Playing video games for a college application

[wraggster]

http://hackadaycom.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/game.jpgAs a senior in high school, [Owen] has been waiting to hear from the colleges he applied to for months now. Some of his applications wanted a mid-year report to see if he didn’t come down with senioritis. [Owen] realized these colleges allowed additional materials beyond a high school transcript, so he built a tiny video game (http://www.hackniac.com/blog/?p=927) that shows his electrical and programming skills.The Demomite, as [Owen] calls his build, is an amazing piece of work. The entire system is based around an ATtiny2313 with a measly 2kB of program memory. Aside from a graphic LCD from Sparkfun (http://www.sparkfun.com/products/10168) and a repurposed NES controller, there isn’t much else to the build. As a study in minimalism and simplicity, [Owen] gets a big congrats from us.The entire game fits in the 2kB of flash on the ATtiny, mostly due to coding the entire thing in assembly (http://www.hackniac.com/blog/?p=974). You can check out [Owen]‘s time-lapse construction video, software demo, and the video he sent to colleges after the break.

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