Tetris made with a PIC18F2550

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This time I'm writing to show you my newest electronic creation: a "videogame console" made with a PIC18F2550 as its brain. It has a 8x16 LED matrix as main display and 4 seven segment displays to show the player score, for example. It has 8 buttons (4 in …

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Electronic dice

Well, after a few weeks not doing almost anything I've decided to post the last useless device I've made. It's a simple electronic dice using a decade counter and some inverters (used for logic and as oscillator). I decided not to use a microcontroller because it felt like it was …

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Game Boy Camera documentation

Over the last few weeks I've been doing some reverse engineering on the GB Camera and I think I've documented it good enough for most things. I've reversed the cartridge controller registers and measured the capture timings. The only thing that I can't understand is the level/gain control of …

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32x8 Yellow LED Matrix

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I've been messing around with electronics lately (after all, that's what I'm studying :P), and this is the result! A 32x8 LED Matrix controlled by a PIC18F2550. You can click in the pictures for full size! At the end of the post there is a video of the screen …

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