BeagleBone GamingCape Transforms your BeagleBone Black into an Hand-held Gaming Console

The BeagleBone GamingCape is an open source project featuring the BeagleBone Black together with extra hardware such as a Cape, LCD display, and enclosure that turns your Beablebone board into a battery powered hand-held gaming console. The gaming console, which has been designed within 6 weeks by Max Thrun, has the following key hardware features:

  • Beaglebone_GamingCape 320×240 16Bit Color TFT LCD
  • Analog joystick + 2 Thumb Buttons
  • 3D Gyro, 3D Accelerometer, 3D Magnetometer
  • Headphone Out + Mic In

and it can emulate NES, GameBoy, GameBoy Color, GameBoy Advance, Sega Master System, Sega Game Gear, and also run Doom.

It will not be mass produced, but the whole design is open source, and the necessary files  are available for:

Beaglebone_GamingCape_Board
Beaglebone GaminCape Description

Within the six weeks he had to complete the project, he somehow also found time to make an awesome makeof video that I really recommend to watch.

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