Freetronics DMD – Games

I had a little while free and so ported a bunch of games I wrote for the Peggy2 to work with a pair of DMD’s
In doing so the games now run at 32×32 and are controlled by a Wii nunchuck.
The games are snake, pong, breakout and race.
The Arduino code is available at DMD_games.zip
The two screens are daisy-chained but as the cable connecting them is quite short the top one is upside-down.
To get this working the modified DMD library is setup to handle rows of displays where odd-numbered rows are upside down.
See this diagram for how it is laid out (for 2×2 case)

Playing is fairly straight-forward.  Only thing to remember is that the ‘z-button’ on the nunchuck is used to select and the ‘c-button’ is used to exit back to the menu

Have a look at the video below to see them in action.

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2 Responses to “Freetronics DMD – Games”

  • Jason says:

    Hey,
    Thanks for sharing! Did you have to power each one from a separate power source? or are they all powered from the Arduino?

    • cjd says:

      There is a seperate powersupply for the displays – I’m using an old 5V power supply from an MP3 player I used to own.

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