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A project log for LAMEBOY - another ESP12 handheld

fully portable ESP12 project with battery charging and power muxing

davedarkodavedarko 10/08/2017 at 14:210 Comments

Looking at my "competition" and what's on the market right now, there are two major Arduino handheld gaming platforms at the moment of writing, that pop out


Arduboy

if you want to get one cheap, here's a link to their current kickstarter - special editions are already gone, but you can still get a standard version cheaper then everywhere else. (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/903888394/arduventure-on-arduboy)

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CONs


Gamebuino (also Makerbuino)

PROs

CONs


Conclusions for this project

There is a 1.54 inch OLED display, that seems reasonable in price to work with and maybe switch to the ESP32 to make it slightly easier to deal with buttons etc. - although I'm not sure what that means for deauther support (I think that's only possible with the ESP8266 right now, correct me if I'm wrong). But I'm pretty happy with the state of the project (except for sound, but I2C soundcard is coming https://playground.arduino.cc/Main/SIDuinoI2c - thank you @Radomir Dopieralski  ) and I will continue to make this a small run thing for tindie.  

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