Two months ago I used to live off-campus near Penn State's main University Park campus. My apartment was full of art students, with myself being the only non-art student. I decided to combine my knowledge with my roommate's experience to create a real-time demo project using an Arduino and Gameduino. In essence my goal was to make something similar to a demo (read more via Wikipedia) fulfilling the requirements of: a unique graphics output, all computed at real-time, using only the Arduino processor and the Gameduino VGA output of 400x300 pixels. This project was quite a challenge as I was using an Arduino Uno which comes with one ATmega328: 16Mhz embedded processor with 2KB ram and 32KB programming memory!
Here is my result, recorded via camera (sorry, I had no in-line recording system for a VGA cable) and uploaded to YouTube. The demo lasts just short of two minutes. The final code compiles to about 27218 Bytes (~26KB) and includes a dozen effects: plasma, nyan cats, fun spirals, 3D cubes, pseudo cellular automaton, and a Portal 2 reference.
Learn more on Cores2.com
Do you know any Pinoy demosceners? Anyone near Manila?
fcycles 2 months ago