Tindie

It's a tiny clock for a desk or office. programing it is a little strange(press and hold the H) and it does have some nice demos by pressing H. the micro usb comes out the side and is a pretty weak connection so be careful of that.

Hannah | Oct. 1, 2021

If you can get it to work it's not bad.

For ESP32 3.2" TFT Touch with Camera

Very slow and you'll get errors in everything (try removing and reinserting the SD card) most of the examples don't work. The display I got constantly has errors when uploading. great communication on tindie but will be slow to respond to emails on their support.

Hannah | Sept. 7, 2021

Well, it's ok

For ESPlay Micro V2

It works. I was able to load my favorite game boy games and play with no issues, the battery life is ok not great but ok. Saving and loading games works with no issues. I added a little bit of double sided tape to the back of the display or it will move in the housing. the buttons have silicone caps and that helps but any serious playing will hurt after a bit and I keep pressing the menu when I mean to press A. Overall it's a fun little portable to pass some time on the classics.

Mohamed | June 17, 2021

Excellent kit, no documentation at all

Excellent kit, no documentation,I had to search for all the steps on line which was not easy. Other than that, the kit self itself great.

Documentation needs to be fixed so that people without experience can use the kit

Donald | May 1, 2021

It's ok but could use some improvement

For ESPlay Micro V2

The ESPlay Micro is a neat little handheld but it could be much better. First thing I noticed was no speaker was included even though the description lists onboard speaker as a feature.
The software is hit or miss. For one thing, certain rom files don't work. I don't mean homebrew / rom hacks or translation patched games either. I mean regular roms. Some do but others don't including homebrew / rom hacks and translated roms. I can't save any game progress. If I choose save from the menu it reloads the game without saving. If I try to save in a game that has a save feature it doesn't save progress if you return to it later. Colecovision doesn't seem to work at all.
The mp3 player doesn't work from the ESPlay menu. When you load it up from the bootloader it freezes if you try to skip to the next track.
I thought maybe it was a firmware issue so I installed the latest firmware revision from github but I still got the same results. Honestly, I'm not that sold on this product. Doesn't quite work as intended. I feel like I was duped.
Overall it works but it's not the best experience. 🤷

Andy | March 2, 2021

Great clock - I've got TWO now!

A fantastic clock!

The soldering will take you two minutes. There are no obvious instructions for setting the time but I found this on hackaday:

"press and hold both the H and M buttons simultaneously until "IT IS" goes out
H to set the hours M to set minutes (there no going back, only forward)
press them both again to exit out of this mode."

Pressing the M button will also adjust brightness.

Enjoy!

James | Jan. 28, 2021

Soldered,up and running in about five minutes.

For ESP32 3.5" TFT Touch(Capacitive) with Camera

Honestly one of the best things that I've purchased on Tindie. It has the absolute minimum amount of soldering to assemble. Overall functionality is great, save the already documented issue with the hour and minute buttons not being quite as responsive as I might like. Despite this, It's a great little clock that's ideal for a gift. The only major thing I would like to see would be an option to attach the USB connector in such a way that it projects toward the back since this would give some more options so far as mounting to some kind of frame is concerned- perhaps offering in a form where the connector is not soldered on to permit easy customization. The front PCB does diffuse the light into the adjacent letters a bit which might put off some folks, but I actually like the effect it produces. I might try making a new mask for the front out of something like etched brass or glass.

Neil | Dec. 20, 2020

Quality device at a great price

Came in a few weeks (I’m in the UK) and is a very impressive device. I’m not using the camera or touch screen as I just need the esp32 and screen, so can only comment on those. The sample apps are pretty good for learning how to draw on the screen, and I got something custom working within half an hour.

Would definitely buy more of these, and I almost certainly will.

Alexey | Nov. 29, 2020

After a few hiccups, got the toy

It's a lovely toy; I enjoy Othello and the way they've made it support 3 colours (with flash, that makes almost 4).

There was a hiccup with shipping - instead of PewPew I received the Word Clocks. Word Clocks are good, too. In the end I've got the toy I wanted, so everything's good.

Response from Makerfabs | Nov. 29, 2020

Hi Alexey, there we do not found your message about the wrong shipping.
If it is the word clock send to you, should be our worker shipped the wrong item.. please contact with tindie message, or email sales@makerfabs.com.

Alexander | Nov. 10, 2020

Great board

For Maduino Zero SIM808 GPS Tracker

The Maduino Zero SIM808 GPS Tracker is just great!
I've used it to build a simple GPS Tracker prototype.
As a toolchain I've just taken Arduino IDE and started from examples with GPS.

Patrick | Oct. 27, 2020

Great product, great price, the documentation could be bette

For MakePython ESP32 Color LCD

I'm really using this just to learn the intricacies of micropython. If I can get my act together, I have vague hopes of turning this into a small information portal near my front door, displaying temperature, time, subway and bus information.

But, really, the documentation could be a whole lot better. I've been a great deal of time in the first couple of weeks wondering how this spurious program appeared on the device, and better documentation would really have helped.

Kirill | Oct. 22, 2020

Loads of fun

Seller had a trouble with shipping company, which delayed delivery, but was resolved without me lifting a finger.

I really like the thing.
You can play stuff out of the box, easy to program, has some GPIOs to hook up external stuff.
When not playing, it's a great micropython starter kit with basic user IO included, for unbeatable price.

Mike | July 1, 2020

Crap product. Keys won't stick and fall. Cheap crap. Shame

For CircuitPython PewPew M4 Kit

I am typically an optimistic rater. Not a hater. But you gotta' say what you think.

What a cheap product this.
I don't even know why they bothered to sell this
It's basically a brick now
The keys fall directly off.
They won't refund me either after trying to contact them.
Worthless. Don't waste your money.

With just a little more effort, this could have been ok.
Shame.

Response from Makerfabs | July 14, 2020

Hi mike, i am tracking this all the time and have got your picture for the "falled Keys". There the Acrylic keys are sticked on the the button with sticker, it is just a quick/cheap solution fo the button installation, for this pythod learning kit, if the sticker not strong enough after some usage, stick again with the a sticker could be OK..

Gary | April 16, 2020

Really cute design, and easy to construct.

This is a really cute design, and very well done. Trivial to construct (only 4 solder connections). I received a unit that wouldn't set or save time and the seller was very responsive and quickly provided a replacement which works perfectly.

Highly recommended.

Daniel | April 14, 2020

Excellent, inexpensive, and professional

This is an amazing device with enough input and output to get you to learn programming easily. The samples on the device made it easy to see how the library works to make your own games. Very impressed.

Rudy | March 13, 2020

Good Value but not the kind of kit I thought

Good value. Works as advertised. I'd thought it would require soldering of components to main board but that was done already. I'd hoped to use this a practice surface mount soldering exercise. But, good quality and is as represented.

WHERE CAN I FIND A MANUAL THAT DESCRIBES HOW TO SET AND READ THE TIME DISPLAY?

Seth | March 5, 2020

Awesome little word clock

Assembly was simple, and it was up and running in minutes. The buttons sometimes don't respond on first press; I think there's a glitch with button detection in the code, probably a clock-timing thing. But with all the modes it has, and how great it looks, I would recommend this for anyone as a gift (to assemble or not). The only thing I'd like to see added would be an automatic time-setting option via usb or something. But that's only an issue until you get a battery for the RTC. Great little kit!

Steve | Jan. 29, 2020

Absolutely Worth The Price

The item arrived (although strangely, the tracking # didn't work) very quickly by Asia-US standards. It was packaged in antistatic bag/foam. It didn't have any documentation, but between the website and Hackaday this was not a problem and in this Internet age, given the audience for the product, I don't think it would be worth it for anybody to include. "Building the kit" consisted of cutting off a resistor leg and tying together the board sandwich at the corners (I left the rear legs long as locators for how I intend to mount it). I like to build kits once in a while, but I must admit that the likelihood of me getting 100+ LED's "right" would be somewhere between none and zero. It probably would have cost MORE as a true kit and would have been headaches for the supplier.

The battery (apparently a CR1220) was not included but I understand why; this adds some shipping cost and drama. I got one locally because I didn't want to wait (and paid dearly for it).

The clock is small and not terribly bright at even the brightest settings, but it is very legible and was a real bargain; it looks great, and I'm working on a nice plexiglass stand for it. Thanks!

Pieter | Jan. 26, 2020

Cool Word Clock "Kit"

First , is a cool looking word clock, but the documentation could use some work, u need to watch the video's to figure out how it works (kinda). Programming the clock is possible i think , but there is no info to be found how ? But maybe its me, and maybe I am to much of a noob. But it god delivered , it works !

Mike | Jan. 16, 2020

Excellent clock kit

I'm a big fan of blinky led projects and love the quality and work that has gone into this kit. Eventually finding the one video that shows you how to set the time is my only complaint. The instructions could be a little easier to locate, but other then that it is well worth the price and I would happily but other products from this seller in the future.

Paul | Jan. 7, 2020

What a great little device but doesn't keep time well

First, I have to say how shocked I was to get this word clock for $10! I received the "kit" today and after soldering the (provided) header pins to the four corners of the board stack to hold everything together, it was ready to go. Soldering took less than 5 minutes. The build quality is fantastic and adding a backup battery (CR1220) was so easy with the solid battery holder on the back of the unit. The setup buttons are easily accessible while not detracting from the appearance of the clock. The clock works like a charm with all the features as described. The "animations" are a nice addition and the ability to change the brightness (at the cost of some light bleeding) is great. My little Word Clock is now powered by an unused USB port on my workbench and gives me the word time at a glance. Thanks Makerfabs for making this available at such a great price. BTW, it is a WORD clock, not a WORLD clock ;)

UPDATE June 2020: After running this clock for several months I now see that the time drifts, a LOT, to the point where it can be considered a toy but not a reliable clock. Too bad cause it looks great.

Albano | Oct. 15, 2019

Works!! It is amazing but requires some expertise.

Tips: You will need at least a multimeter, a pen or some way to mark the polarity, a welder, more wires, some kind of glue (hot glue did not work for me) and a jumper pin.
It is important to check the transmitters polarity with the multimeter. Ralf of the transmitters in my kit was inverted.
You will need some welder expertise and some patience to glue the transmitters.
One last tip. The object to levitate needs to be smaller than half of the wave length. In practical terms smaller than 3 millimeters (0,12 inches).

Michiel | Sept. 30, 2019

Circuitpython with display

Inexpensive, CircuitPython device for less than a burger-with-coke!

It works straight out of the box preloaded with a few demo games. To program it, connect it using MicroUSB, and using ThonnyIDE one can effortlessly run your CircuitPython programs on the device. When connected to USB and powered on, it exposes a removable drive, which you can copy files-to-from the device, such as Adafruit libraries.

So why CircuitPython? its actually derived MicroPython. practically the same, but Adafruit has added a lot more devices, libraries.

See the small review on my Youtube channel #easylab4kids

In short: GREAT!!!

Michael | Sept. 19, 2019

Even cooler than last time

These things just get better and better! This batch came completely assembled and tested, with a different battery holder that doesn't leave exposed wires. Just add 2 x AAA and we're golden.

Jayson | July 1, 2019

Excellent

I am from Philippines and I am very satisfied with their service. I got mine working already! Thank you very much!

Kang | Dec. 26, 2018

This is a very well-designed work.