Why bother in fact ?

Just discovered this library, why bother in the end ... It has the nice touch to work with NTSC AND PAL (I need NTSC, I'm in Japan)

• http://www.arduino.cc/playground/Main/TVout
• A killer one ! http://code.google.com/p/arduino-tvout/
  • Used here http://freegeekvancouver.blogspot.com/2012/02/dymaxion-auto-matic-buckminster-fuller.html

The DIY way - NTSC

The right stuff

• Meochan aka Masami WATANABE "Nabe"-san, that very nicely shared his code with me (^_~)b
  • http://homepage3.nifty.com/two_legs/neo/project/Arduino/proj_Arduino.htm
  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZVFQIFUhwA
  • http://picasaweb.google.co.jp/MeowJPN/ELJ09#
• update April 2020: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysMUZaUsUp0 and code is here.
• another super explanation here http://www.gammon.com.au/forum/?id=11608

Note about the circuit to use (on an Arduino 2009):

• Pins A0-A3 : the data over 4 bit -> 2^4 = 16 shades of gray possible
• Pin 9 : PWM used for the carrier for VSync

Another link :

• http://www.batsocks.co.uk/readme/art_SerialVideo_1.htm

Looks nice but doesn't work

• The great AVGA http://avga.prometheus4.com/index.php?p=0-0
  • ... that doesn't compile on my WinAVR T_T Why oh why ???
• M. Lablonde (abandonned stuff, wrong timing on Arduino 2009 %20 recent Arduino IDE, should be rewritten in ASM or pure C)
  • http://www.arduino.cc/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1188261175/0
  • v3 : http://pastie.textmate.org/91536
  • v2 : http://pastie.textmate.org/91188

Misc information

Image taken from http://www.eyetap.org/ece385/vinfo_da00.png
These are the ideal values, however according some people on the net, 470 Ohm and 1 kOhm are ok.

http://www.ntsc-tv.com/images/tv/sync-wf.gif

PAL

• http://sites.google.com/site/alastairparker/arduinopong
• Awesome version of Tetris from Ben Ryves http://benryves.com/products/avrtvgame
• http://instruct1.cit.cornell.edu/courses/ee476/video/
• http://www.rickard.gunee.com/projects/video/pic/howto.php

Just buy it

• Telly mate (text mode)
  • http://www.switch-science.com/products/detail.php?product_id=217
  • http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info.php?products_id=9313