Excamera Gameduino 3

Gameduino 3 adds a bright 4.3 inch touchscreen to the Arduino. It features amazing graphics, audio and video from the FT810 GPU -- right in your hand. It is by far the most capable graphics shield for the Arduino, and many find it the easiest to use.

Gameduino 3 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.

• 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

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 FT800 can handle media in several formats directly. These save CPU memory, and mean simpler code on the CPU.

• decodes JPEGs directly
• for lossless image loading, decompresses (zlib INFLATE) directly
• 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.

Links:

• The Gameduino 3 library and tools are available at Gameduino 3 code
• For development discussion, there is a forum http://gameduino2.proboards.com/
• PCB and Schematics
• FAQ

PLAY-ZONE is the official Swiss-Distributor of ExCamera

A selection of the demos of the GD3. Everything you see - including the video - is running on a standard Arduino.

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