Ever wanted to play pong on your phone ? :D

Shree Kumar wrote 04/12/2018 at 18:37

@Kirschner Christoph I think this will mostly be a kernel hack and some userspace code (C rules!). Some Java might be required, though. I will document it as soon as I finish it, and then maybe you can take a crack at it too!

In the Android world, Java is very important. It actually makes it quite easy to write simple applications. In the OLED example (soon to be documented), I do all my bitmap drawing through the Android Java API. Then convert it into an bit pattern for the OLED.

Are you sure? yes | no

Kirschner Christoph wrote 04/13/2018 at 04:01

That sounds really interessting !!

Can't wait!!

Are you sure? yes | no

Shree Kumar wrote 04/08/2018 at 18:54

Good one!

Are you sure? yes | no

Kirschner Christoph wrote 04/10/2018 at 15:58

I saw this in your project and thought it would be cool !! :D mine was written for a 8x8 matrix and I simply rewrote the code so that the game works on this charlieplexed 16x7 matrix and with two buttons instead of a poti :)

Are you sure? yes | no

Shree Kumar wrote 04/10/2018 at 16:08

Haha ! It's good, still. Put a SPI oled if you can - that will totally blow things up! I found I2C to be a bit slow, and am planning to move it to SPI.

Here's another cool idea I am investigating right now -- it would be amazing if the touch panel (of the primary screen) can be used as a controller. That way, pong can run very fast & the users reflexes can be tested. Best of all, every phone already has a touchscreen. So I think this would be a hit.

Would fairphone software allow this in some way ?

Are you sure? yes | no

Kirschner Christoph wrote 04/12/2018 at 18:21

@Shree Kumar

And that is the point where the problems start.. The Software-part..

I'm kind of good in C but Java is very new to me..

But the idea is great !! Sounds quite tricky to play :D

Are you sure? yes | no

QuiteSomeLEDsAddon

Discussions

Become a Hackaday.io Member