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#1 Fabien Royer

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Posted 27 July 2011 - 04:22 AM

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.


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#2 Chris Walker

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Posted 27 July 2011 - 04:33 AM

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

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Posted 27 July 2011 - 06:16 AM

Wow! Nice! Don't have other words for it :) When do you think the PCB will be available? I would love to write some simple games for it.
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Posted 27 July 2011 - 07:40 AM

P.S. I love the old-school font you're using. Very retro video-game-esque.

#5 Fabien Royer

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Posted 28 July 2011 - 12:57 AM

Thanks guys :)

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.


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#6 Fabien Royer

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Posted 30 July 2011 - 01:16 AM

Our little console was featured on the Make blog today :)
http://blog.makezine...me-console.html


If you're interested in a PCB or a kit to build your own, can you please post a reply to this thread?

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Posted 30 July 2011 - 03:17 AM

you're interested in a PCB or a kit to build your own, can you please post a reply to this thread?

a reply (if affordable ;))
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#8 Fabien Royer

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Posted 30 July 2011 - 04:20 PM

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.

#9 Fabien Royer

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Posted 09 January 2012 - 08:51 PM

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.

Have fun!

Cheers,
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Posted 09 January 2012 - 10:39 PM

Awesome! Glad to see this project is ready! I'm going to order one later this week

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#11 Chris Walker

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Posted 10 January 2012 - 03:03 AM

Oh awesome. I'm going to build mine this weekend! Thanks for building such a cool kit, Fabien! Chris

#12 Fabien Royer

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Posted 10 January 2012 - 03:57 AM

Be sure to post action shots in the forums when you're done :)

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Posted 22 January 2012 - 12:35 AM

Here's my build of the PIX-6T4

http://10rem.net/blo...eld-game-system


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Posted 22 January 2012 - 08:15 PM

Here's my build of the PIX-6T4

http://10rem.net/blo...eld-game-system

Just checked your river raid clone, awesome!
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#15 Chris Walker

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Posted 23 January 2012 - 04:42 AM

I now have more games to play on my PIX-6T4. And I loved that game growing up. Thanks, Pete!

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Posted 23 January 2012 - 04:54 AM

Thanks guys

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:

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Posted 23 January 2012 - 09:14 AM

I now have more games to play on my PIX-6T4. And I loved that game growing up.

I ordered one yesterday and have inspiration for two games. I'm going to make at least one, so the library will grow! ;)
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Posted 23 January 2012 - 12:38 PM

Hmmm....that's giving me an insane idea: hacking the PIX-6T4! Will Fabien be glad about it?
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Posted 23 January 2012 - 12:40 PM

Hmmm....that's giving me an insane idea: hacking the PIX-6T4!
Will Fabien be glad about it?

It's on my todo list for when it's arrived. Don't think Fabien would mind <_<
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#20 Mario Vernari

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Posted 23 January 2012 - 01:13 PM

It's on my todo list for when it's arrived. Don't think Fabien would mind <_<


Where did you order the kit?
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