Portable Tilt-Controlled Video Game Known as Weeboy

Overview

The Weeboy is an advanced portable color tilt-controlled video game system which does not depend on any external power sources or stationary displays.

Details

A single 9V battery is used to operate the Weeboy which features 3 playable games, monophonic sound, and tilt-based control. By combining all the coolest features of the Nintendo Gameboy Color and Nintendo Wii, the name Weeboy was developed. The project shows that a complete portable video game system could be implemented at an affordable price.

The Atmel ATmega32 microcontroller included in the system contains all the code for controlling the system as well as backgrounds along with a font stored in flash memory. The onboard ADC is used to sample the accelerometer as an input to the ATmega32. To check whether the user has tilted the system, the obtained data is used as it translates the direction of the tilt movement in-game. For actions on the menu and in the paint game, two pushbuttons at the front shoulders of the container were made. By sending coordinates and colors to the LCD via the SPI, the display is drawn by the ATmega32 while outputting sound to piezoelectric speaker.