[B4R] "Gameduino" et al?

[dilettante]

See Gameduino.

I could also imagine some sort of "semi-kit" housed in a small case with batteries on the order of a thicker version of an early NES controller, GameBoy, or something.

Case, board, battery holder where the case has maybe A, B, C, D buttons under the user's thumbs, a power switch and a reset button, small OLED display, small amplifier and mono audio output jack? Maybe an internal µSD-card slot and µUSB/serial port for programming?

Less of a hardware experimenter kit than a kids' programming platform, perhaps far more attractive in many ways for use in education than a raft of little things strung together via jumper wires.

How much other stuff of this nature is on the market already?

 

[dilettante]

Hmm, I guess I don't follow all of the varieties of 'duinos out there.

Here's something more interesting to me than just a bare Uno or something:

SparkFun Inventor's Kit for MicroView and they also sell the bare "Microview" and the "USB programmer" separately. Almost the core of what I was suggesting above right there! Not a "ready to play" purely software oriented package in a case but close.

Also see SparkFun Inventor's Kit for MicroView (More) for pinouts and such.