GamePack

Were you ever the kind of person to hack up your own Playstation controllers and hook it up to something else? Well, those shards of plastic can be mighty dangerous, so I’ve done it for you. And hey, with the GamePack you’ll even have something you can hook it up to.

The GamePack comes with an Arduino, MeCap Backpack, TouchShield Stealth or Slide, ExtenderShield and an InputShield- everything you need to create your own open source, portable gaming device. Want to create a whole new gaming platform? Why not?

I’ve just added a new option for wide screen that includes the new TouchShield Slide. It’s brand new so I haven’t written a lot of code for it yet, but it’s just as easy to program as the TouchShield Stealth.

Components

• 1 Arduino Duemilanove
• 1 TouchShield Stealth or TouchShield Slide
• 1 DoubleWide OR DoubleTall ExtenderShield
• 1 MeCap Lithium Backpack
• 1 InputShield

Specs

• 128×128 OLED Screen
• Resistive Touch Screen
• Holds 60 128×128 bitmap images
• Compatible with Arduino Environment
• Only Uses Arduino Pins: 3 and 4
• Graphics Library Ready to Go
• Draw Shapes, Pixels, Colors, Graphs, Buttons
• 1.50 inch diagonal

• 320×240 OLED Screen
• Resistive Touch Screen
• Holds 60 128×128 bitmap images
• Compatible with Arduino Environment
• Only Uses Arduino Pins: 3 and 4
• Graphics Library Ready to Go
• Draw Shapes, Pixels, Colors, Graphs, Buttons
• 2.83 inch diagonal

Tutorials / Blogs

• Getting started with the GamePack in 3 steps
• Up and running in 5 minutes

References and Firmware

• Download the Latest TouchShield Core firmware
• Graphics Functions Reference

Media

Another shot of the Open Source Gameboy Project