by Jason Kridner

TL;DR – $99 BeagleBone Black GamingCape from CircuitHub

In last year’s TI

intern contest, Max

Thrun amazed us with his incredible

video of the making of the GamingCape

that turned a BeagleBone Black

into a handheld-gaming console running on AAA batteries. If you are like

me, you immediately wanted one of your own. I ran out and bought a few PCBs

from OSHPark, sourced parts

from Digi-Key and started assembling some boards. A few months later, as

you can see, I still don’t have it 100% assembled.

Well, I’m here to ask for your help in fixing this problem! I uploaded

Max’s open hardware design to CircuitHub and they launched a new tool

enabling us to go in together on a board build. This means we can use our

combined purchasing power to lower the cost of buying the components and

justifying the time it takes to setup machines to do the assembly. While

Max’s assembly skills are mesmerizing, they aren’t going to put many boards

in people’s hands.

Thanks to CircuitHub’s new group buy campaign tool, instead of spending

about $1,000 on just a single board assembly, we are each able to buy one

for under $100! If more people buy them, the price might even go down

further, so encourage your friends to buy one too. So, what are you waiting

for? Head on over to the group

buy campaign and turn your BeagleBone into a handheld gaming device too!

http://campaign.circuithub.com/beaglebone-gamingcape

Note that this is a group purchase and not an off-the-shelf product. Max

has done much of the hard work in designing and testing this board, but it

isn’t necessarily perfect. I’ll be working with CircuitHub over the next

few weeks to fix issues that Max has pointed out. Join the Disqus

conversation on the page to help us hammer out the details, visit Max’s

page to review the design materials and join the fun.

Now how about watching that video just one more time…

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