Mercurial > PewPew
changeset 17:b9e88e81c242 draft
Add a section about hardware to the docs
| author | Radomir Dopieralski <sheep-devel@sheep.art.pl> |
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| date | Fri, 25 Aug 2017 10:31:32 +0200 |
| parents | 74dc0126901e |
| children | fe382a955e58 |
| files | docs/hardware.rst docs/index.rst |
| diffstat | 2 files changed, 31 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 +++ b/docs/hardware.rst Fri Aug 25 10:31:32 2017 +0200 @@ -0,0 +1,30 @@ +Hardware +******** + +PewPew Lite FeatherWing +======================= + +PewPew Lite is a shield for the Adafruit Feather series of development boards +(a FeatherWing, as they call them). You put it on top of one of their boards, +and then program that board (preferably in CircuitPython) to create games and +other interactive programs. + +The shield contains six buttons and an eight-by-eight bi-color LED display, +capable of displaying four different colors (black, green, red and yellow). It +also includes a HT16K33 chip that handles the display and the buttons, so that +you can focus on just writing the code for your game. Optionally, you can add a +LiPO battery to it, to make the whole thing into a portable handheld game +console. The shield includes a power switch for that battery. + + +Future Development +================== + +The first prototypes of the PewPew shield used a different chip, allowing it to +have thousands of different colors. However, it couldn't handle key presses, so +it also had to have an additional chip for that. It complicated the whole +design and made it more expensive. During tests, we noticed that you really +don''t need all those colors to make simple and fun games, so we simplified and +made PewPew Lite that is available now. We will keep working on other versions, +though, and quite possibly there will be a version of PewPew with more colors, +or even with a higher resolution display. But we can't really promise anything.