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open source, portable, modular
for IT geeks, retro game fans, makers
[ explore ] [ create ] [ learn ] [ code ] [ play ]
with AppStore and community support
full keyboard, weather station, MP3 player, FM radio, LORA messenger, GSM phone, GPS navigator, DAC player, and more and your own...
Little Game Engine web IDE, ZX spectrum 48k, GameBoy, Chip8/Schip, Arduboy, ANARCH - 3D Doom-like game.
IoT & ONLINE SERVICESWiFi-IoT.com, mysensors.org, mydevices.com, thingspeak.com, cloudmqtt.com, cloud.google.com, hivemq.com...
WiFi attacks, BadUSB, RFID/NFC, SUB-1Ghz transceiver, iButton, InfraRed
CODING & PROTOTYPINGArduino IDE, PlatformIO, espressif SDK, micropython, lua, basic, javascript, visuino, fl-prog...
blynk.io, remoutexy.com, virtuino.com
EXTENSION CONNECTORi2c, SPI, UART, ADC, i2s, LED out, MCP23017 GPIOs
SPECIFICATIONESP8266, 80/160Mhz, 4/8Mb, WiFi, LCD 128х128, LCD brightness DAC, RGBled, HQspeaker, 8 buttons, 600mAh battery, 30x70х17mm
WhyExplore the Open Hardware and SoftwareMake hardware research, understand the schematic, and improve it. Use as a platform for fast prototyping.
Learn to code. You don’t need to make low level code, just take the right library from the huge Arduino community. Check all the ESPboy opensource Arduino software. Write your own applications esily in standard IDEs using a wide range of compatible libraries.
If you are new in coding, but full of ideas, try to draw your first program or use online program constructor just selecting options or moving blocks: scratch.mit.edu,visuino,fl-prog,wifi-iot,mysensors.org
Try online AppStoreUpdate the firmware in a minute, using WiFi and selecting the App from the list right on the ESPboy. No programming, buggy libraries, compilation, fighting the bugs, and wires.
GameDev & Play with Little Game Engine web dev-kit, Arduboy library port & ZX Spectrum, CHIP8/SCHIP, Game Boy emulatorsMake your first game in a few hours using online web Little Game Engine IDE with the help of community, documentation, and samples.
Play retro old games the youth of your parents, touch the most famous platforms of the past, learn how emulation works.
Explore the world of Arduboy: platform, community, and games.
Use extension connector & gadget modulesAll useful interfaces on the expansion connector: I2C, SPI, I2S, UART, ADC, few MCU GPIOs and additional GPIOs from the MCP23017 GPIO expander.
Connect and control anything you want. The ideal prototyping mobile platform to test and improve your digital ideas.
Turn your ESPboy to the fully functional gadget in a minute with a standard expansion module or make your unique. MP3 player, GSM phone, FM radio, GPS navigator, LORA messenger, DAC AY38910 player, radiation meter, weather station. Play with it, understand the hardware, software, protocols, interfaces, create another one.
Research the protocols and make penetration tests of communication networks and security systems. WiFi attacks, storing your office cards RFID/NFC with it's reading and emulation, storing iButton keys, remote control of the 433Mhz barriers, and garage doors, use as a universal IR remote control all of your devices, use as U2F security token and play with BAD-USB payloads.
Learn Internet of things, online services & mobile phone integration. Make your home smartLearn the world of IoT. Connect the home automation sensors and actuators. Control them all or make the ESPboy one of them. Using WiFi onboard, get the data from the net, provide remote wireless control and monitoring of your home, send telemetry data to the online databases and services like www.thingspeak.com,www.cloudmqtt.com,cloud.google.com,www.hivemq.com
Take control of your ESPboy and other devices, connected to it with your smartphone. We are supporting blynk.io and RemoteXY.com
ConnectivityThere is WiFi onboard. But connecting the attacheble modules to expansion connector, you can use any trasiever: HC-11 for UART 433Mhz (excellent to control your robot or rover), CC1101 for 315/433/868Mhz (for controlling garage doors and barriers), NRF24le01 for 2.4Ghz, HC-06 for bluetooth, LORA modules and so on. The great thing that there are a huge quantity to open-source libraries for Arduino IDE so you can compile the included example and test the module just after the connection. No need to learn datasheet and then do low-level programming.
Specification- ESP8266 microcontroller (80/160Mhz 32bit Tensilica Xtensa CPU and 4-16Mb RAM) WiFi onboard
- 1, 44'' TFT 128х128 color display
- 8 buttons
- MCP23017 GPIO extender
- MCP4725 DAC to smoth control TFT backlit
- RGB WS2812B LED
- High-quality speaker
- 20pin extension header (DC, I2C, SPI, UART, ADC, MCU & MCP23017 GPIOs)
- 450mAh battery keeping high run for about 8 hours and years in sleeping mode
Connect the original module to the ESPboy's extension header, update the software through WiFi, and get the fully functional gadgets in a minute. Or build your own, explore, how it works.
Already tested modules433mhz sub-1Ghz inspector, GSM phone, GPS navigator, LORA messenger, Weather station, MP3 player, DAC player, IR remote, FM radio, Full layout keyboard, RFID/NFC reader-writer, Radio beacon, Health monitor, Radiation meter, digital thermometer, pulse meter
Under development modulesAir quality monitor, OBDII car scanner, iButton reader/writer/emulator, Signal generator, Energy monitor, Arduino firmware uploader, Bad USB payloads, Оscilloscope, Thermovisor
WiFi deauther, WiFi analyzer, Pinger, Packet sniffer, PT3 chiptune player, CHIP8/SCHIP emulator, ZX Spectrum 48k emulator, Little Game Engine, Arduboy2 lib port and more than 40 games, GameBoy emulator, ANARCH - 3D Doom like game
IoT and online servicesThe core of ESPboy is ESP8266 MCU widely used in IoT and supported by all of the infrastructure
Code, connect and exploreArduino IDE compatible and all its libraries. More over, there are wide range of supported development platforms
Certification and further development- Open Source Hardware Association OSHWA certification record
- Openhardware.io record
- Detailed description and development log on hackaday.io
Make yourself the ESPboy multigadget in 30 minutes
Bill of materials for minimal breadboard configuration- MCU board - WeMos d1 mini
- LCD - TFT SPI 1.44'' color 128x128 ST7735 blue version
- MCP23017 DIP + 2 resistors 4.7k or CJMCU-2317
- Buttons - any as you wish
- Speaker 50 Ohm (50 Ohm is important!)
- Battery - any 3.7V
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