<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/6b3e4880-6793-4ae5-a9d5-68dba7637c03/71C16CE6-3121-4182-99C8-9B3D97336FFE/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.christianmontoya.com/2007/05/07/how-to-build-your-own-weeboy/" href="http://www.christianmontoya.com/2007/05/07/how-to-build-your-own-weeboy/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.christianmontoya.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.christianmontoya.com/2007/05/07/how-to-build-your-own-weeboy/"><P>Let’s say you want to build your own programmable, hand-held video game system, much like I did in <A href="http://lab.christianmontoya.com/weeboy/">my ECE 476 final lab project</A>. Assuming you can understand all the stuff in my project report, here are the instructions you would need to build the physical hardware. Read on if you are a hardware nerd.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.christianmontoya.com/2007/05/07/how-to-build-your-own-weeboy/"><P>What you will need:</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.christianmontoya.com/2007/05/07/how-to-build-your-own-weeboy/"><UL> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A href="http://www.digikey.com/scripts/DkSearch/dksus.dll?Detail?Ref=412578&Row=455253&Site=US">Atmel Mega32 MCU</A> plus some means of programming it</LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Solder board for MCU with 5V voltage regulator, power switch, and LED</LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A href="http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info.php?products_id=569">Nokia 128×128 ripoff LCD & Carrier Board</A></LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">2 large <A href="http://www.allelectronics.com/cgi-bin/item/PB-138/search/SPST_N.O._PUSHBUTTON,_RED_.html">S.P.S.T.N.O. pushbuttons</A></LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">9V Battery (or external power source)</LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Small piezoelectric speaker</LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">MMA6261Q accelerometer from <A href="http://www.freescale.com/">Freescale</A></LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">2 3V regulators</LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">An enclosure, 5.5in x 2.5in x 1.5in (we used a wooden craft box with a glass lid)</LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">A drill (a Dremel tool works just fine)</LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Hot glue, soldering iron, wires, and other hardware nerd equipment</LI> </UL></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.christianmontoya.com/2007/05/07/how-to-build-your-own-weeboy/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.christianmontoya.com/img/2233BE70-B260-4036-B866-8BB3AF995BDC" alt="Shoulder buttons" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.christianmontoya.com/2007/05/07/how-to-build-your-own-weeboy/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.christianmontoya.com/img/B6955CDE-06D9-4164-B9D0-EB8D51776757" alt="The enclosure" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.christianmontoya.com/2007/05/07/how-to-build-your-own-weeboy/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.christianmontoya.com/img/0D153AD4-81B7-43AB-9F07-2C252493CC67" alt="Atmel Mega32 MCU" /></div></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/71C16CE6-3121-4182-99C8-9B3D97336FFE/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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