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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.
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Arduboy▲156A mini open-source game system you can program yourself 👾
2016 · arduboy.com · its alternatives →
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Codebender▲123Development platform for Arduino users, makers and engineers
2014 · codebender.cc · its alternatives →
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A retro portable game console project based on Arduino
2015 · gamebuino.com · its alternatives →
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eNcade ▲63A Portable Raspberry Pi Gaming Console (Kickstarter)
2014 · kickstarter.com · its alternatives →
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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 →
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An educational puzzle game. Solve a series of tasks where you build increasingly powerful components. Starts with the simplest logical components and ends up with a programmable computer.
2018 · nandgame.com · its alternatives →
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Oak▲225Turn your table into an Augmented Reality playground
2016 · kickstarter.com · its alternatives →
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Gateway▲56A puzzle-based platformer where you control a robot
2015 · cockroach.se · its alternatives →
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SimplePLanes▲62An interactive airplane building game
2015 · store.steampowered.com · its alternatives →
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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 →
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If you don't want a generation of robots, break them.
2016 · robotics.ovh · its alternatives →
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hackster.io▲77Where hardware hackers and makers share their projects
2014 · hackster.io · its alternatives →
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Um... It's a game where you're a goat...
2014 · coffeestain.com · its alternatives →
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