Voltaire Surge: Life, life uhh... finds a way of getting in the way. Actually what has been taking my time is getting my VR room up and running. VR exercise is my method for keeping my back in action. When my back hurts I don't want to do anything at all, so it was important to get it so I can jump into VR as easy as getting on a exercise machine. I still need to paint the room, but it is coming together.
I am done playing Fallout 76, at least until a patch or twelve. And some time was lost to Hitman 2. I did a 100% run of Hitman 1, but I don't think I will for Hitman 2, they made the number of sub-missions huge for each map.
Qumair84:
The LCD screen is the biggest electronics unknown right now. I have a working screen, and it can be purchased from China. However, driving the screen from a Pi requires a custom driver which is theoretically possible, but so far I haven't seen anyone drive any other unoffical DSI type display from a Pi.
So as a backup plan, I have a cheaper parallel LCD type display. At 3.5" and 640x480 it won't be as accurate as the AMOLED display, but it would be more straight forward to wire up, and a proven method.
However, wiring a parallel LCD to a Pi requires a ton of I/O Pins. Almost every pin on a Pi Zero would be required. So I can stick to the more pin dense CM3, or use a MSP430 as a sub-processor and pin extender.
Currently I am leaning towards using the MSP430, as any circuits and software I design for it can be re-used in other projects. For example, in making a Radiation King radio. In theory the MSP430 circuits could be used to make a dumbed down version without the LCD screen.
I am done playing Fallout 76, at least until a patch or twelve. And some time was lost to Hitman 2. I did a 100% run of Hitman 1, but I don't think I will for Hitman 2, they made the number of sub-missions huge for each map.
Qumair84:
The LCD screen is the biggest electronics unknown right now. I have a working screen, and it can be purchased from China. However, driving the screen from a Pi requires a custom driver which is theoretically possible, but so far I haven't seen anyone drive any other unoffical DSI type display from a Pi.
So as a backup plan, I have a cheaper parallel LCD type display. At 3.5" and 640x480 it won't be as accurate as the AMOLED display, but it would be more straight forward to wire up, and a proven method.
However, wiring a parallel LCD to a Pi requires a ton of I/O Pins. Almost every pin on a Pi Zero would be required. So I can stick to the more pin dense CM3, or use a MSP430 as a sub-processor and pin extender.
Currently I am leaning towards using the MSP430, as any circuits and software I design for it can be re-used in other projects. For example, in making a Radiation King radio. In theory the MSP430 circuits could be used to make a dumbed down version without the LCD screen.