Let me first get something out of the way... I am an embedded nut. I absolutely
love taking a foreign piece of hardware and bringing it to life. My most recent excursion into embedded land has been with a
Nucleo board designed by
STMicroelectronics.
I decided to pair this board with a
Gameduino 2 shield designed for the popular
Arduino. I wrote a driver for the
FT800 graphics processor and implemented
Gabriele Cirulli's 2048 game as a first project with this hardware.
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| 2048 Screenshot |
The result is an awesome device that emulates the fun 2048 browser game (pretty closely, anyway). It will make a great desk ornament for passersby at work to gawk at.
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| Nucleo F4 Board |
In this article I will give you a demonstration of the game and take you through some of the design concepts I have used to come up with this product. I wrote my own linker script, C-Runtime and driver library for this project and it was an awesome experience.
