What's next?

Remember all that hardware I got last year? Well, I finally have some time to start playing with it! I still don't have any original project to work on, therefore, in the meantime I will be doing an adaptation of one of my old school  labs to practice, focusing especially in my coding style because I am well aware of my deficiency in that area.

A couple years ago, for my embedded systems class, we replicated the space invaders game on a Xilinx Virtex-II Pro board. Sadly, I didn't catch in video the finished product and the only thing I could find was this  video of me testing part of it:

So, for my practice project I think I'm going to do the same thing but this time I'll use my Teensy++ and Spartan-3, which is by far less powerful than the Virtex-II, and adapt some of my old VHDL code to build everything again from scratch. As of right now I haven't really considered the limitations of my current hardware now that I won't have a "fancy" PowerPC processor and 2GB of RAM, but the plan is to program a part of the game on each device and get them to talk to each other. This way I get to practice on both of them and also learn something in the process of making them interact. It should be doable... right? ....right?

Anyway, once I get started I'll post my code on GitHub for everyone to see, just keep in mind that it will be a  long-term, always work in progress thing for learning and practice purpose only.