This module will investigate creating an interactive side-scrolling game using an Arduino. It will also provide experience with advanced usage of the 16x2 LCD screen and its scrolling capabilities.

The Arduino is an excellent first embedded development kit, provides a great introduction to electronics, and has the potential to get children into programming.

[Tobie Nortje] sure remembers them and has built an Arduino controller to play virtual versions of the games. He started off by finding a website that is digitizing the old games.

Others have created Arduino-based handheld gaming consoles in the past, but doing so involved a lot more hardware hacking than you’ll have to do with the Esplora pre-configuration, which comes ...

Created by TrevorB23 the awesome game includes an LCD readout as well as flashing LEDs and more. If you fancy building your very own TrevorB23 has kindly provided an extensive explanation together ...

As promised in the first part of this article, now it is time to see in detail how we can use the Alphanumeric LCD Display in our Arduino sketches. The idea beside this project is to give a simple ...

The Pong Arcade game is equipped with a ATMEGA328 and the screen of the game has been provided by a Nokia 5110 LCD. Watch the video after the jump to learn more about the tiny Pong Arcade Game ...