Special projects · One board per room
Build one thing,together.
A special project is one shared board. Everyone who enters a room builds the same project, live, from the first part to a working device.
01 · Reverse engineering · 4 rooms
Take it apart. Build it again.
Four devices, read from public documents (the makers' pages, regulatory filings and technical references) and rebuilt in the open as working boards and cases.
- Fig. 01Room 01
Pocket
heypocket.comAI voice recorder
A recorder the same size that captures a conversation and a phone call, keeps them on the device, and moves them to a phone over Bluetooth and Wi-Fi.
Open - Fig. 02Room 02
Persona Band
yourpersona.comVoice wristband
A voice band built from the published spec sheet: two mics, a speaker, a light ring, a mute that cuts the mics, and three days on a charge.
Open - Fig. 03Room 03
Friend
friend.comAI companion pendant
A pendant about 2 inches across that listens all day, sends speech to a phone over Bluetooth, and answers through its own speaker.
Open - Fig. 04Room 04
Game Boy
Pan DocsHandheld console
A new handheld that plays original cartridges: a modern mainboard around a real Game Boy CPU, USB-C charging, a backlit screen and a speaker.
Open
02 · Drones · No room yet
Drones. Not yet.
Flight controllers, power boards and the radios between them. No room in this category is open yet; when one is, it is listed here like the others.
How a room works.
One board.
A room is a single heypcb project: one schematic, one layout, one set of files that everyone in it builds together.
Live.
On the schematic and the board you see who else is there, where their cursor is, what they have selected and the route they are drawing.
One goal.
Each room names the device it rebuilds, what is publicly known about it and where from, and the milestones that reach it, in order.
Your own Inky.
Ask Inky in a thread of your own. The board is shared; each person's turns count against their own plan.
Pocket, Persona, Friend and Game Boy are trademarks of their owners. heypcb is not affiliated with them and no endorsement is implied. Rooms build functionally equivalent devices from public information.