Hello and welcome to Singleboard, I’m the creator Kevin and you may also know me as the creator of the Arduboy.
This community is a place for anyone to share an open source, feature complete, home-made computer. The focus is specifically on systems built with microcontroller dev boards attached to a display and input of some kind.
Arduboy started as my hobby, and became a business. Over the years, I had worked on some new platforms that were not compatible with the Arduboy, and thus, felt like it wasn’t the best place to share on the community. There are other platforms to share electronics projects (hackaday, hackster) but none that focus specifically on “computers” and certainly none offer the forum experience that seemed to be so valuable for the Arduboy community.
So this is supposed to be like the Arduboy community, without the Arduboy.
The next step is to create categories for some of the major controllers, ESP32, RP2040, STM… etc. The idea is if you are a creator of a platform you will be able to create a post to a subcategory your hardware definition. Basically just share the required modules to build the system, the pinouts and links to the documentation.
It’s great if the platform you are sharing already has a community of it’s own, link to that too! The goal is to create a catalog of homebrew game systems, so that they don’t end up in their own silo.
The ultimate dream is that this can be a resource for current and new hardware creators. Where we can ask each other questions and help each other learn for the goal of making new, personalized computers.
There are plans to help creators who are selling, to get additional visibility on the site. The concept is that someone who might currently sell on tindie could use this site as their own community for their platform without having to establish their own forum.
I’ll be making the new categories going forward and inviting creators to post their platforms. If you have a platform, and the category isn’t created yet please send me a message, or you can reply in this thread too.
Right now, it’s only me and the crickets - this might take a really long time to get going, it might not take off at all. At the very least it will be a useful sandbox for me to post my projects in long format that won’t fit on other social media. I hope you can find it useful for the same thing!
Most of all, I’m excited to see if this can even work!? Join along, share your thoughts.
What do you think Singleboard needs?