Codepope's Development Hell

So, what do you do with old Pi projects? I had a Pimoroni Keybow on the side and thanks to RedRobotics’ tiny Pico2Pi board, I had the chance to breathe life back into it by replacing the controller board. Drawing back the Keybow Back in the day, the original Keybow was an interesting little beastie. A 3x4 keyboard of clicky switches with RGB LEDs as a compact keyboard; add your own Raspberry Pi Zero underneath and use a bare metal Lua implementation to configure the keyboard to send codes.

The Dazzler boards have arrived in my Development Hell. These boards, from James Bowman’s Excamera, are a continuation of the Gameduino family of devices which strapped a GPU and a Touchscreen to an Arduino to make a more than functional, graphically rich hand held games device. With the Dazzler, James has taken the Gameduino-3X GPU and moved it to a standalone board which also has an FPGA programmed up to manage more of the work and generate an HDMI signal.

So I’ve been having a little bit of a hack (at HackWimbledon) on the Adafruit Clue alpha and having some of Elecfreaks Joystick:bits to hand I thought I’d get them working together. The Joystick:bit has been replaced by a version 2. Apart from anything else, all the supporting code and libraries (what little there were) have been updated for the new Joystick:bit. Which is a pain as the original has the oddest buttons you’ve ever seen.