Arduboy shown at 2015 Bay Area Maker Faire

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Channel: HACKADAY · 2015 · Science & Technology

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Mike Szczys caught up with Kevin Bates, creator of the Arduboy project, at 2015 Bay Area Maker Faire.

The Arduboy saw a successful Kickstarter campaign this year to put a commercial version of the hardware into the hands of those who love classic portable gaming:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/903888394/arduboy-card-sized-gaming/description

These units are beautiful, with a polycarbonate face plate, black dpad, red buttons, and a 128x64 OLED display. Arduboy is Arduino compatible and encourages you to write your own games for the hardware.
http://www.arduboy.com/

Because the project is open source it encourages people to extend the idea. One great example is this project which uses the software to drive a classic Game Boy screen:
http://hackaday.com/2015/08/18/arduboy-classic-plays-on-original-game-boy-screen

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