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Arduboy – Open Source Card-Sized Gaming Board
- jdcarter 10y agoI have one of these, they're very neat! Form factor is great, buttons feel good, build quality is solid. I bought a second one as a gift. At the time it first released it didn't integrate easily into the Arduino environment, but I checked and it's now in the Library Manager. Include "arduboy.h" and set board type to Leonardo, and you're all set. Edit: link to project homepage: www.arduboy.com
- codezero 10y agoWhat's the battery life like?
- pepijndevos 10y agoArticle claims 8 hours.
- jasonkostempski 10y agoTitle link should be changed to that page. That seeed site is shady. They started the price $10 above the asking price to give the illusion you'll save money if enough people buy it. BS and gimmickry.
- dexterwang 10y agoActually it's $37.95 now. Really a good price to buy.
- mkesper 10y agoBeware of autoplay video!
- Gmo 10y agoHow do you think it compares to the Chip ?
- khedoros 10y agoArduboy: 16MHz AVR microcontroller, 32KB flash, 1KB EEPROM, 2.5KB SRAM, 6 buttons, 128x64 display. CHIP: 1GHz ARM Cortex-R8 CPU, 512MB RAM, 4GB onboard flash, 802.11bgn+bluetooth 4.0, composite video output. They're very different computers.
- fit2rule 10y agoCHIP is a plain old Debian box. Arduboy is an Arduino.
- derrickdirge 10y agoI really wish there was hardware of a similar form factor that ran Pico 8. The Pocket CHIP is a start, but it's a more general-purpose machine with Pico 8 support.
- pepijndevos 10y agoPico 8 is based on Lua, so a relatively powerful CPU and lots of RAM are needed to run it.
- deutronium 10y agoHmm, you can get eLua which runs on microcontrollers, I wonder how you would handle the graphics though.
- cableshaft 10y agoShould be getting the Pocket CHIP in a couple of weeks. Already developing a game for it. The Pico-8 flavor of Lua is a dream to program for. It hasn't been this easy to develop games since Flash for me.
- PhasmaFelis 10y agoI was just thinking that this is tantalizingly similar to, but not quite the same as, PICO-8 on on a Pocket CHIP. It seems a shame to split such an interesting market like this. Pocket CHIP has the advantage of letting you code right on the device, of course, but how much value does that really have? Even on PC, some devs prefer to use a separate text editor rather than deal with text at PICO-8's resolution, and the dinky keyboard doesn't help.
- Macsenour 10y agoHow does one pre-order something that ships in August 2016... Is it shipping now?
- squeaky-clean 10y ago"Will be shipped on Sep 20th." I don't see anything about pre-orders or August anywhere on the page (did the link get changed?). This is a group buy, where you commit to purchasing something at a certain price, but if enough people also join, the price can come down for everybody because of bulk discounts. So right now you can commit to paying $39.95, and if 40 more (as of this comment) people join the price drops to the final tier of $37.95 for anyone involved in the group buy.
- ChrisRR 10y agoI ordered in May and I'm still waiting for mine, so make of that what you will.
- brink 10y agoPut wireless/bluetooth in it. I could program it to control a variety of IoT devices around my house.
- anotheryou 10y agoSome pins would be nice. I honestly don't care about gaming on an arduino, but something to quickly build a gui for an arduino project would be nice. Preferably: a GUI to select which project to boot and a single cable for all pins to plug to an expansion board with the actual hardware project. This way you could use one arduboy for all your projects (given you need just one at a time)
- microDude 10y agoIn the video, the author claims to be part of a hardware accelerator in China called HAX (https://hax.co/accelerator/ https://hax.co/accelerator/). Any other information on this? I find it interesting on their website that the conclusion of the accelerator is to get a successful crowd funded project...
- amk_ 10y agoSeveral (well, at least one) YC hardware companies have gone through HAX. They also do a demo day of sorts at SF Maker Faire, Arduboy was there last year.
- Retr0spectrum 10y agoI'd love to write a CHIP-8 emulator for this. It has the perfect screen resolution.
- a1k0n 10y agoIt's sort of a shame this is built around an Atmega chip as opposed to an ARM Cortex M0 like in the Teensy. I guess it doesn't need much horsepower for a 128x64 monochrome display, but it wouldn't have been much more expensive to put a much more powerful CPU in it. E.g., if you want to maintain a framebuffer, there goes 40% of your RAM.
- mmastrac 10y agoI had the same thought. At this point, those 8-bit computers are really not worth it unless you are using the really tiny form factors and size is a major concern.
- uola 10y agoSeemingly the whole point is to be accesible and simple by being arduino compatible. It has also already sold and shipped $400k+ worth.
- Sanddancer 10y agoThe Teensy is source-level compatible with the arduino, so it would have pretty much the same level of accessibility.
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