For my birthday my girlfriend got me a Meggy Jr! it’s an awesome build-it-yourself handheld based on the arduino platform with an 8by8 pixel RGB screen. I initially thought about creating a sort of Pacman clone, I got so far and then got bored of just copying a game that’s been done half a hundred times. So…instead I decided to have the Meggy Jr alternately display the temperature and an icon representing the weather. »
A few months ago on KickStarter I sponsored a project called the Gameduino, an add on shield for the Arduino, advertised as a game adapter for the Arduino. This is an awesome little device that has 32Kb of RAM, brings support for VGA output, stere... »
In an earlier post I mentioned briefly about using pySerial to send data to and from the arduino using Python, in this post I'll go through a bit more about how to set this up. First you'll need pySerial, which can be downloaded from here. For win... »