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Post : Put your dev board to work as a demoscene display
URL : http://hackaday.com/2012/11/14/put-your-dev-board-to-work-as-a-demoscene-display/
Posted : November 14, 2012 at 11:01 am
Author : Mike Szczys
Tags : chipkit, demoscene
Categories : Microcontrollers

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If you're looking for a way to push your comfort zone with that slick new microcontroller you've been working with we think [Morgan Gangwere] has the answer. He took his chipKit development board and used it as a demoscene platform (http://quelab.net/wordpress/1829/demoscene-hack-with-the-chipkit/) .

Demoscene refers to audio and visual demos written to squeeze as much entertainment out of a given platform as possible. We've seen demos for a lot of different platforms; for instance, here's a Propeller chip demo (http://hackaday.com/2012/05/09/music-visualization-generator-with-a-propeller/) . But this use of the onboard OLED screen brings a smile to our faces. With well under 100 lines of code [Morgan] implemented several different video effects (the music heard in the clip after the break is not being produced by the board). There is a star field which serves as the background. Over the top of it a scrolling message is displayed following a sine wave shape. The speed at which it scrolls is set by the trimpot, which you can see adjusted about 50 seconds into the clip.

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