You can buy improved ESPboy at www.espboy.com

ESPboy:DIY - the ultimate multi-gadget

for IT geeks, retro game fans, makers - to explore, create, learn, code & play

• ESPboy First start instructions by RomanS
• Getting started INSTRUCTION
• Youtube videos
• OSHWA certification record
• Openhardware.io record
• Community forum and chat
• Hackaday
• Schematic
• Software

Features

• Empowered with WiFiAppStore, WebAppStore and community support
• WiFi onboard, 100% Arduino IDE compatible
• Could be: (a) prototyping and developing platform for makers and IoT experiments (b) a retro game console (supports Little Game Engine, GameBoy, ZX Spectrum 48k, Arduboy games, CHIP8/SCHIP) (c) WiFi analyzer/packet sniffer/attacks detector...
• With attachable extension modules turning to any portable gadget in a minute (weather station, IR blaster, FM radio, MP3 player, LORA messenger, GPS navigator, GSM phone, Radio beacon, AY player, Sub1Ghz inspector, RFID/NFC reader, and much more...)
• Uses ESP8266 microcontroller (Xtensa Tensilica 32bit core, 80/160mHz, 4Mb) and has built-in WiFi, 8 buttons, RGB led, high-quality speaker, extension header.

Notes

• Works right from the box, but you have to fit the casing panels if you want to get DIY experience and make it look better.
• In the package, you'll buy only a basic devise without additional modules. Additional, modules you have to buy or construct by yourself
• Preloaded with LGE games and AppStore software. So it's ready to play right from the box more than 30 unique Little Game Engine games.
• To enter the WiFiAppStore menu, turn on the ESPboy with A or B key keeping pressed for a 10sec (until you see AppStore menu)
• Please note that the side USB is only for charging, for uploading the firmware use the second USB on the main controller

Highlights

ATTACHABLE MODULES (are not included in the package) full keyboard, weather station, MP3 player, FM radio, LORA messenger, GSM phone, GPS navigator, DAC player and your own...

GAME-DEV & PLAY ANARCH - 3D Doom-like game, Little Game Engine web IDE, ZX spectrum 48k, GameBoy, Chip8/Schip, Arduboy.

IoT & ONLINE SERVICES WiFi-IoT.com, mysensors.org, mydevices.com, thingspeak.com, cloudmqtt.com, cloud.google.com, hivemq.com...

PEN-TESTING & OFFENSIVE SECURITY WiFi, RFID/NFC, SUB-1Ghz transceiver, iButton, InfraRed

CODING & PROTOTYPING Arduino IDE, PlatformIO, espressif SDK, micropython, lua, basic, javascript, visuino, fl-prog...

MOBILE PHONE INTEGRATION blynk.io, remoutexy.com

EXTENSION CONNECTOR i2c, SPI, UART, ADC, i2s, LED out, MCP23017 GPIOs

SPECIFICATION ESP8266, 80/160Mhz, 4/8Mb, WiFi, LCD 128х128, LCD brightness DAC, RGBled, HQspeaker, 8 buttons, 600mAh battery, 30x70х17mm

What you can do with ESPboy

Open Hardware and Software

Make hardware research, understand the schematic, and improve it. Use as a platform for fast prototyping.

Arduino IDE, VS code/PlatformIO, MicroPython, and LUA compatible

Learn to code. Check all the ESPboy opensource software, improve it. Write your own applications in standard IDEs using a wide range of compatible libraries. Visual programming & firmware constructors

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

Online WiFiAppStore and WebAppStore

Update 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. Little Game Engine web dev-kit, Arduboy library port & ZX Spectrum, CHIP8/SCHIP, Game Boy emulators

Make 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.

Extension connector & gadget modules

All 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.

Pen-testing and offensive security modules

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.

Internet of things and online services & mobile phone integration

Learn 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

Connectivity

There is WiFi onboard. But thanks to attachable modules to expansion connector, you can attach any transceiver: 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 is a huge quantity of 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 the datasheet and then do low-level programming.

Explore and play original-retro&neo-retro games

• ANARCH - 3D opensource Doom-like game

• Little Game Engine (LGE) games - neo retro 2020

• Arduboy games - neo retro 2010

• Game Boy games - Nintendo classics 1990

• ZX Spectrum games - Great Britain retro 1980

• CHIP8/SCHIP games - retro heritage 1970

WiFiAppStore and WebAppStore - Get new Apps&Games in a minute

• Download Apps&Games from online ESPboy AppStore

• or compile original ESPboy's App sources from Github

• Use WebAppStore to upload Apps using your Chrome browser

Develop your own Apps&Games

Try electronics and programming a fun way and get kids interested, hack the world or impress it with your creativity.

• Little game engine

• Arduboy

• Arduino

• Micropython

• LUA

• BASIC

• Scratch

• or other hundreds of available tools

Original modules

(are not included in the package)

Coming soon loads of original ESPboy modules to turn your ESPboy into a fully functional gadget in a minute

• RFID/NFC read/store/write/emulate

• Universal IR remote control able to read/store/write/emulate IR commands

• Sub-1Ghz scanner and signal emulator to operate garage doors and barriers

• LORA messenger

• FM radio

• MP3 player

• weather station

• GPS navigator

• GSM phone

• CW radio beacon

• AY-3-8910 Player

• Radiation, CO2, and phenol measuring

• Robots radio control

• Digital thermometer

• Digital ruler

• Heart rate monitor

• and much more...

Welcome for help, questions, and talks

• community forum

• discord chat

What's in the package?

• Fully assembled ESPboy gadget loaded with Little Game Engine games and worked right from the box and ESPboy App Store access firmware

• Casing kit to assemble it by yourself (don't need soldering, Just screw a few parts together: 2 casing panels + 4 brass columns + 8 screws for columns + 6 button screws + 6 springs + 6 nuts for button bolts. You have to adjust the buttons springs and fix the nuts with glue to make the buttons work properly)

• USB cable for charging and uploading compiled software (remember that side USB is for charging only and for uploading the firmware you have to remove the casing and use the second USB on the microcontroller)

Specification

• ESP8266 microcontroller (80/160Mhz 32bit Tensilica Xtensa CPU and 4/16mb RAM) on the WeMos D1 mini board

• WiFi connection for ESPboy App Store, multiplayer, online cloud services data transfer, telemetry transmission, and “over the air” updates

• TFT 1,44' 128х128 color display

• 8 buttons (6 at the front panel and 2 additional on the sides)

• MCP23017 i2c GPIO extender

• MCP4725 i2c DAC to smooth control the TFT backlit brightness

• RGB WS2812B Neopixel smart led

• High-quality speaker

• Extension header for easy connection of sensors and actuators

• Rechargeable battery enabling your ESPboy to run for hours

Have fun with ESPboy:DIY!

Regards, Roman