Meggy Jr, weather and temperature

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. »

Gameduino: Sprite Tutorial 1

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... »

Launchpad MSP430 - binary display

Just a quick post here about my first little test project for the MSP430 before I start on my main post about the Gameduino. I received an MSP430 Launchpad the other day, and for just over ?4 I cant complain about the price. it comes with two chip... »

C64 Assembly Tutorial 1: Hello World

Yes, that's right I'm on about assembly programming for the Commodore 64, a computer that's nearly 30 years old. You may be wondering why I would want to learn how to program for such a machine, well the first reason is that I want to learn assemb... »

nLove, Dingoo and fonts

For anyone who's been following my twitter feed you may know that I've been starting to develop a game in Lua and LOVE, a 2D game engine. After messing about with LOVE I found out that there was a version of love2D for the dingoo, canoo and gp2x c... »