Dino game

Firmware for Atmega8A microcontroller: the Chrome-style Dino runner game on a Nokia 5110 (PCD8544) 84x48 LCD. The high score is stored in EEPROM.

Build

Requires gcc-avr and avr-libc:

sudo apt-get install -y gcc-avr avr-libc

1. Set up your frequency in freq.h, now it's 10 MHz
2. Build project: make (produces dist/out.hex and dist/eep.hex, prints a size report)
3. Upload firmware: make upload (avrdude with a USBasp programmer)
4. Configure external crystal oscillator with updating fuse bytes

Tests

Host-side unit tests for the game logic (no AVR toolchain required):

make test

Notes

Controls

• PD1 button — jump / start game (hold on the start screen to reset the high score)
• PD7 button — toggle LCD backlight (LED on PB0)

img_maker

If you want to generate custom hero or barrier use ./img_maker

1. Install dependencies:

• Pillow
• Python3

2. Run python3 ./img_maker/index.py YOUR_IMAGE.png
3. Past generated code to dino/dino.c DINO_PIC or BARRIER_PIC

Board

Schematic