Armadino is meant to be much more than a Arduino-based handheld gamepad. By attaching appropriate accessories to the expansion pins, it may be turned into a LED clock, a TV game console, an Arduino experiment kit or just about any creative project to control or sense.

It is not over-the-top and despite its brutal simplicity, has a colour LED matrix, a score board and 6-button keypad that make it both fun and versatile. Don't just experiment and learn, make something useful with it and proudly display it.

Armadino is also suitable for STEM education - from junior introduction to digital making to a college or graduate course in programming, embedded systems and micro-controller.

The Armadino is programmable as an Arduino UNO, with library functions for LED matrix, 7-segment LED, buttons, sound and TVout, and example projects including a clock, handheld game (Snake, Pong, Space Invaders) and TVout games (Tetris, Breakout, Space Invaders again!)

For more details and the many roles Armadino can do, visit this Instructables and Instagram for photos and short video clips of the clock, handheld and TVout games.