Sunday, December 19, 2010

Well, I created a simple block shooting game using the arduino, wii nunchuck, and LoL shield. This is one of the first times doing multiple tabs of arduino code, and learned that the prototypes are only created for the original one, not all the rest. It is a pretty nifty but simple game. I am thinking though, that after I show it to some of the devs at work I will try rewriting it for the ST7565 LCD display that I got. I think that will allow me to make some more complex scenes and maybe make a space invader like game.

I may also try to do a version of pong for the LoL shield sometime. That could be nifty.

Friday, December 10, 2010

Well, my NXT needed some repairs today. The display was acting funny, as in not working. After some research it turned out that some of the caps needed to be resoldered. Wasn't too bad even though they were SMDs.

And I found what might be the perfect board for a biped robot. The leaf lab maple, with an arm cortex cpu instead of an 8 bit avr. And it has a modified arduino environment. I think that might be perfect for some of the more complex stuff that I will do with a biped. So may order that and the lynxmotion BRAT sometime in the next month or two.