Logic Gate Board Game 03: Adventures in MPLab -- Episode 292

Matt — Fri, 26 May 2017 07:24:00 GMT

Current Revision posted to Documents by Matt on 5/26/2017 7:24:00 AM

Join the Ben Heck team every week for amazing hacks! Watch them build and mod community-inspired projects using electronics!

Back to The Ben Heck Show homepage

Logic Gate Board Game

Featured Bonus Content

See All Episodes

www.youtube.com/watch

After deciding to use an LCD screen for the Logic Gate Board Game, Ben gets to work on programming the Pic32mz series microcontroller in MPLab X IDE. Using the programming software and Direct Memory Access (DMA) transfers, Ben learns how to display everything from TrueType Font (ttf) text to images and photo’s on the screen. After some soldering, Ben gets stuck in and has to make a trade-off due to the amount of available RAM on the microcontroller with processes called ‘double buffering’ to make sure that as little RAM is used as possible. As Ben says, programming is 10% coding, 90% copy/paste! Do you have any experience driving LCD screens? Or want to chime in on the Logic Gate Board game build?

Disclaimer

Tags: mplab x ide, hack, mplab, lcd screen, logic gate board game, microcontroller, lcd screen control, pic32, heck, ben, stem projects, tbhs_ep, episode 292: logic gate board game 03: adventures in mp

Episode 292: Logic Gate Board Game 03: Adventures in MPLab

randogless — Mon, 07 Aug 2017 21:36:12 GMT

Revision 1 posted to Documents by randogless on 8/7/2017 9:36:12 PM