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Play retro games and learn coding with a console Made in France
We take this very seriously.
Don’t take our word. Check out what the Gamebuinians say.
"Great product, great people. Lots of transparency. Fun with user base. Would recommend completely."
- Mike
"The balance between designing for usability and tinkering is very good, great job!"
- Delio
"Amazing support staff helped make sure i would receive my Gamebuino on time even with the silly error I made while backing."
- Dihydrogen
Gamebuino won many design and innovation awards
After a though competition against 20+ EdTech start-ups, Gamebuino earned the first place.
We were honored to win a French international design award, as we are in the Unesco City of Design.
BPI awarded us grants reserved to the most innovative and promising start-ups.
Got questions? We’ve got answers. If you have any other questions, feel free to send us an email at hello@gamebuino.com
We hate long and boring classes. We're not fan of disorganized tutorials. You will learn progressively by doing with the help of the online Gamebuino Academy. Your very first game will be running in under an hour.
We'll teach you coding from scratch. No previous experience required. No need to be a "nerd". It's time to get started... and the Community is here to help! Note that our users are between 12 and 60+, but motivation makes everything!
You type the code on your computer, the game runs on the Gamebuino, thanks to the provided USB cable. The required software is free and compatible with Windows, Mac, Linux and even Raspberry Pi. Any computer will do.
You will program with Arduino, so the language used is C and C++. It's an essential language that you'll be able to reuse for many other things, beyond video games.
The products are in stock and we ship worldwide (and beyond) for free. Order today on our online shop and join the adventure!
Of course and that would be awesome! Contact us if you have any question or to receive a special quotation for our all-in-one class pack :)
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We want to wet your curiosity and give you a better understanding of the world we live in. Make you a maker. Programming and electronics should be accessible to anybody, because making is so much fun.
We are whole. Everything is much simpler with no secrets. We are not here for our personal success, but because we are part of something bigger.
We have to be profitable to pay the rent, but earning more is not the ultimate goal. We take decisions based on our values, not on the maximum possible outcome.
If we want to stick around, we have to be sustainable. We think local, use recycled materials, avoid useless waste. We don't cheat, we pass due certifications and pay taxes.
There is always more to be known and to be done. We learn from anybody we meet. We never settle and we are ambitious, because it's always easier than it seems.
We question everything and love to venture off the beaten tracks. Don't be a passive consumer, join us as an active creator and you will feel the accomplishment.
Working seriously shouldn't prevent us from taking things lightly. We have fun no matter when. If something is boring or not amusing, we just change it. YOLO.
If you're curious to know how all this happened :)
Aurélien was 20 when he made an Arduino game console for fun. As people started asking how to make one as well, he knew it was time to clean things up.
After two years of learning how to make PCBs and prototyping while studying mechanical engineering, Aurélien eventually launched the Gamebuino Classic on Indiegogo. It was a huge surprise to see that it passed the goal 10 times with 33,164€ raised.
Aurélien had never launched a product or manufactured electronics before, yet the 1000 pre-orders were shipped on time and user feedback was really positive.
Aurélien graduated and started doing cool stuff in in the fields of robotics, vision and AI. But there were so many things to improve on the Gamebuino, he eventually quit his job and went full time on the project to prepare a new version.
The product, the website and everything else was re-thought from scratch based on the experience gained with the Gamebuino Classic. This resulted in a far superior product and user experience. Katrin and Sandra joined the team. This time, 66,337€ were raised on Kickstarter.
All consoles were shipped on time and we got overwhelmingly positive user feedback. But it's far from the end. We continuously test and improve the website and content to get the best user experience. Oh, and we hire, see the link in the footer.
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