Arduview Is the Transparent Arduboy You Definitely Want Now

Back in the late 1990s and early 2000s, electronic devices with see-through enclosures were all the rage. That rad design language, often falling under the “Y2K aesthetic” umbrella these days, has now come back around and is phat again. Arduview brings that transparent design to the Arduboy and it doesn’t stop at the enclosure.

Arduboy is a popular line of open source handheld video game consoles that can run hundreds of homebrew games developed by people from the community. They’re low-power consoles built around the same ATmega32U4 that is found in the Arduino Leonardo, so a lot of the fun for developers is about working within the confines of the hardware constraints. Those constraints include low RAM and a low-resolution, monochrome screen.

Arduview is, essentially, a special Arduboy — though it is not officially related to Arduboy. The appeal of the Arduview is that it is totally transparent. That transparency...

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