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Sounds like one of the pins that is connected to VCC is shorted against the ground plane. It can be any of the pins highlighted in the diagram here:
http://nootropicdesign.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=2486Try removing some solder from each of these pins, and test continuity between the voltage regulator output and ground (two rightmost pins as viewed from top). The short is not necessarily at the voltage regulator — it can be at any of the other pins, too.
There’s probably a bit of excess solder shorting against a tiny bit of exposed copper around a pad. Sometimes copper can be exposed if the solder mask is burned away during soldering. This problem can often be fixed with a little work. Good luck and tell us your results!
Some TV channels seem to intermix the data like that. You should try tuning the pots a bit, or try finding the CC data on a different line.
Hmm. I’m not sure what is wrong, your settings look correct.
Have you tried removing the ATmega328 chip and inserting it into an Arduino to upload to it?
PayPal is declining your card. There is nothing nootropic design can do about that issue. We regularly sell and ship all over the world, including India.
The Defusable Clock code is all open source and available on the web site.
http://nootropicdesign.com/defusableclock/hack.htmlYou can read data from the Serial line using the pollserial implementation that comes with the TVout library. This way you can display data from a computer to the screen.
See this example of how to read from serial and print to screen:
http://code.google.com/p/arduino-tvout/wiki/EX2Are you simply asking how to display things on the video output signal? Have you looked at this project:
http://nootropicdesign.com/projectlab/2011/03/20/text-and-graphics-overlay/Yes, these types of modifications can be done by changing the code. Have you studied the code? It is downloadable from here: http://nootropicdesign.com/defusableclock/hack.html
This is the bit of code that controls what happens when the device is defused or not.
if (!defused) {
detonate();
} else {
beep(4500, 80);
delay(2000);
displayCountdown = false;
}Well, you could do that, but I’m not sure what you think you can do on the ChipKit that you can’t do on a Mega. The Video Experimenter doesn’t work on a Mega, but can work on a Seeeduino Mega.
See this: http://nootropicdesign.com/projectlab/2011/07/13/ve-on-the-seeeduino-mega/What “video processing” do you want to do? Why do you need a faster processor?
Rewriting the TVout library for PIC microcontrollers is no small task, even for a seasoned programmer. I’m afraid I don’t have any PIC assembly experience, so I’m not the right guy.
In theory an LM1881 chip should be usable with the UNO32, but as you said, the wiring would be different. Not sure if the wiring can be changed to make the shield work on it.
My “testing team” has taken a look at this and they like it. I think it’s cool. It seems like Poofy can jump pretty high, but maybe he could jump a little farther horizontally. I think your collision detection is fine — bounding box is simple.
Game play seems good — great game! You are pushing the limits of what can be done on such a small MCU.Hmm, it looks like it requires 12V to operate. The ATmega328 output pins are 5V. I suppose you could have an output pin control a transistor which controls the relay.
The behavior can be easily changed with reprogramming. If you have an FTDI USB to serial cable or adapter, it’s fairly easy. I could make the code changes for you.
OR, if you are willing to pay a nominal fee (say, $7 if you are in the US) I can ship you a reprogrammed ATmega328 chip with no randomness. If you are overseas, I’d need to charge more for shipping.
