[HN Gopher] Show HN: I built a handheld CHIP-8 game console to t...
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Show HN: I built a handheld CHIP-8 game console to teach myself
embedded systems
A while back I wrote a CHIP-8 emulator (which is considered the
Hello, World! of emulators and is more accurately a virtual machine
since historically CHIP-8 was an interpreted language running on
top of the COSMAC VIP to make game programming easier). But a few
months ago I got really interested in embedded software, so decided
it would be neat to port my emulator to a STM32 MCU and design a
console around it as a learning experience, since CHIP-8 never
existed as a physical system. I didn't know much about embedded
software when I began, and even less about electronics, but I
managed to write all the firmware from scratch and even designed my
first PCB, resulting in a finished (though not very polished)
handheld CHIP-8 console. For those curious, the GitHub repo also
has links to my dev blog about the project as well as a build
guide. Thanks for looking!
Author : kurtjd
Score : 13 points
Date : 2022-07-19 21:42 UTC (1 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (github.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (github.com)
| koromak wrote:
| This is so awesome. CHIP-8 was my first big boy program and I
| have super fond memories of writing it, and Ben Eater has really
| convinced me to start learning the hardware stuff. Maybe I'll do
| this some day.
| kurtjd wrote:
| Thank you! Yeah hardware is tricky (and I still have so much to
| learn) but there's something really satisfying about holding a
| thing you designed in your hands that pure software just
| doesn't quite give.
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