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Pokitto
Pokitto is a very nice educational open gaming console friendly to hacking and FOSS. Its website is https://www.pokitto.com/.
Its great advantage is its great active and friendly community that's constantly writing software, documenting Pokitto and helping newcomers.
The console was created by Jonne Valola from Finland. He started the project on Kickstarter on April 28 2017, pledged over $27000 and released Pokitto in February 2018. { Jonne is a really nice guy who loves the project, always helps people and shared technical details. ~drummyfish }
Pokito, unlike most other open consoles, is NOT based on Arduino, but on NXP's LPC11U6x microcontroller (MCU). Some features and specs of Pokitto are:
- Up to 220x176 color display (TFT). (Resolution and color depth depends on chosen mode and how much RAM you want to dedicate to screen buffer).
- Up to 72 MHz ARM CPU. The base frequency is 48 MHz but the hardware is easily overclocked.
- 256 kB ROM (program storage space).
- 36 kB RAM (working memory).
- 4 kB EEPROM (persistent storage).
- 7 buttons.
- Speaker and headphone jack.
- Both emulator and simulator which make programming much more efficient and comfortable.
- Custom library -- PokittoLib -- free-licensed { even though it contains a few small "fair use" files from the MCU vendor. ~drummyfish }. It has many features, unfortunately it's also kind of bloated.
- SD card support.
- Hardware extensions called hats. Available is e.g. a hat with joystick and extra buttons.
- Programming via USB, works on GNU/Linux with gcc ARM cross compiler. Supports a few languages: C++, C, MicroPython and Java.
- Custom IDE for noobs: FemtoIde.
- Schematics and 3D print files available.
- A huge number of games and other software has already been written.