Internet of Things and Hardware Hacking (Part 2) -A Web Controlled Gameboy Console

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After the success of the first project, RLM decided to hack into one of his childhood treasure -Gameboy Console.

The task of this project is to: 1) reverse engineer and hack Gameboy in order to control it with Arduino, 2) and remotely play it from web.

The Soldering and the Arduino Sketch Code

The Soldering

The biggest challenge is to reverse engineer the ...

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Internet of Things and Hardware Hacking (Part 1) -A Web Controlled LED Digit Display

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This was the very first project RLM, Limdo and I did about a few month ago – a very simple project which covers the whole nine yards of internet of things, from basic concept to final implementation. I have been so intrigued by the wonder of electronics and programming world ever since.

The task of this project is to: 1) use Arduino to control 13 LEDs for a digit display, 2) ...

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Transcompile Arduio TFT GUI Sketch from SVG File

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Let machine do the dirty work. To continue what I started in last post, I tried to see if it is possible to parse the SVG file and generate arduino sketch code out of it. The answer is yes. There is a wonderful post and a SVG Optimiser which helps me greatly for this project.

Parse the SVG file with the powerful lxml to generate an element ...

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Arduino TFT LCD GUI – Load Bitmap Image

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There are two ways to draw bitmap images in Arduino TFT LCD – to draw from SD card, or convert them into byte array. The first is more powerful and works with true color bitmap images; the 2nd approach is more suitable for simple logo and monochrome images, and there is no need for SD capability for this method.

Convert Images to C++ Byte Array

There are a ...

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Compile and Upload Arduino Sketch with PlatformIO in Arch Linux running on PC, Raspberry Pi 2 and 3

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PlatformIO is a python tool to build and upload sketches for multiple Hardware Platforms, at the moment of writing these are Arduino/AVR based boards. This is the only tool working with Raspberry Pi running Arch Linux so far, and I have been searching for some tool like this for a long time.

NB: The over-bearing minion is there because every time my little one sees it, she giggles.

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