This Music Bundle includes Byteboi (DIY Game Console) and Chatter (a DIY set of two walkie-talkies).

Byteboi

ByteBoi is an improved and reimagined version of our beloved 8-bit educational gaming device MAKERBUINO. This device is an open-source retro game console that you can assemble and code yourself.

You can even use your ByteBoi for remote controlling your CircuitMess Wheelson because of the built-in Bluetooth & Wi-Fi chipset.

What you’ll get:

• 240×320 full-color TFT display
• Main circuit board with an integrated ESP32 dual-core CPU
• 1GB SD card with preloaded games
• 600mAh Li-Po battery
• Acrylic casing
• A bag of other small components such as resistors, pushbuttons, nuts and bolts
• An instruction booklet – ready for your offline knowledge consumption
• 1W speaker
• USB-C cable

What you’ll learn:

• How to assemble your own gaming device
• How video game consoles work
• How to code your own video game
• How to animate characters and simulate physics in a video game
• How to interface your ByteBoi with your Wheelson

What you can do with it:

• Play pre-made games on your ByteBoi
• Make your own video game and brag about it in front of your friends
• Connect your ByteBoi to the internet
• Share your creations with a community of game makers
• Byte the road, Jack

Chatter

Chatter is a free, private, security-first texting device. It comes in a pair (2 pieces) because texting yourself is not as fun as you think.

Unlike your regular phone, this device does not need a cellular network or a SIM card to work because it creates its own wireless network and communicates with other Chatter devices you’ve paired it with. The main purpose of Chatter is education and showing people that you can communicate freely and remotely without big corporations and the internet.

It uses the so-called “LoRa” low-power wide-area network technology in order to send text messages, emojis, memes, and GIFs.Chatter uses a publicly-available set of frequencies that are allocated for use cases like this one.

What you’ll get:

• Chatter’s circuit board with a built-in network communication module and dual-core CPU
• Antenna
• Display board – 128*160 TFT color display
• AAA batteries
• Acrylic casing
• A bag of other small components such as resistors and pushbuttons
• An instruction booklet – ready for your offline knowledge consumption

What you’ll learn:

• How to assemble your very own private texting machine
• What privacy means in the year 2020 and how you can digitally communicate without using the internet
• How LoRa works
• How Chatter encrypts/decrypts messages and pairs with other Chatters
• How to code and load custom apps onto your Chatter

Chatter includes various functions similar to chat apps you use daily:

• Friends list
• Friend pairing
• Chat color customization
• Profile avatars
• Memes
• Notifications