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Over the past few months, my friend Bertrand and I have been working on a game console, the PIX-6T4, which is powered by a Netduino mini.The console is designed as platform for learning digital electronics and C#: we're in the process of writing a book covering all aspects of building the console, how its components work and how to write games for it with our framework.
Here's a video of the prototype of the console below:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87y1o3YzhsY
and here, as we presented it during the Ask An Engineer Show-And-Tell run by AdaFruit on Google+ last weekend:
http://vimeo.com/26943990
As always, it's entirely open source / open hardware and we hope that you'll have as much fun building your own and making games as we did. You'll soon be able to find more details here.
Fabien (and Bertrand), you keep outdoing yourself. I’m so excited to see this live and running.
We need to have one of these to show off at MakerFaire NY!
I'm sitting on an airplane right now wishing I had one to play.
Chris
We need to have one of these to show off at MakerFaire NY!
That can be arranged ;-) I'll email you to work out the details. Regarding the availability of the PCBs: we're in the process of designing them right now. I would expect to have a first batch by the end of August if not sooner.
The goal is to make it as affordable as possible: I haven't figured out the cost with volume orders yet but I'll post shortly about the cost of building the prototype with links to the components.
Cheers,
-Fabien.
Hi,
It took a bit longer than expected, but the PIX-6T4 has finally graduated from 'prototype' to 'kit'
Head over to http://www.pix6t4.com/ for a step-by-step video tutorial and docs on how to assemble it.
Pete Brown - http://10rem.net (NETMF, C++, Windows, C64, and general geekery) Twitter: @pete_brown I work for Microsoft. Opinions expressed here are my own and do not necessarily reflect those of my employer,our partners or customers.
That game goes from insanely simple to ... insane. I think I need to tighten up the gameplay, or let others do it
I love what Fabien and Bertrand have built, and I love that I already had all the right tools, SDKs, and skills to write stuff for it. Do an RGB 16x16 one next!
Here's the video of the game, for anyone who hasn't yet seen it:
Pete
Pete Brown - http://10rem.net (NETMF, C++, Windows, C64, and general geekery) Twitter: @pete_brown I work for Microsoft. Opinions expressed here are my own and do not necessarily reflect those of my employer,our partners or customers.