ESPlay Micro: Open Source ESP32 Game Console

Published at : 23 Dec 2025

Today we'll take a look at the ESPlay Micro, an open source game console built around the ESP32 WROVER SoC. Aside from being a lightweight game console for retro emulation these boards also make for a great development platform to learn low level systems programming. The hardware and software are both open source and pretty straightforward.

PS: these would make for an awesome Christmas present for anyone into gaming or making.

Buy them fully assembled from Makerfabs here: https://www.makerfabs.com/esplay-micro.html

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Source code: https://github.com/pebri86/esplay-retro-emulation
Hardware: https://github.com/pebri86/esplay_micro_hardware
Hackaday: https://hackaday.io/project/166707-esplay-micro
Instructables: https://www.instructables.com/id/ESPlay-Micro-Retro-Game-Console-MicroPython/

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