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Race Game 5x5 LED Matrix

Dr. VetterDr. Vetter Posts: 34
edited 2008-08-11 20:12 in Robotics
Well Finally after racking my brain and figuring it out.

I·have created my very own game from scratch.

It is a copy of an old atari game (not sure on name been to long ago)

The code used all but a hair of the EEPROM, Im sure it can be shortened.

The game uses two switches an A and B to move the car left or right.
Objects head downward and must be avoided.
When the level is completed it speeds up when failed it slows down the game speed.

Included there is a Schematic and my code
I used UPTB550 instead of 2N3904


Dr. Vetter
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5x5matrix.bmp
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RaceGame.bs2
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Comments

  • Mike GreenMike Green Posts: 23,101
    edited 2008-07-07 23:06
    I'm glad you got it going the way you wanted. How's the performance and the quality of the display?

    It's a good demonstration of what can be accomplished with just a BS2 and a few external components.
  • Dr. VetterDr. Vetter Posts: 34
    edited 2008-07-08 01:28
    The display works pretty well, I made sure that everything in each step took only 15ms so that everything would stay in the same rythm you still see the flicker and I could bring it down but its not bad enough to bother.

    My only failure was to understand how to have a set of 50 different steps setup in a list and only 1 was pulled for each step through a simple DO.....LOOP but I couldn't find the answer and felt that it was not possible
    so this was the other way I did it cutting the extra off when I ran out of room.
    I do feel good to know that I did learn alot about how things come together
    and for that it was a great project.

    Dr. Vetter
  • T&E EngineerT&E Engineer Posts: 1,396
    edited 2008-07-08 03:07
    Can we see some pictures or a youtube video of it in action?
  • Dr. VetterDr. Vetter Posts: 34
    edited 2008-07-08 13:38
    here you GO



    enjoy, now I did see that someone else has made a game just like mine
    but he is useing the method I was trying to do

  • T&E EngineerT&E Engineer Posts: 1,396
    edited 2008-07-08 13:55
    Nice project. However doing an 8x8 bi-color matrix (like the other Youtube video) would be a stretch for a BS2 unless additional hardware was added for the matrix control.

    Over-all nice job for a 5x5 matrix.
  • Dr. VetterDr. Vetter Posts: 34
    edited 2008-07-08 14:37
    thank you good luck with yours
  • Lord SteveLord Steve Posts: 206
    edited 2008-07-10 20:40
    Perhaps the Atari game you are thinking of is "Grand Prix"?· That game·used left-to-right style, though.
  • Dr. VetterDr. Vetter Posts: 34
    edited 2008-07-10 23:12
    no its not Grand Prix
    more genaric then that
    I think I'll have to go to my mom's and see her collection of atari games
    (it's bugging the s#!t out of me)
  • Timothy D. SwieterTimothy D. Swieter Posts: 1,613
    edited 2008-07-11 12:04
    Nice job. Some of the simplest ideas for projects can end up being the most challenging and the ones we learn the most from.

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  • Dan TaylorDan Taylor Posts: 207
    edited 2008-08-11 20:12
    Hey,

    I am relativly new at this so bear with me. I am wanting to build a 8 x 8 matrix racing game like the one that was done here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVTRdPzm3pg&feature=related

    I don't know how to work the matrix very well or code it.

    Would it be to hard to code with the Bs2e?

    Thanks for any help!

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