10 (red 
) boards should arrive tomorrow! I know what I’ll be doing tomorrow evening.
I’ve been a design engineer all my life. Started with schematic capture and PCB design on MS-DOS, a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away…
As a teaser, I am actually working on a MAKERbuino with integrated composite video. So basically combining both circuits on a single board. And I’ve replaced the 4 switches with a 4 directional miniature joystick. I’ll make a new thread when I am ready to order the boards.
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Got one assembled and it is working. Next thing is to see if I can use the #SS pin of the SPI bus to distinguish between data sent to the LCD and data sent to the SD card. These share the same pins that this board is also using. But so far so good!
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I like it. A suggstion. You may have add 3 holes to fix a little pcb protection maybe, ad the card i near from whee you hand the console.
Thanks. Ah, you mean to prevent touching the board and accidentally pressing the reset button?
That could be done I guess. But then you would have to use wires to connect it to the ISP connector. Now it just plugs straight in. Or did I misunderstand your question?
No i like the position of your addon but yes, the idea could be to add a little pcb on top to avoid touching the card and press reset for example or making contacts or even just to make dirty on it.
Ah, I see! Yes, that would be a good idea. Maybe an acrylic cover like the MAKERbuino itself. I will probably make another minor revision anyway, so I will add some additional holes. Good feedback
Does the MAKERbuino have enough spare Memory, Processing Power, and I.O. to do the T.V. Output function with no additional external Hardware? (Other than the Resistors and RCA Composite Video cable). Just the extra bit of Code in it’s own ATmega chip, rather than the external Arduino.
My guess would be that this is impossible.
There is only one pin that’s free to use (D5). And the video signals must be generated following a very strict timing. If you take a look at the source code for the tv adapter you’ll see that almost everything is written in assembler. I think that the update-function of the Gamebuino library would compromise this code.
Furthermore the tv-out adapter code is using a lot of the available registers, so I think this would affect the Gamebuino library aswell.
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Is it possible to do it wirelessly