Nibble Educational DIY Retro Game Console Kit (with tools)

Nibble: a complete electronics design learning experience

This Arduino-compatible electronics kit takes users from the age of 9 by the hand as they learn how to assemble the hardware and their first lines of code. There’s everything you need to build and code a portable game console with its own display and create your first games. It comes preloaded with 4 retro games to relax after your workshop!

Better than MAKERbuino?

MAKERbuino also has a kit for building a portable console from scratch and playing some deliciously retro games (as long as you have the right kit!). But Nibble has made some improvements:

• It has a more powerful and faster processor
• It has much more memory and RAM
• It is quicker to assemble!

Nibble is accessible to children from the age of 9 and teaches programming not only with C++ (and so in the Arduino IDE), but also with CircuitBlocks and Python. CircuitBlocks helps beginners learn the basics of programming thanks to a visual editor that involves moving blocks (similar to Scratch).

Technical specifications of the CircuitMess Nibble kit

• Processor: 32 bits, 160 MHz
• Storage: 4 MB
• RAM: 80 kB
• Display: 1.4” 128x128 full colour TFT
• Connectivity: WiFi
• Assembly time: 2 hours
• Programming C++ (Arduino), CircuitBlocks (block programming), Python
• Age: 9 years and over

Resources for the Nibble retro game console kit

• Download the CircuitBlocks software
• Assembly guide - Nibble console
• GitHub - Nibble console