{"id":193,"date":"2011-09-11T12:07:34","date_gmt":"2011-09-11T16:07:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.logicalzero.com\/blog\/?p=193"},"modified":"2014-05-23T01:14:49","modified_gmt":"2014-05-23T05:14:49","slug":"gamby-prototype-2-boards-are-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.logicalzero.com\/blog\/?p=193","title":{"rendered":"GAMBY Prototype #2 boards are done!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: left; margin-right: 16px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 24px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/27076997@N00\/6134860960\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img style=\"border: solid 2px #000000;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.logicalzero.com\/blog\/images\/Gamby_Prototype_2_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"The second prototype of my GAMBY LCD\/game shield.\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t been updating the blog, but I have been working on things. Among them is GAMBY, my LCD\/game shield for Arduino. I just had a second batch of six prototype boards manufactured, this time by <a href=\"http:\/\/dorkbotpdx.org\/wiki\/pcb_order\" target=\"_blank\">Laen<\/a>of DorkbotPDX.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully, this is close to the final design; there are a few minor changes to be made, but those shouldn&#8217;t impact the pinout, layout or components. I&#8217;ll assemble one today to verify that it works, and I&#8217;ll be modifying the existing code libraries to match the revisions made since the previous prototype.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--> The board designs are now in a public repository on GitHub: <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/logicalzero\/gamby.hardware\" target=\"_blank\">gamby.hardware<\/a>. The code for the character editor (in Processing) and a sprite generation tool (in Python) have their own repo as well: <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/logicalzero\/gamby.tools\" target=\"_blank\">gamby.tools<\/a>. The libraries will go on line as soon as I think they&#8217;re ready for public consumption. Since the boards aren&#8217;t yet in production I don&#8217;t think the latter is yet a high priority.<\/p>\n<p>&lt;&lt; Back to my <a href=\"http:\/\/projects.logicalzero.com\/\">projects blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t been updating the blog, but I have been working on things. Among them is GAMBY, my LCD\/game shield for Arduino. I just had a second batch of six prototype boards manufactured, this time by Laenof DorkbotPDX. &nbsp; Hopefully, this is close to the final design; there are a few minor changes to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[51],"tags":[41,61],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.logicalzero.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.logicalzero.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.logicalzero.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.logicalzero.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.logicalzero.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=193"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/www.logicalzero.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":795,"href":"http:\/\/www.logicalzero.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions\/795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.logicalzero.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.logicalzero.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.logicalzero.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}