Hugo Dewijngaert

Birdie Crash

Arduino Leonardo with Headers

Arduino IDE

<p >This is the story behind &#34;Birdie Crash&#34;. It's a &#34;Flying Tickets / Flappy Tickets&#34; clone I’ve written in Android, but I could never finish this project without making use of an Arduino (I know: the game most probably violates several copyrights, trademarks and patents, but I made this game for my personal enjoyment only).  </p><p >Since my kids were pretty impressed by the original game in our local arcades, I decided to make my own &#34;table top&#34; version. Not as big as the real stuff - something a bit more portable and only for one player - but still reflecting the original gameplay. </p><p >The entire setup is based around a Salora 22LED1500 TV (the cheapest 22&#34; HD TV I could find), a cheap Android 4.4 stick (an MK808B Plus), a big yellow arcade button... and an Arduino Leonardo. </p><p >The Leonardo gets its power from a USB port on the HDMI Android stick and acts as a keyboard interface to the Android HDMI stick. The Arduino sends out a keystroke as soon as someone presses the button to make the bird jump. I’ve seen people struggle with the serial interface to do this, but this is a much simpler solution. The LED strip animations on both sides of the screen and the blinking led inside the button are managed by the Arduino as well. </p><p >A demo of the setup can be seen on YouTube: </p><div class="se-component se-video-container __se__float-none" contenteditable="false" style="width: 100%;"><figure style="width: 100%; height: 56.25%; padding-bottom: 56.25%; margin: 0px;"><iframe frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/vngD3e1dBbA" data-proportion="true" data-percentage="100%,56.25%" data-size="100%,56.25%" data-align="none" style="width: 100%; height: 100%;" data-index="0" data-file-size="0" data-origin="100%,56.25%"></iframe></figure></div><p ><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vngD3e1dBbA"> </a></p>

Birdie Crash

Using an Arduino Leonardo as a component in a funny arcade game clone of Flappy Bird.