In this episode we will add in the players tank and give them the ability to control it in the left or right direction. This will require some buttons putting onto our board. First the full source code (expand and copy as required). Once compiled and uploaded to your Arduino the display should look like this: So the first addition.....

Here we animate the Invaders and get them moving. Available on this web site as a written tutorial here and below as a Youtube video......

In episode 3 we move onto making the Invaders move left to right and back again across the screen dropping down nearer to your player tank in every pass. We'll also introduce their animation. This episode is also available to view on line below: The full code is shown below (click to expand as it is quite large). We've.....

Part two of the Space Invaders Arduino coding is now available as both a web page and video. Here we look at storing and creating graphics in an Arduino program and displaying several at once on an OLED display. Available from the menus above or from clicking here. If you prefer (or in addition to the web page) there is.....

In this episode we'll look at plotting several Aliens on screen, moving and animating them. If you've not seen the first episode then it would be a good idea to look back at that one (see the menus above). If you've not set up and got your OLED screen working then you need to look at the page for setting that.....

The opening part for Space Invaders is now available. It explains how to get text and more importantly graphics into you code and displayed along with some basic movement. Click below or use the menus above Space Invaders Part 1 It's also available as a video guide on the XTronical YouTube channel........

Setting up an OLED with an Arduino has been added to the "Basics" section. This supports the Video Blog uploaded earlier. Web Guide Video Blog.....

Note : This article has been amended since the original video (30-08-19)  and will no longer match exactly what you see. This is due to changes over the years to the Adafruit driver software, to the point where the video and article are not perfect matches to what now see. The article below however better matches the current Adafruit libraries. .....

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Teaser Trailer for the up-coming series on coding a Space Invaders clone on an Arduino with a 128x64 OLED. See Project pages or directly here :  Space Invaders.....