Hardware

PewPew Lite FeatherWing

PewPew Lite is a shield for the Adafruit Feather series of development boards (a FeatherWing, as they call them). You put it on top of one of their boards, and then program that board (preferably in CircuitPython) to create games and other interactive programs.

Specification
Display 8×8 4-color LED matrix
Input 6 buttons
Sound no sound
Interface 2-wire I²C at address 0x70
Controller Holtek HT16K33
Battery Optional 3.7V 100mAh LiPO (not included)

The shield contains six buttons and an eight-by-eight bi-color LED display, capable of displaying four different colors (black, green, red and yellow). It also includes a HT16K33 chip that handles the display and the buttons, so that you can focus on just writing the code for your game. Optionally, you can add a LiPO battery to it, to make the whole thing into a portable handheld game console. The shield includes a power switch for that battery.

Open Development

This hardware is developed in the open, and all the designs and related materials are publicly available under a permissive license. You are free to inspect how it is build, build your own, improve and extend the design, and even sell your own versions.

The materials are available in the project’s repository.