My bad 
And…I see, you did beat me there!
I still own the game but haven’t played it for a while 
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Could there be a keyboard hat? With the new loader and possibility to execute programs from RAM I can see uses for a keyboard: terminal emulator, text editor, programming right on Pokitto, local multiplayer, …
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That hat is next on my list.
On friday the components for the joyhats arrived
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That reminds me:
I want to get this working so we have another game to demo the joyhat with.
Also I hope the code I’ve done for it will be a good demonstration of inheritance, why/how inheritance is useful, and how to handle multiple input methods using the same interface (and Liskov substitution/dependency inversion).
@Pharap yep, I’m using mbed AnalogIn for the axis. The mid point was 0.47f but may vary from component to component (I’ve only.tested one so far)
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I was about to suggest the exact same thing, btw I have that game and it still works. It’s in my sp right now.
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I would love to make this sort of game… https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://m.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DSkDjQPzuOpg&ved=2ahUKEwjPpo2MzrDeAhUEBSwKHXY6A0gQwqsBMAV6BAgJEAg&usg=AOvVaw2kCrMY0Bzc4yxN6aTjJ_kX
But I can’t seem to find a suitable way to connect a mouse sensor to pikitto. All I have been able to find d are 5v sensors, does anyone think a regular ps/2 mouse would work on 3.3v?
I’m no expert but I think it would depend on the mouse.
This might be of interest/use:
ideas:
- GPU hat: HW with some chip dedicated to graphics, e.g. fullres hi-color display buffer, true 3D acceleration, FP functions, video acceleration, some small parallelism, … But I have a feeling this wouldn’t be cheap.
- camera hat
- GSM hat
(Seriously though I’d give an arm and a leg for a simple dumbphone running free SW. There still is nothing like that AFAIK 
) - radio communication hat (like walkie talkie)
- GPS hat
(Seriously though I’d give an arm and a leg for a simple dumbphone running free SW. There still is nothing like that AFAIK Wow thanks so much, it’s officially on my list of things to get. The day I get my hands on it my smartphone flies out of the window, not joking 
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I was thinking of getting the MakerPhone or the RePhone by seeedstudio but they only have 2g modems. So for me, in the US, that would mean a lifespan of under 2 years since that’s supposedly when my carrier is going to drop it…
I’m invested in the purism Librem5 as a free open privacy security option. But that’s about as expensive as a mid tier smart phone.
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I know Librem, but as you say it’s expensive and just another bloated phone. I just want something that makes calls and sends messages and saves battery. Such retro phones are around, but none with free SW 
Pokitto phone FTW.
Hmmm good point. If they try to make me force to use their newest bloat phones and buy a new one each year, I swear I’m gonna just start using snail mail… you can probably tell my patience is getting near a breaking point regarding cell phones 
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This would be limited by how fast SPI can go.
It’s plausible, but someone would have to crunch the numbers to make sure it’s going to work.
https://wiki.zerophone.org/index.php/Main_Page
How soon can I expect your limbs to arrive? :P
You’d need a microphone and a speaker as well…
At which point you’ve effectively got an actual walkie talkie attached to the top of your Pokitto, thus you don’t actually need the Pokitto to operate it.
Could be interesting if you want the Pokitto to be like a portable map system, but otherwise the only use I can see for it is trying to make a game like Pokemon Go, and I’m not exactly a fan of Pokemon Go.
I have the exact same phone I had over a decade ago and it still sends texts and makes phone calls.
The only downside is that it doesn’t have much memory, but beyond that it does what I want and I have no need for anything else.
Most of the time I use it more like an alarm clock than a means of communication.
If I got an open source phone I don’t think I’d particularly want to be editing the software, but I’d be glad of the ability to check that I’m not being spied on (to a degree).
(And I’d certainly be glad of the ability to remove the GPS chip.)
Niiice one as well, thank you! But it says smartphone so… maybe only one limb? 
Yeah, not exactly like walkie talkie, that wouldn’t make sense as you say. Maybe sending text messages or something? I admit I didn’t think about this too much
I didn’t say it would be bloated. The point of running true free gnu linux means even if it had apps you don’t want you can just remove them. So bloat isn’t an issue for librem5.
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Hmmm you’re probably right… My reasoning was that I simply don’t need a full featured OS on my phone, with all kinds of processes and daemons and scheduling running in the background and eating my battery… but maybe OS so flexible and hackable as this one might not be such problem in this sense, if configured properly. I’ll have to see some reviews.
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Being open source, it’s as smart as you want it to be - you can always rip features out.
My point exactly.
That said, one of the problems with Linux is that it sometimes makes assumptions about certain facilities being present, so sometimes removing things can cause other things to break because of dependency hell.
You can always kill them off.
I used to sometimes disable superfetch and the spooling service on my old laptop when I needed to save some processing power.
Could just use bluetooth for that.
Radio would only be an advantage if it used less power or if you could pick up radio stations (but that depends on the quality of the Pokitto’s sound).
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