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[[category: Arduino Tutorials]]
[[category: DIY Hobby Kits]]

Retro games are cool! The pixel games like tetris, ping-pong, snake etc., are fun to play with physical buttons instead of a touch screen. In this tutorial, we will build a Retro gaming console with super bright Red led matrices, a Joystick and a ATmega328 (with Arduino Uno bootloader.  The fun part is not just building it writing/porting pixel games! So let's get started. 

=Schematic=
[[File:matrixGame_sch.jpg]]

=The build=
==Soldering==

Solder all the parts shown above as per the schematic. Easier said than done. It took about 2 hours, to solder the parts for me. Let me know in the comments how well it went for you!

[[File:matrixGame_1.JPG]]

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==Acrylic Case==

=Code=
The code varies greatly for each game. You can download the code for all the games from the download section.  If you've a specific question about the code, please do comment below.

=Downloads=
* [https://github.com/ExploreEmbedded/matrixGame GitHub repository]
* [https://github.com/ExploreEmbedded/matrixGame/archive/master.zip Zipped download containing pdf schematic, and code for all the games.] 


=Credits and References=  

* [https://www.zolalab.com.br/eletronica_projetos/pong2.php Ping Ping code by Zola labs]
* [https://github.com/mtbnunu/arduino-tetris/blob/master/tetrisv2.ino Tetris by Jae Yeong Bae]
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