttons and a fifth that can be utilized to change between the 2 video games loaded within the firmware, or extra should you add your individual. There are pads for an Adafruit DotStar 8\u00d78 RGB LED matrix, an influence swap, and a CR123A battery holder on the rear \u2014 together with connections for an UPDI programmer, the board missing USB connectivity for programming.<\/p>\n<p class=\"hckui__typography__bodyL\">&#8220;The LED matrix asks for an electrolytic capacitor as a result of potential fast and excessive present attracts when many LEDs are turned on directly,&#8221; mars91 explains of 1 specific design quirk. &#8220;This sport solely lights up a number of LEDs at a time (except you are good at Snake), so I selected to not use a capacitor. I&#8217;ve examined this board for hours and mine works with out them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"hckui__typography__bodyL\"><span>The total information, together with supply code, is out there <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instructables.com\/RGB-LED-Pocket-Gamer\/\" class=\"hckui__typography__linkBlue\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">on Instructables<\/a><span>; board Gerbers have been uploaded <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcbway.com\/project\/shareproject\/W775378ASH115_atiny_1616_gamer_7d48b6c6.html\" class=\"hckui__typography__linkBlue\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">to PCBWay<\/a><span> beneath the Artistic Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pseudonymous maker &#8220;mars91&#8221; has constructed a pocket-friendly handheld console, designed to run the basic sport of Snake or the once-viral Flappy Chicken on an RGB LED matrix \u2014 beneath the management of a Microchip ATtiny1616 microcontroller. &#8220;A pocket-sized gamer that makes use of an 8\u00d78 RGB pixel matrix to play Snake, Flappy Chicken, and another [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5664,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aireviewirush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aireviewirush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aireviewirush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aireviewirush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aireviewirush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5662"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aireviewirush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5663,"href":"https:\/\/aireviewirush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5662\/revisions\/5663"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aireviewirush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aireviewirush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aireviewirush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aireviewirush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}