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A project log for Star Trek X-Ray device

Give fun to your friends with this easily built gadget.

oscar-toledoOscar Toledo 03/02/2017 at 14:420 Comments

Installed Arduino IDE for Mac OS X from http://www.arduino.cc

Discovered the TFT screen I have isn't supported from the box, needed to install MCUFRIEND_kbv using the Sketch/Include Library/Manage Library options and searching for it.

This in turn required the Adafruit GFX library.

For the images I needed to install also sdFat, this proved to be hard to install, this post put me on the right path https://forum.arduino.cc/index.php?topic=384749.0 and then downloaded and installed per the instructions.

Once this compiled I put a sample image of my wife and me, but the program refused to work, it results it only loaded images with "tiger" and ".bmp" in the name, and later also discovered it required it to be from the "/bitmap" directory.

Also discovered that a 2$ USD Power Source I bought in the subway could provide enough power to the system while keeping a high-tech look.

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