Gameduino 2 with 4.3" 480x272 Display and Touchscreen

Gameduino 2 with 4.3" 480x272 Display and Touchscreen info

Gameduino 2 with 4.3" 480x272 Display and Touchscreen 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 your own games.

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.

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
• You can load your own fonts and audio samples into the 256KB RAM.

Gameduino 2 with 4.3" 480x272 Display and Touchscreen - General Specifications

• 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

Gameduino 2 with 4.3" 480x272 Display and Touchscreen - Technical Specifications

• Dimensions: 67 x 105 x 4mm (2.5 x 4 x 0.2")
• Weight: 73g

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Documents

Developer Product Page: http://excamera.com/sphinx/gameduino2/

References

Adafruit Product Page: https://www.adafruit.com/products/1654