Description

Gameduino 2 is a shield that adds a bright 4.3 inch touchscreen an embedded GPU headphone jack accelerometer and microSD slot to your Arduino - or anything else with an SPI interface. Everything you need to create compelling games – right in your hand.

Sound output is via an amplified headphone jack. The system supports a selection of built-in samples and instruments and can also play samples from video memory at up to 48KHz.

The sound and graphics are definitely old-school but thanks to the latest FPGA technology the sprite capabilities are a step above those in machines from the past.

Here are some handy stats:

• Video output is 480x272 pixels in 24-bit color
• OpenGL-style command set
• Up to 2000 sprites any size
• 256 Kbytes of video RAM
• Smooth sprite rotate and zoom with bilinear filtering
• Smooth circle and line drawing in hardware - 16x antialiased
• JPEG loading in hardware
• Built-in rendering of gradients text dials and buttons

The FT800 graphics co-processor can handle media in several formats to reduce the memory footprint:

• Decodes JPEGs directly for lossless image loading decompresses
• Audio samples can be 8-bit linear uLaw or ADPCM

Built into the GPU’s ROM are:

• High-quality fonts in 6 sizes
• Samples of 8 musical instruments playable by MIDI note
• Samples of 10 percussion sounds

And of course you can load your own fonts and audio samples into the 256KB RAM.

Check out the product page for tutorials examples libraries demos etc

Gameduino 2 with 4.3" 480x272 Display and Touchscreen (12:05)