Welcome to the
DIY Gamer
- Manual
This is a step-by-step guide to making
your own hand-held Gamer. The
equipment you should have at your
station are wire strippers, cutters,
soldering iron, solder sucker, screw
driver and Blue-tack.
We hope you enjoy this creative
task, learn some new technological
skills and apply them to your life in
useful ways.
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Getting Started
Top Tips
Keep an eye out for the top
tips. They are highlighted in
a yellow box like this!
Making Time
The kit takes about one and half fun filled hours
to solder and build, depending on how speedy
you are at soldering!
Useful Appendix
Further information on all the components in
this kit can be found in the Appendix at the back
of the manual. Learn about their use within the
circuit you are building.
Further Resources
Information on how the circuit works alongside
different ways to extend your Gamer can be
found on our resource page: twsu.co/gamer
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Making your DIY
Gamer
Parts:
1) 1x Acrylic Casing (Front)
2) 1x Acrylic Casing (Back)
3) 1x Gamer Printed Circuit Board (PCB)
4) 2x LED Matrix sockets
5) 4x Header pins
6) 1x 8x8 Common Anode LED Matrix
7) 1x Infrared Receiver
8) 1x Light Dependent Resistor (LDR)
9) 1x Infrared Transmitter
10) 1x Light Emitting Diode (LED)
11) 1x Extra LED (for use with your Arduino)
12) 5x Nuts/ 3x Short Bolts/ 2x Long Bolts/ 3x Short Spacers/ 2x Long Spacers
13) 4x Push Buttons
14) 1x Power Switch
15) 1x Start Button
16) 2x Chips (1x 8 Bit Shift Register & 1x LED Driver)
17) 2x DIL Sockets
18) 1x 1k Ohm Resistor
19) 1x 10k Ohm Resistor
20) 2x 9V Battery Contacts
21) 1x Low Profile Buzzer
22) 1x Arduino Uno Microcontroller
Not Included in Kit:
Blue or White Tack (helpful for soldering)
Soldering Iron
Solder Sucker
Solder
Wire Cutters
Screw Driver (Philips Head)
Check your components to make sure you have all the parts to build
your DIY Gamer!
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DIY Gamer - Manual
Components
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1
2
3
21
22
19
4
20
5
16
15
14
17
8
6
7
9 10 11
12
13
18
Top Tip
Some components may
look slightly different to
the ones above, don’t be
alarmed, this is normal!
Components
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