Mailman 3 March 2019 - PewPew

pewpew on Adafruit Ask an Engineer
by Thierry Chantier March 21, 2019

March 21, 2019

pewpew appears during Adafruit Ask an Engineer https://youtu.be/zcnUSze0XPo?t=1452 Nice!

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Let's go!
by Thierry Chantier March 19, 2019

March 19, 2019

This mailing list is a great idea. Radomir? If you have some time, could you tell us what are your plans for pew pew? For example, do you target a common repository for pew pew and pew pew simulator? Anyway, thanks for the good work already done, it's a very fun board to play with. Thierry

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Newsletter
by Radomir Dopieralski March 19, 2019

March 19, 2019

State of PewPew for 2019-03-18 ****************************** News ==== * If you are reading this, you probably already know, but I will mention it anyways: we have a mailing list! Its address is pewpew(a)python.org and it is hosted bu the Python community, which is really great! * There is a new game available for PewPew, written by Christian Walther. It's a board game Othello (also known as Reversi), and it lets you play against a computer AI. It's available in the github repository at: https://github.com/pewpew-game/game-othello and to play it, all you have to do is to download the .py file, copy it onto your device, and select it from the menu. Don't worry about the opponent taking a long time to think -- it's a slow device. * Speaking of the repository, there has been a little spring cleaning in there and now all the repositories are organized in a logical way. Hopefully it will make it easier to keep them all up to date and to find what you are looking for. * With the beta version of the firmware, it's possible to program the PewPew Standalone devices as USB HID devices -- keyboards, mice or gamepads. There is a demo turning it into a gamepad: https://hackaday.io/project/159733/log/160090 Plans ===== * I'm experimenting with adding a small laser-cut piece of plastic to the bottom of the small standalone PewPews, to make them a little bit more convenient to hold. I should receive them tomorrow, and if they work, I will add the design files for them to the repository. Some photos of a wooden prototype here: https://hackaday.io/project/159733/log/152337 * I made a "how it would look like if it didn't have to be cheap" version of the PewPew Standalone, called PewPew Pro. It has additional 2MB flash storage for files, and a bi-color red-green display controlled with a separate chip, that can also do 255 brightness levels. Unfortunately I didn't have a display with square pixels, so this one has round. I don't have any plans for producing or selling this, but I will make the design files available for anyone who wants to try building their own. More info: https://hackaday.io/project/159733/log/160221-pewpew-pro * I plan to run a small workshop on game making here in Zurich, but first I need to prepare the materials for it, and that takes time. Hopefully I can get that done and run it withing a few weeks from now. * I continue to promote the project among any communities that might find it useful for teaching. If you know someone who would be interested, please let them know, or let me know about them so that I can contact them. * I'm running a secret project that I can't talk about yet, but one thing that I have already learned from it is that if you make over a thousand units of PewPew Standalone, you can get the production cost down to about $6 (from around $10 for small quantities that I did so far). Might be useful for anyone wanting to make and sell them (if you do, let me know, I can help). That's all I have for now, thank you. -- Radomir Dopieralski

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Welcome to the PewPew mailing list
by Radomir Dopieralski March 18, 2019

March 18, 2019

Hello everyone! Welcome to the PewPew mailing list! I hope that we can all have a good time here, and help each other with our PewPew-based devices. I would like to encourage you to post any questions you might have, any projects you might be doing, and any suggestions for the future. Since we are being hosted by the official Python community, all the rules of that community and the code of conduct apply, so please be nice to each other. A little bit of formalities. For those readers who might not know, PewPews are electronic gadgets with 8x8 displays and 6 buttons designed for making simple games in Python. There is a FeatherWing and there are standalone devices. So far they have all been shaped like small hand-help game consoles, though I can imagine it's possible to make something like an arcade cabinet as well. Both the designs and all the code are released under a permissive license (Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike), so that they can be used and reused freely. My personal goal in making of those devices is to have something that can be easily used for organizing game-making workshops. Something that is cheap and doesn't require the participants to install anything on their computers or have Internet access. But of course others might have different goals. A bunch of links: * Project logs: * for the FeatherWing: https://hackaday.io/project/21578-pewpew-featherwing * for the standalone: https://hackaday.io/project/159733-pewpew-standalone * Documentation: http://pewpew.rtfd.io * Designs and code: http://github.com/pewpew-game * Compiled firmware: https://circuitpython.org/board/pewpew10/ * Shop: https://www.tindie.com/stores/deshipu/ I will try to post here about any new developments related to the project. There is one such a news post coming soon. I will also write about my plans for the nearest future. Regards, -- Radomir Dopieralski

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Welcome to the PewPew mailing list
by Radomir Dopieralski March 18, 2019

March 18, 2019

Hello everyone! Welcome to the PewPew mailing list! I hope that we can all have a good time here, and help each other with our PewPew-based devices. I would like to encourage you to post any questions you might have, any projects you might be doing, and any suggestions for the future. Since we are being hosted by the official Python community, all the rules of that community and the code of conduct apply, so please be nice to each other. A little bit of formalities. For those readers who might not know, PewPews are electronic gadgets with 8x8 displays and 6 buttons designed for making simple games in Python. There is a FeatherWing and there are standalone devices. So far they have all been shaped like small hand-help game consoles, though I can imagine it's possible to make something like an arcade cabinet as well. Both the designs and all the code are released under a permissive license (Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike), so that they can be used and reused freely. My personal goal in making of those devices is to have something that can be easily used for organizing game-making workshops. Something that is cheap and doesn't require the participants to install anything on their computers or have Internet access. But of course others might have different goals. A bunch of links: * Project logs: * for the FeatherWing: https://hackaday.io/project/21578-pewpew-featherwing * for the standalone: https://hackaday.io/project/159733-pewpew-standalone * Documentation: http://pewpew.rtfd.io * Designs and code: http://github.com/pewpew-game * Compiled firmware: https://circuitpython.org/board/pewpew10/ * Shop: https://www.tindie.com/stores/deshipu/ I will try to post here about any new developments related to the project. There is one such a news post coming soon. I will also write about my plans for the nearest future. Regards, -- Radomir Dopieralski

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