LILKA

Lilka with Doom game artwork on the screen

LILKA is an open hardware DIY console created in Ukraine.

It can be assembled from inexpensive electronic modules you can buy.

It is aimed at learning. Once you assemble it, you have a simple, yet powerful device with a lot of possibilities:

Run Nintendo (NES) games in emulation
Run DOOM
WiFi and Bluetooth
GPIO extension to connect more hardware
Lua programming
Running programs from MicroSD card

Again, note that this is not a consumer-grade game console. It’s a do-it-yourself kit, which is quite simple to assemble even for the newbies (soldering required). Its goal is to give you cheap hardware to tinker with, and a ready base system firmware (FreeRTOS based) for display, buttons, sound, battery and other components. Of course you can play games on it! But gaming is not the main purpose of it.

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You can buy a full LILKA assembly kit from me on Ebay, including a battery, if you are in the UK.

Email me lilka@decent.im if you are outside of the UK and want to buy one. Most probably I won’t be able to ship battery.

Distributing for public benefit

If you run a club in electronics/computing with at least 2 Ukrainian youth participants, I will gladly give one Lilka assembly kit for your club. Email me lilka@decent.im.