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24 alternatives to Arduboy

Programmable gaming platform based on Arduino

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Arduboy launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1. 1
   Arduboy▲156

   A mini open-source game system you can program yourself 👾

   2016 · its alternatives →

2. 2
   Arduino▲111

   Build your own electronics

   2014 · its alternatives →

3. 3
   Codebender▲123

   Development platform for Arduino users, makers and engineers

   2014 · its alternatives →

4. 4
   Gamebuino▲3

   A retro portable game console project based on Arduino

   2015 · its alternatives →

5. 5
   Arduboy▲7

   Card sized gaming

   2015 · its alternatives →

6. 6
   eNcade ▲63

   A Portable Raspberry Pi Gaming Console (Kickstarter)

   2014 · its alternatives →

7. 7IB
   I built a multiplayer Gameboy▲157

   Still very much a work in progress, but really wanted to share this even in it's early state. Had heaps of fun building it to learn more about WebRTC.

   2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

8. 8
   Kamibot▲109

   A robot that teaches your kids to code

   2016 · its alternatives →

9. 9GJ
   GBA.js, a Game Boy Advance emulator written in JavaScript▲76

   2012 · jpfau.github.com · its alternatives →

10. 10
    Kandu▲82

    Make games and apps without knowing how to code.

    2014 · its alternatives →

11. 11
    Blynk▲82

    An app for your next Arduino project

    2015 · its alternatives →

12. 12
    Polycade▲72

    A modern arcade cabinet

    2015 · its alternatives →

13. 13
    Rival {Theory}▲63

    Artificial intelligence for gaming

    2014 · its alternatives →

14. 14
    Battlecade▲87

    A portable vintage gaming concept for two

    2015 · its alternatives →

15. 15
    Robot Turtles▲69

    The game for little programmers

    2015 · its alternatives →

16. 16
    MekaMon▲84

    Robotics meets augmented reality meets gaming

    2016 · its alternatives →

17. 17SR
    Streaming Raspberry Pi games to a Game Boy Advance▲165

    2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

18. 18
    SwapBots▲77

    Augmented reality toys for creative play

    2017 · its alternatives →

19. 19
    Gateway▲56

    A puzzle-based platformer where you control a robot

    2015 · its alternatives →

20. 20AG
    A Game Boy emulator in C++▲37

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

21. 21
    Game Forger▲75

    Make games straight from your device!

    2016 · its alternatives →

22. 22
    SimplePLanes▲62

    An interactive airplane building game

    2015 · its alternatives →

23. 23IB
    I built a handheld CHIP-8 game console to teach myself embedded systems▲128

    A while back I wrote a CHIP-8 emulator (which is considered the Hello, World! of emulators and is more accurately a virtual machine since historically CHIP-8 was an interpreted language running on top of the COSMAC VIP to make game programming easier). But a few months ago I got really interested in embedded software, so decided it would be neat to port my emulator to a STM32 MCU and design a console around it as a learning experience, since CHIP-8 never existed as a physical system. I didn't know much about embedded software when I began, and even less about electronics, but I managed to…

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

24. 24
    Robotics: browser-based simulator▲61

    If you don't want a generation of robots, break them.

    2016 · its alternatives →

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