The audio quality is not the best, some audio tones are lost, but I'm generally the sound quality is pretty decent. Regarding the speaker, it's very difficult to find an affordable SMD speaker that can fit the PCB space, so I've found a buzzer with a good frequency range, which fit properly the PCB size. I think that it's fine to avoid damage to the speaker.
Gameboy colorset driver#
This driver transforms from I2S to ADC, it can be configured to work with mono/stereo sound and the gain is configurable. Finally, regarding the power management, the device has a step-up converter which warranty a constant 3.3v output, this solution avoid dimming on the screen and unstable behavior when the battery is dying. If you don't change the value of the R2 resistor, it could produce damage to the Li-Po battery. This resistor sets the current charge configuration for the TP4056 chip. If you want to use a lower capacity, it's important to change the resistor R2 to use an appropriate value. This gives you the chance to use a higher capacity battery.
Gameboy colorset serial#
So in this PCB version, the connector only works to charge the device and connect to the serial console and see the debug log.Īs you can see in the second photo, I use a standard PH 2.0 connector, to attach the battery. It looks that each manufacturer implements differently the audio through USB-C. I was thinking to give headphones support through the USB-C connector, but I discarded by now the idea, because, I didn't find too much information on an implementation standard. In the next repo you can find a KiCad Project with the schematics and PCB design of the microByte project: 500mAh battery (This gives an autonomy of 6/7 hours playing).8 Inductive buttons with a rubber membrane.
13 onboard buttons connected to TCA9555RTWR mux.On-Board speaker with MAX98357AETE+T I2S audio amplifier.ST7789 IPS 1.3" display with a resolution of 240x240 pixels.HARDWAREįirst, we will start with a general list of hardware characteristics: I'm going to split the specifications of the device into hardware and software to give more details of each one. I will give more details on further points.
Gameboy colorset full#
So, it was clear, this device needs a full SNES gamepad layout with future updates in mind.įinally, apart from gaming, I think that this device can be a very useful tool to develop ESP32 projects, because you can run Arduino Sketch and/or ESP-IDF project binary from the SD Card like an "App", without deleting the main firmware. Well, yes at this moment it's only able to run 8Bit games, but doing a deep search I've found that there are some early ports of SNES emulator and SCRUMV to the ESP32.
On the other hand, you might wonder why add SNES gamepad layout (Direction buttons, 4 action buttons, Start, Select, L, and R trigger.) if it only able to emulate 8Bit games? (The image quality is better on the reality, but it's difficult to capture with the camera) After more than seven months of development, the idea of keychain evolved to a fully functional hand-held console that can emulate:Īll of this in an inferior size to an original GameBoy cartridge and most important you can perfectly read the texts on the game. What if I build a keychain that you can play Pokemon?Īt that moment born the primitive idea of microByte. Back in February, I've received an ST7789 display module, the image and color quality was impressive despite the small size, so one idea comes to mind.
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