With the entire hoopla surrounding interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, there has by no means been a greater time to brush up in your alien-blasting abilities. Positive, it’s virtually actually an abnormal comet. However why take an opportunity? If that “comet” seems to be an advance scout for Xur and the Ko-Dan armada, we don’t need to be caught off guard.
Nevertheless, whereas Starship could also be advancing quickly, spaceships with laser blasters are nonetheless fairly arduous to return by for people who need to get some goal apply. Happily, now you can blast a pixelated military of enemy aliens utilizing the Raspberry Pi Pico 2 that you simply in all probability have already got. Hobbyist Mikhail Ilin has created a clone of House Invaders for the Pico that is named Pico Invaders. All you could make it’s a Raspberry Pi Pico 2, a 128×64 OLED show, and a rotary encoder.
Get ’em! (📷: Mikhail Ilin)
It ought to come as no shock {that a} House Invaders clone can run on the Raspberry Pi Pico 2, contemplating that the unique sport ran on the extremely modest assets of an Atari 2600 over 45 years in the past. However although the {hardware} can simply deal with the job, and the circuit is straightforward, there’s nonetheless the not-so-small matter of writing the code.
The excellent news is that you needn’t be involved about that half. Ilin has performed the work and made it accessible on GitHub. There are additionally directions for programming the board and enjoying the sport. What are you ready for? Earth is relying on you!
