The Desk of Ladyada - What is this, a gameboy for ants?!?!?
This week we put together our first QT Py accessory board which turns the diminutive board into a tiny gaming platform with 10 buttons, a TFT screen, micro SD card, and headphone out. The PCBs showed up late last week so we quickly soldered one together and we pretty much got it going! then we ported arcada to it (that's our Arduino button/display library) so that we could do basic tests on the hardware. finally we spent friday and saturday on getting retro-go to work so we could use it as an emulator for nes/gameboy/sms/doom/etc. most of that was picking the right idf, learning how to work…
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