GAMBY is a built-it-yourself Arduino shield
(expansion board) kit featuring an LCD, 4-way directional pad, buttons
and speaker in a form factor reminiscent of several classic handheld
video game consoles.
In short, GAMBY is Games for Arduino, Made By You!
GAMBY was designed to use primarily through-hole components. The only
surface mount parts are optional and can even be added later.
GAMBY's design and software is Open Source. All of the code
and design
files are available free of charge. Create your own version of
GAMBY or contribute to the main project.
Does the standard GAMBY hardware not have a feature you want? Add it!
GAMBY's board features dozens of solder pads and other features for
modifying the hardware.
In short, GAMBY is Games for Arduino, Made By You!
- 96x64 pixel monochrome LCD with optional backlighting
- 4-way D-Pad
- 4 Buttons
- Transistor-driven piezo speaker
- Enough extra pads and other board features to allow advanced users to hack the hardware to their heart's content
- Graphics Mode
- Draw lines, shapes and sprites to the screen! Use line and fill patterns, irregularly-shaped bitmaps and more.
- Block Mode
- Draw to the screen as a 24x16 grid of blocks using a palette of 16 tiles, while using less memory than the full graphics mode! Write your own version of a certain famous Russian falling-block game, or even a tiny Rogue-like RPG!
- Text Mode
- Don't need fancy graphics? Display eight rows of up to 27 proportional characters and icons, with automatic scrolling and wrapping! The leanest of GAMBY's modes, you can even use it on an older ATmega168-based Arduino and still have ample memory left for your own code!
