Welcome to Acorn's Gadget Resources Page!

Presentation and slides from Game Control Summit

• Gadgets for Games presentation (video)
• gamegadgets.pdf (slides)
• GC Summit 2008 (web page with other presentations)

Microchip PIC 18f2520 Microcontroller

• http://www.microchip.com
• Pic 18f2520 data sheet

MPLAB software (download for free)

Go to MPLAB Page or go to http://www.microchip.com and click Products->Development tools->MPLAB Integrated Development Environment to download the assembler and simulator (no cost).

Pic Flash programmer

Go to http://www.microchip.com and search for 'Picstart Plus' to buy the "PICSTART Plus" pic programmer.

Buy PIC 18f2520

• Search for '18f2520' on http://www.newark.com to buy for $3.81
• Search for '18f2520' on http://digikey.com to buy for $7.28
• Serch for '18f2520' on http://www.microchip.com tand click on "Pricing & Samples" to get free samples.

Hello World project

• The software: hello.asm
• The hardware: hello.png

Projects from games

• Gadgets of Justice Unlimited
• Hogwarts and the Draconian Prophecy Wand Page

PCB (Printed Circuit Boards)

• Download PCB Program (for Unix/linux)
• http://apcircuits.com Alberta Printed Ciruits - low cost (and fast) PCB manufacter. Prophecy Wand Page

Other game resources

• http://www.snout.org/Game