Can anybody help me program and connect the following:



To make the following playable:

 

That's an ambitious project. How far have you got putting it together? What code are you using?

 

You must be joking!

 

That's an ambitious project. How far have you got putting it together? What code are you using?

I only just bought the items that is all. I am a noob. Should I use Arduino or Pi ?

 

I doubt it will fit in a Nano, you'll need the Pi.

 

I doubt it will fit in a Nano, you'll need the Pi.

Thanks. How do you communicate with the P4 led modules ?

 

Photographs are almost but not quite completely different from datasheets. If you have any hope of getting good advice it will be because you provided datahsheets for the uncommon parts.

 

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005005211586960.html

Data interface: HUB75

 

It would be a good idea to start with a less ambitious project in order to gain experience. Get an Arduino board and a 2x16 LCD character display and play with that.

 

It would be a good idea to start with a less ambitious project in order to gain experience. Get an Arduino board and a 2x16 LCD character display and play with that.

Too late, sorry

 

Too late, sorry

Too late for what?
It is never too late to learn something new.
In my old age, I am learning to speak French and Spanish.

 

How do you communicate with the P4 led modules ?

It seems the HUB75 interface is commonly implemented, so should be easy enough to code, if you can't find an applicable library.

EG: https://www.hackster.io/aleksand1975/hub75-led-display-driver-777bac#toc-hub75-interface-2

 

Too late, sorry

How much experience do you have with programming? Which languages?

 

How much experience do you have with programming? Which languages?

Linux, C#, java, python

 

Linux, C#, java, python

Linux is not a programming language. I also asked:

How much experience do you have with programming? Which languages?

 

Linux is not a programming language. I also asked:

Novice

 

Novice

So, I must admit to confusion here. I find this on your profile:

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I also can’t understand how you can expect to complete this project without someone effectively doing it for you. My advice is to break this project into pieces and use those pieces to learn enough to possibly tackle the whole thing.

Start with the nano and do a few beginnger tutorials,
then try using it to drive your display modules,
then connect the joystick to the nano and have the stick make the display do something,
then try to use the RPi to drive the display (this is a completely different thing than the nano),
then connect the joystick to the RPi like you did the nano,
then make the RPi do video on the display.

By the time you‘ve done these things you will be much more capable and informed. Becasue of this you may be much less interested in tackling the original game idea until you are even more capable and informed.

I fear that your ignorance is one of the reasons you imagine you can succeed at something as complicated as the game at your level of knowledge and skill—even with help (save a step-by-step how-to and intensive troubleshooting assistance, which isn’t any more “building it” than paint by numbers is painting the picture.

 

So, I must admit to confusion here. I find this on your profile:

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I also can’t understand how you can expect to complete this project without someone effectively doing it for you. My advice is to break this project how into pieces and use those pieces to learn enough to possibly tackle the whole thing.

Start with the nano and do a few beginnger tutorials,
then try using it to drive your display modules,
then connect the joystick to the nano and have the stick make the display do something,
then try to use the RPi to drive the display (this is a completely different thing than the nano),
then connect the joystick to the RPi like you did the nano,
then make the RPi do video on the display.

By the time you‘ve done these things you will be much more capable and informed. Becasue of this you may be much less interested in tackling the original game idea until you are even more capable and informed.

I fear that your ignorance is one of the reasons you imagine you cab succeed at something as complicated as the game at your level of knowledge and skill—even with help (save a step-by-step how-to and intensive troubleshooting assistance, which isn’t any more “building it” than paint by numbers is painting the picture.

If they could do it in the 80's I assume it is not so difficult. I guess it is mostly bitmap copying and a loop.

 

If they could do it in the 80's I assume it is not so difficult. I guess it is mostly bitmap copying.

The people “doing it in the 80s” were competent and experienced engineers. Do you actually think that because you were born later you are more capabe of doing things than they were?

It is not a matter of the hardware‘s capabilities, it’s about your capabilities.

 

Don't listen to the nay-sayers. If you are prepared to do a lot of reading and googling you will be able to make progress, and you will learn a great deal.