ESP8266 Tamagotchi DIY Soldering Kit
We have ✅ 3 available of the EL-CQA23809TK in our Sydney warehouse.
ESP8266 Tamagotchi is an electronic pet from the 90s. It can eat, poop and sleep.
The key component of the board is a Wemos ESP8266 mini-board, that is connected to an SSD1306 OLED screen with 128 by 64 pixels resolution (which is plenty, considering 32 by 16 resolution of the original). You can power it from two AAA batteries and take it with you.
A nostalgia-filled handheld toy.
Main features
- Wemos D1 Mini MCU board
- SSD1306 I2C OLED screen
- 3 push-buttons
- M2 harness that keeps it in one piece
- Dual AAA Battery holder
- Buzzer
How to use it
Soldering
The kit includes all the headers and connectors you need to make it work. However, you’d need to have a soldering iron and a small piece of soldering wire.
Soldering job will take 5 to 30 minutes depending on your skills.
Please check on the project page for details assembly instructions
Mechanical
You will need to assemble together 4 M2 brass standoffs with corresponding bolts.
Kit will happily accept power from any mini-USB charger or power bank. The battery holder on the back side allows to power from two AAA batteries
Firmware
Kits ships with a sample Platformio project, so please follow the official Platformio installation guide first.
Code is based on ArduinoGotchi ATmega emulator, which was ported to ESP platform.
Open the included firmware source code and build the project using the Platformio: Build task. Flash firmware to target using the Platformio: Upload task. Platformio will handle all the framework and library dependencies automatically
Space Invaders
Additionally, the 'Space Invaders' clone was ported to the Kit. It is black and white and filled with sounds, just like the original. You may give it a try.
Open Source Documentation
The ESP8266 Tamagotchi DIY Soldering Kit appears in the following collections:
SKU EL-CQA23809TK
by Little Bird