Portable game console with LCD

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Im a programmer but have little hardware experience and am only just dipping my toes, so I wanted to run my idea by you guys.

My plan is to connect a nokia 6100 / 6101 LCD breakout board with my arduino and a gyro + accelerometer and then program some simple games that utilize the gyro for control input.

I am just wondering if this kind of thing is possible with the arduino and if it has enough processing power? I have seen a few game gadgets that have tv output to display the graphics but I havent seen much with LCD displays.

Also if the arduino is not powerful enough to handle this, would it be possible to acheive by interfacing 2 arduinos? One handling the LCD and one handling the game logic?

Thanks for any advice!

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Have a look here - r0d0t's stuff

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Wow thats so weird because thats even the same game that I was picturing (doodle jump).

So I guess the reason hes using basic graphics is because there isnt much memory space to load bitmap sprites into?

Would it be feasable to use a ram sheild for example fram: Arduino Shield List: SWFLTEK FRAM Shield

to load bitmaps from the sdcard to the fram to render to the LCD?

are there any other ram options with arduino uno?

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Hi
Can't you put the bitmaps into progmem ?

Here is something else that might be of interest, it has some vectored graphics and some others that look like bitmaps -

Duane B

rcarduino.blogspot.com

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I checked the source for the gameduino project and they seem to store the sprites in ProgMem like you said.

Would that be a slower method than SRam? Would SRam be preferable if enough were available?

Also how quickly would I be able to refresh a colour lcd screen. Would this depend on how much processing power were available? So if I upped it for example by using multiple arduinos with an i2c would I be able to refresh the screen faster?