{"id":205,"date":"2008-09-06T19:51:07","date_gmt":"2008-09-07T02:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/?p=205"},"modified":"2022-12-27T18:02:14","modified_gmt":"2022-12-28T02:02:14","slug":"space-invaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/space-invaders\/","title":{"rendered":"Space Invaders!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mightyohm.com\/files\/flickr\/2835124664_3346a3cd42.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Space Invaders!!!\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/p>\n<p>More progress <a href=\"http:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/generating-analog-rgb-video-with-a-pic-microcontroller\/\">using a PIC microcontroller to generate video<\/a>.\u00a0 What next?\u00a0 Color is easy.\u00a0 Animations perhaps?<\/p>\n<p>PS: If you start looking, these guys are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.space-invaders.com\/\">everywhere<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More progress using a PIC microcontroller to generate video.\u00a0 What next?\u00a0 Color is easy.\u00a0 Animations perhaps? 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