Oscilloscope, the eye of an electronics engineer, is not less than a heart beat monitor for several electronic gadgets. A heavy output device with a small screen, sounds like an old mammoth sized gaming console, no? How about using the oscilloscope for playing games? No, not weightlifting, but video games!!
TI’s much known MSP 430 series shows off its power here. Legendary game spaceship relives its digital moments in this electronic project. Bundle up a couple of joysticks and stay glued to the oscilloscope screen to play the game in amazing fluorescent background.
This CRO customization project is not a measure of power saving feature for which the MSP is well known, instead this puts the applicative part of it under spotlight. Customizing an oscilloscope for gaming isn’t a simple task and requires some serious expertise in terms of coding as well as interfacing. All this, when achieved with MSP, gives a detailed insight on how amazing applicative scenarios can be met with it.
Explained as a test project in its wiki page, Spacewar on oscilloscope might be a milestone in journey on how MSP takes fun to the next level. What other games are you plant on the CRO screen?
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