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TellyMate

sku: DEV-09313

Description: The TellyMate Shield equips an Arduino with the ability to send simple text and graphics to a TV. The TellyMate Shield connects to an Arduino board using long headers which extend through the shield. This keeps the pin layout intact and allows another shield to be stacked on top.

Arduino uses digital pin1 (TX) to communicate with the TellyMate. Just plug it into your Arduino and use Serial.println() commands to output text onto your TV!

The shield provides a 3.5mm jack and the necessary cable to convert to a composite video connection. The baud rate is selected by jumpers, which are also included.

Features:

TV output from your Arduino
PAL or NTSC Composite Video
Stackable Shield
works with Serial.println() etc.
38x25 characters
Black and White
Simple Graphics
Double width / height text
Simple control codes

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	by BenP +2.7 \| Jul 29, 2009 at 1:03pm +0.65
Would it be possible to connect this, an Arduino, and an ethernet shield and make a simple MMO style game? I would have no idea how to do this, but im sure someone would.

	by Chiel +4.2 \| Jul 29, 2009 at 4:55pm 0
technically it is possible since the shields both employ a different way to comunicate with the arduino(tellymate uses Uart while ethernet uses spi according to the pinout) great idea BTW.

	by Marttyn +0.77 \| Jul 30, 2009 at 6:56pm 0
Do i need arduino to connect to this? if only RS232 Tx is needed i could use a PIC microcontroller... Maybe not, but would be grate :)

	by Chiel +4.2 \| Aug 1, 2009 at 10:07am 0
anything that is able to produce the control codes and send it to the tellymate can be used to control it. its only made as a shield so that it can be stacked on the arduino. the tellymate is able to send data back to the microcontroller but that is optional. so it should be possible to use a PIC to controll it.

	by El_Nono +2 \| Jul 31, 2009 at 9:43pm 0
it is possible to be used for on printing text on a signal of existing video (osd)?

	by Chiel +4.2 \| Aug 1, 2009 at 9:55am 0
to add text to an existing video signal you would require the MAX7456 (available here on sparkfun) which is pretty much plug and play compatible with the Arduino.