Post by monsonite on Dec 29, 2015 5:16:28 GMT -8
Hi All,
This is my first posting and I should like to tell you about a hardware project I have been developing.
I have taken the latest FT812 EVE IC and put it onto a 50mm x 50mm pcb which has "Arduino compatible" headers and a VGA output.
In principle this is similar to GameDuino 1 - but takes advantage of the latest FTDI FT81x chips - and allows a full 800x600 56Hz SVGA image to be displayed on any VGA compatible monitor - projector or large screen TV which will accept a standard D-sub15 HD VGA cable.
The board also has PS/2 keyboard and mouse inputs, and will work with any development board that offers 3.3V Arduino style headers. This includes a wide range of mbed compatible boards - such as Nucleo from STM, and boards from NXP, Freescale and Nordic Semiconductor (Bluetooth).
It has a simple SPI interface - and can be used with virtually any 8 bit or 32 bit microcontroller - allowing the addition of colour animated graphics and sound to any small project.
The first board is just a proof of concept - and it served up its first image very early this morning. The first host was a STM32F407 ARM processor - but I hope to port the GD2 library - so that this be used with Arduino and Arduino "workalikes"
Future boards will contain a micro SDcard - and possibly a powerful ARM host processor.
Whilst this is not intended for driving small LCD panels - it is intended for large screen, bold, colourful graphics - and a touch screen could be added later as a pointing device.
You can read more about it on my blog
The board was designed in EagleCad - and the zipped source and gerber CAD files are attached. The board is 50x50mm - so you can take advantage of some of the very low cost board-house offers.
James Bowman is also experimenting with this pcb - having contacted me for the files and had a few made independently at a cheap Chinese board-house - and he is currently testing them in California.
James is writing some code - so that this can be used with his J1b Forth processor - a derivative of the FPGA soft cpu used on Gameduino 1.
Please contact me for further details
Happy New Year
Ken
This is my first posting and I should like to tell you about a hardware project I have been developing.
I have taken the latest FT812 EVE IC and put it onto a 50mm x 50mm pcb which has "Arduino compatible" headers and a VGA output.
In principle this is similar to GameDuino 1 - but takes advantage of the latest FTDI FT81x chips - and allows a full 800x600 56Hz SVGA image to be displayed on any VGA compatible monitor - projector or large screen TV which will accept a standard D-sub15 HD VGA cable.
The board also has PS/2 keyboard and mouse inputs, and will work with any development board that offers 3.3V Arduino style headers. This includes a wide range of mbed compatible boards - such as Nucleo from STM, and boards from NXP, Freescale and Nordic Semiconductor (Bluetooth).
It has a simple SPI interface - and can be used with virtually any 8 bit or 32 bit microcontroller - allowing the addition of colour animated graphics and sound to any small project.
The first board is just a proof of concept - and it served up its first image very early this morning. The first host was a STM32F407 ARM processor - but I hope to port the GD2 library - so that this be used with Arduino and Arduino "workalikes"
Future boards will contain a micro SDcard - and possibly a powerful ARM host processor.
Whilst this is not intended for driving small LCD panels - it is intended for large screen, bold, colourful graphics - and a touch screen could be added later as a pointing device.
You can read more about it on my blog
The board was designed in EagleCad - and the zipped source and gerber CAD files are attached. The board is 50x50mm - so you can take advantage of some of the very low cost board-house offers.
James Bowman is also experimenting with this pcb - having contacted me for the files and had a few made independently at a cheap Chinese board-house - and he is currently testing them in California.
James is writing some code - so that this can be used with his J1b Forth processor - a derivative of the FPGA soft cpu used on Gameduino 1.
Please contact me for further details
Happy New Year
Ken