The XGS Pico Build it Yourself Kit 2.0

Harken back to the early years of video games – Atari, Commodore 64, vintage Nintendo and more. These pioneering game systems were built with a good deal of imagination, code-building, and expert programming; before the high-tech computer age of today. Now you can build your own video game console in the old style. This retro-inspired gaming system is designed specifically for hardware and software hackers.

The XGS Pico Edition 2.0 comes with both the XGS Pico Edition 1.0 solderless breadboard and parts as well as the Pico PCB Add-On Kit, so it's two kits in one! After you build the solderless breadboard version then you can solder your unit together and have a completely portable embedded game system that you can re-program. The complete assembly instructions, architecture, and programming of the Pico Edition comes with the kit on CD as Chapter 11 and 12 of ""Design Your Own Video Game Console"". The Pico Edition may be simple, but it packs a punch with a Ubicom SX28 microcontroller running at a blazing 80.000MHz. Additionally, the PCB version of the Pico Edition that you will solder together has a 7-Segment readout, 15-pin interface, A/V jacks, and a built in Directional Gamepad, for a completely portable mini-game console.