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Rainbowduino Snake Game

by seeedstudio on June 6, 2012

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Intro: Rainbowduino Snake Game . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Step 1: Software upload . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Step 2: Hardware Hook-up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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http://www.instructables.com/id/Rainbowduino-Snake-Game/

Intro: Rainbowduino Snake Game

Did you miss the games we used to play when we were little kids?
The Snake Game is one of the games that remind us of our sweet childhood. Want to relive the joy of this game?
We built a snake game with rainbowduino. Here is the finished project we made:

Now lets make a snake game console together.

First of all, you need following materials:
1. Rainbowduino LED Driver Platform
2. 60mm Square 8*8 LED Matrix - Super Bright RGB
3. Thumb Joystick
4. Grove Cables
5. Jumper Wires
They are shown in the same sequencing from #2 pic to #6 pic of this step.

Image Notes
1. Rainbowduino is an Arduino based controller disigned for LED matrix or
cube display.

Image Notes
1. we chose a super light RGB matrix. if you have your preference, go on and
change it into what you like.

http://www.instructables.com/id/Rainbowduino-Snake-Game/

Image Notes
1. joystick is always full of joy.

Image Notes
1. Grove cables. allow us to easily utilize plug-and-play Grove gadgets.

Image Notes
1. jumper wires or breadboard wires is always a must for connections.

Step 1: Software upload

Download the library from Rainbowduino wiki page and decompress it to the library of Arduino IDE1.0
..\arduino-1.0-rc2\libraries
Open the required sketch via this path: File --> Examples --> SnakeGame --> Withjoystick.
Rainbowduino features an Atmega328 chip onboard, so choose Atmega328 in the pull-down menu of Tools --> Board and its corresponding serial port. Now upload the
program to Rainbowduino.

Image Notes
1. rainbowduino features an ATmage328 chip.

Image Notes
1. select the snake game sketch from the library.

http://www.instructables.com/id/Rainbowduino-Snake-Game/

Step 2: Hardware Hook-up

Mount the 8x8 LED matrix onto Rainbowduino.
Their footprints are compatible, so it's effortless to connect them.
Then connect the joystick to the board.
The joystick we use is a Grove element and have four pins.
Put the joystick ahead of you like pic 2.
From left to right, these pins should go to A0, A1, VCC and GND on Rainbowduino.
Till now, the hardware part is already finished.
No steps more required. Enjoy the game now~

Image Notes
1. Mount the matrix onto the Rainbowduino 3.0 board. Their footprints are
compatible.

Image Notes

http://www.instructables.com/id/Rainbowduino-Snake-Game/

1. That's how the device looks like after connecting the joystick.
Image Notes
1. From left to right, these pins go to A0, A1, VCC and GND on Rainbowduino.

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