Flash cart(ridge)

[Mr.Blinky]

@bateske is planning a Kickstarter late this year that includes pre modified Arduboys.

For people who do like tinkering with their Arduboy’s I still have a few backplates and flashcarts (parts or prebuild)

[User5115]

what ever happened to the plans for the other arduboys

[bateske (Kevin)]

What other arduboys?

[User5115]

I remember there was discussion about like an Arduboy Zero or something a few years ago

[bateske (Kevin)]

Development Ends

People have taken massive dumps on every idea I’ve had to come up with a new version of the Arduboy so I’ve officially given up. Everyone wants something a little different and there is no way to make everyone happy. It’s clear to me now that the original Arduboy success was a fluke due to the media attention it received. There is no clear way to sell 10,000 units of a new product, which is the minimum number required to start production. A majority of the customers did not want to use it as de…

[Pharap]

@User5115

Arduboy Zero

Maybe you’re thinking of one of these?

My Arduino Zero based system - The next generation Arduboy?

I’ve mentioned previously that I think it would be a good idea to base the next version of the Arduboy on the Arduino/Genuino Zero. This would give a good improvement on speed, flash and RAM while remaining compatible with a standard Arduino product, for ease of development. I bought a SparkFun SAMD21 Mini Breakout to experiment with. This product uses the same ATSAMD21G18 processor as the Zero and can use the same libraries in the Arduino IDE. Other than the processor, the system that I built …

Arduboy ZERO new version

We are looking at producing some developer kits that will probably be shields for the Arduino Zero until we have the bootloader/SD software figured out. Now we finally have some time on our hands after shipping ALL of our pre-orders! Wow it feels good to be done with 3 years worth of work! Time to design something new…

Arduboy Zero Buffer Format

I wanted to get opinions on the display buffer for the next Arduboy. If it does have the same screen but the M0+ chip, I’m wondering if it would be worth updating the buffer and image formats to be 2 bits per pixel. In the buffer this would allow grey scale and the timing of refresh could be independent of game frame rate. The flickering effect of gray is not all that noticeable with small amounts of gray on the current device. It would I think add a lot to depth of character design. Currently…

As far as I’m aware, there was never an official plan to name anything ‘Arduboy Zero’.
There’s only ever been speculation and discussion.

There are plans to possibly create an “Arduboy FX”,
which is more or less a regular Arduboy with an added flash memory chip.

[bateske (Kevin)]

I was thinking to make arduboy into a arduino shield so you could use whatever dev kit you wanted, that’s still probably a good idea.

[MLXXXp (Scott)]

@bateske

so you could use whatever dev kit you wanted

That’s not necessarily easy. Even though the pin numbers will be the same for all shield compatible boards, some processors may not have the desired features available for those pins. For example no PWM or PWM mapped to an undesirable timer/counter.

Similar to why we changed some pin mappings between the Arduboy Dev-Kit and the production Arduboy, you want to carefully consider what pins you use for each function, based on the what can be done with those pins for a particular microprocessor.

However, I guess you could wire the shield with one type of board in mind but have each pin trace to the headers include a pair of holes with a thin trace between the holes. That way you could cut the thin connecting traces as necessary and reassign the pinout using jumper wires soldered in the holes. For experimentation, you could even solder header pins into the holes and use female “Dupont” jumpers to wire them.

[User5115]

i just wish I could store more games on the arduboy, there’s a load of games available but due to hardware limitations they don’t have a lot of substance. being able to hold multiple would be awesome

[ArduDog]

Hey does anyone know how to print the custom Flash cartridge PCB

[bateske (Kevin)]

It’s based on this:

Flash cart(ridge)

I start this thread as a place holder for the Arduboy flash cart project that I’m working on. Like many others I also fancy playing multiple games on the go. @eried made an awesome looking Arduboy dock to be able to do that and many would love to see SD card support. I gave this a thought too but decided to go for a more console-ish approach: a (game) flash cart. Not just for a more authentic feel but also because flash is faster and easier to handle for Arduboy than SD cards. What is this f…

[CDR_Xavier]

Hey, uh …
I think I am definitely late to this. But while I am drawing the PCB myself I found out a (potentially) crucial flaw:
The current flash cart(ridge) connector does not have a CS pin.
So what I did (on my instance) is to use the NC pin, and connect it to D2.

[Mr.Blinky]

@CDR_Xavier

The current flash cart(ridge) connector does not have a CS pin.
So what I did (on my instance) is to use the NC pin, and connect it to D2.

You know, RX and D2 are the same thing

[MLXXXp (Scott)]

@CDR_Xavier

is to use the NC pin

The formerly NC pin has been assigned to A5.

[CDR_Xavier]

RX is D0 and Tx is D1.
That is, depend on which board you are using as reference.

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@MLXXXp

The formerly NC pin has been assigned to A5.

Initially I agreed upon the idea of a analog input pin, but I feel like a chip select for the breakout SPI is more important.

[MLXXXp (Scott)]

@CDR_Xavier

but I feel like a chip select for the breakout SPI is more important.

Any pin can be used as an SPI chip select including A5. The dedicated SPI SS pin is used by the Arduboy for the USB RXLED.

[Mr.Blinky]

Okay I now understand that with ‘D2’ you ment digital pin 2.

Note that digital pin 2 is connected to the same pin as SDA ( They are both connected to Port D Bit 1 )

[CDR_Xavier]

@Mr.Blinky

digital pin 2.

Sort of. There are multiple ways to call each one of them, depend on which one you are looking at (e.g. from the microcontroller’s pinout perspective or the Arduino’s pin function perspective).

[Mypka_MaxCat (Maxim Galaychuk)]

Late reply, but I forgot to ask about the label size.
Hello again!