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Odroid-Go Review: An Affordable DIY Portable Game Console

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Re: Odroid-Go Review: An Affordable DIY Portable Game Console

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Your best bet is a bespoke creation using the circuit sword, it’s quite a fine product. If you’re interested, the pre-order for this year has already closed but I secured a large order to fulfill custom orders for the holidays. lee@braains.net

> but I secured a large order to fulfill custom orders for the holidays. You mean order of Circuit Swords? I wasn't familiar with this board until I googled it just now. What about cases with buttons and screens? I'd love to be able to pay someone for one of these 'Bespoke' pre-assembled. Like an Etsy for electronics hackers.

Yes, I pre-ordered a large batch of circuit swords for supplying as fully assembled units, or single-sourced kits with all electronics and 3D printed components ready to assemble.

It’s a shame they are only available twice a year, but I’m putting some money down to fill in the gap; hopefully I don’t regret my investment, it’s a very cool project.

Re: Odroid-Go Review: An Affordable DIY Portable Game Console

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I ordered three of these last week to build with my nephew and niece. Shipping was quick to Canada and done with DHL. Looking forward to putting these together and hoping they might spark a bit of interest in programming or hardware in the kids.

Does anyone have any links to programming tutorials of videos that kids might like about this platform?

Re: Odroid-Go Review: An Affordable DIY Portable Game Console

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I ordered one of these, as a result of reading this post. It took me a while to get code uploaded, as the documentation was missing a couple of steps.

That said it is a cute device which arrived in Finland in less than a week, and I've been reliving my childhood by playing Tetris and Super Mario Bros #3 for the past few hours.

I made some notes here to fill in the missing steps for uploading code via the Arduino-studio:

https://blog.steve.fi/odroid_go_initial_impressions.html

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