ESP8266 Game

Description

I started this project because I thought it would be very cool to create a game-boy out of the ESP8266 where people can utilize any of the ESP8266 libraries such as the Arduino IDE to create retro and modern monochromatic games. Since an ESP8266 is used that means WiFi capability is built right in meaning games can be made multiplayer whether local or over the Internet. Another goal was to make this as small as possible and something that could easily fit in your pocket. the unit itself is only slightly bigger than 3 AA cells and in the future versions will fit this form factor as well as offer more features such as built in lithium battery charging and built in USB programmer.

Files

ESP8266-Game.zip

Source Code

Zip Archive - 73.46 kB - 03/04/2021 at 18:21

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Components

1 × PCB

1 × ESP8266-12(e)

1 × SSD1306 Display

1 × PSP1000 Joystick

4 × 0805 10K Resistors

Project Logs

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ESP8266-Game Plays Super Smash Bros. !!!
Daniel Johnson • 12/20/2015 at 08:19 • 0 comments

I will be making an actual super smash bros that's multiplayer over the ESP8266 Wifi and that plays on the ESP8266-Game's Screen. Similar to the port that's been done on the TI calculators.
PC Controller
Daniel Johnson • 12/19/2015 at 18:16 • 0 comments

Lately I've been working on using the ESP8266-Game to be used as a WiFi controller for my PC and so far I've got it working. Once I get the code polished up I will be releasing it as well.
PCBs
Daniel Johnson • 12/12/2015 at 09:07 • 0 comments

The PCBs have arrived and I have built the first one and it works!!!!
Prototype Phase
Daniel Johnson • 12/12/2015 at 09:03 • 0 comments

An overview of the prototype.
Playing Pong

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Discussions

Cppppy wrote 11/24/2021 at 15:26

Hi, can you tell me which.ino file is for wireless game controller? I don't really understand

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Daniel Johnson wrote 07/07/2017 at 06:13

i think this is the only thing i published. http://cracked-ice.com/Downloads/ESP8266/

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panosssj4 wrote 07/02/2016 at 21:03

Can you reupload the code for the controller because cracked-ice.com is down?

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Daniel Johnson wrote 10/31/2016 at 04:47

website is back up. don't know for how long. been real busy with school lately and server is being hosted at a friends house and i don't regularly update the DNS like i should

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pRoFiT wrote 04/24/2016 at 06:46

Nice i was just thinking along the same lines of using the ESP for a wireless controller. I really want to build a couple units with like 4 buttons so they could be used for PC Trivia game. i found an SDK called vJoy that i was going to use for it. But maybe your code completes even more of what i was looking for by having the ESP communication built in. Thanks! Now off to find a good trivia API to use.

edit: just opened the ino file. 1000 lines of code. nice.

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Daniel Johnson wrote 04/25/2016 at 07:23

most of those lines of code are copy and paste for the screen.

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Craig Hissett wrote 04/07/2016 at 11:31

This is great - the creation of the PC script just takes this on to a completely different level.

I've only just started getting to grips with the ESP chips, but I need one of these in my life ha ha!

Great stuff man!

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Ulrich Norbisrath wrote 02/04/2016 at 10:09

Hi there. Nice project! A friend and I are also tinkering with the esp8266 (board similar to the Adfruit Huzzah) and an Arduino to turn it in some kind makey-makey like game controller (sorry, we can actually do our own PCB boards). Can you tell us a little bit or provide some links/references about the software you use or is all written yourself?

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Daniel Johnson wrote 02/04/2016 at 18:32

sure thing. i can send you the code. i must warn you it is a bit cluttered. i've been meaning to clean it up but i have been busy with school. i didn't interface it with an arduino however i only used an esp8266 standalone so i wont be able to help you with AT commands or anything because im not familiar and probably won't become familiar with them.

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Daniel Johnson wrote 02/04/2016 at 18:34

here's the link to my code http://cracked-ice.com/Downloads/ESP8266/ESP8266Controller.zip

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Ulrich Norbisrath wrote 02/05/2016 at 06:34

Thanks so much - digging into it - was thinking about starting some small OS project which could be easily embedded into your own games (some kind of mini udp server eating directional control commands), but will now look at your code and see if it changes my direction.

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Ulrich Norbisrath wrote 02/05/2016 at 06:42

Nice, am I right that you are actually taking the events from the esp and then faking mouse events on the windows pc? And you also set up a UDP server ;-) TCP has too much latency?

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Daniel Johnson wrote 02/06/2016 at 11:22

exactly. the ESP8266 just sends out the status of its controls and all
the meat is done in the program. just fakes the mouse events and stuff.
took a bit of time to get right to work with games using directx but in
the end i got it all working

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