State of PewPew for 2020-04-26
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News
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* Makerfabs has published a video for PewPew M4 assembly:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5lZwVgA690
* Szymon Jakubiak implemented Conway's Game of Life to honor
the recently departed mathematican:
https://twitter.com/SzymonJakubiak/status/1251043560314613760
* A fix landed for colors on all boards using Stage -- now the
colors will be consistent with DisplayIO.
* Also, the sound buffer has been increased, fixing some sound
issues.
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Radomir Dopieralski
Hello!
First of all, congratulations to Radomir for creating PewPew Standalone, which is such a great and cheap arcade game console for beginner coders!
Now my question: since PewPew Standalone is based on SAMD21 (ARM Cortex M0), is it possible to program it using Microsoft MakeCode (maker.makecode.com), as it supports Adafruit Feather M0, Arduino Zero and Sparkfun SAMD21? If yes, how to control the LED display? Otherwise, are there any block-based programming environments for PewPew Standalone, such as EduBlocks?
Thanks!
What would it take to make multiplayer games for PewPew Standalone or M4 using some cheap Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) module, such as HM-10 or CC-2540? Should I just solder one of them to the I/O pins on the bottom? Does CircuitPython BLE module (https://circuitpython.readthedocs.io/projects/ble/en/latest/) support it? Thanks a lot!
