Making a Trackball Microview Breakout game

In this video I use an ICStation Trackball (Blackberry style) and hook it up to a Sparkfun Microview - a controller with a display built in. I get this setup working, with a foray into a logic analyser and then use it to make a breaking-bricks-with-a-ball game.
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The Trackball board was supplied by www.icstation.com, the microview was purchased from Sparkfun via kickstarter. The ideas and build are my own work.
All music used in this video is my own.

[@MobiusHorizons]

That's a really neat project. looks like quite a bit of programming!! nicely done.

[@Orionrobots]

+MobiusHorizons I'm yet to make videos on it, but I've been building classic games using python turtle for use in a coder dojo. I've done tutorial steps to build up into working games, but also took one way further, working towards a pretty detailed shoot-em-up. I am a software engineer by trade, so lots of code is in my comfort zone.

[@altomeSpace]

So I opened your video to check for a project on the trackball, and noticed the faulty roller on mine, two seconds later you find your faulty roller. I think I know now why they are cheap. Nice video!

[@altomeSpace]

The faulty roller is full of crud when opened up, even after cleaning it still goes slower than the rest

[@Orionrobots]

I'd love to hear if you get it fully functional.

[@KISHORENEDUMARAN]

I also just now noticed that top and right roller wasn't working!

[@MobiusHorizons]

Thanks for the shoutout!! Someday I need to figure out how to make it like a real-time o-scope style logic analyzer with a cheap tablet.

[@Orionrobots]

MobiusHorizons I look forward to that. I wander what you'd get from a serious fpga with an rpi?

[@lillydoye7418]

Can you link to that logic analyser. It looks quite cool and I don't have one in my lab yet.

[@Orionrobots]

Samuel Doye hi, it was from ebay, as salea compatible logic analyser.

[@Orionrobots]

and unfortunately the listing links are dead already.

[@MobiusHorizons]

i just bought the cheapest listed as "salea logic analyzer" it should look pretty much like what he opened in the product image.