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ByteBoi Build Guide
Introduction
The beginning
Welcome to CircuitMess ByteBoi build guide!
By following this build guide, you'll learn how to assemble your retro game console.
With ByteBoi you'll learn how to create your gaming device, how video game
consoles work, how to code your own video game, and how to animate characters.
Also, you'll learn how to interface ByteBoi with your Wheelson.
Age group
Like it says on the box, ByteBoi is designed for anyone who's at least 11 years old.
You should approach some of the assembly steps carefully, so make sure to have
an adult jump in if you need some help with soldering or tightening the bolts later
in the process. It's okay to ask for help.

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Jessica Lojek
March 29, 2025

Where is the Bluetooth setting on my ByteBoi?

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Mr. Anderson
March 30, 2025

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Summary of Contents for Circuitmess ByteBoi

  • Page 1 Also, you'll learn how to interface ByteBoi with your Wheelson. Age group Like it says on the box, ByteBoi is designed for anyone who's at least 11 years old. You should approach some of the assembly steps carefully, so make sure to have an adult jump in if you need some help with soldering or tightening the bolts later in the process.

  • Page 2: What's In The Box

    So hold on tight, read all the instructions, and get ready to have fun! This is a great opportunity and your first step in your big engineering career. Learning with ByteBoi As previously mentioned, ByteBoi will teach you a few useful things in the following few hours. Here's what you'll learn:...
  • Page 3 Open your ByteBoi box and check if you have all the components. Make sure to lay it all on a clean surface where you'll inspect if everything is there according to the photo and the list below.
  • Page 4 In case something is missing, please contact us at contact@circuitmess.com. Send us a photo of everything that came in the box, and we'll get back to you as soon as possible to resolve the issue. Here's the list of components: 1.

  • Page 5: Mandatory Tools

    If you have your CircuitMess Tools pack in front of you, you should be all set! In case you got the ByteBoi kit without the Tools pack, this is a good time to borrow some of the tools or purchase them.
  • Page 6 Soldering iron This is the most important tool in a maker’s arsenal. For ByteBoi's assembly, any entry-level soldering iron will suffice. If you plan to dive into the world of DIY projects, you should consider getting a more expensive one with more features. Many soldering irons with interchangeable tips can be particularly useful when working with much smaller components.
  • Page 7 This small piece doesn't seem like much until you soak it in some water. It then  turns into a super solder-cleaning sponge! Use it after soldering a couple of joints to remove the excess solder from the tip of your iron. Make sure that the sponge isn't dripping wet or bone dry - it should be damp.
  • Page 8 Needle-nose pliers Standard cross screwdriver You’ll need this cross (Phillips) screwdriver to assemble the casing. A standard 2.0mm cross screwdriver should do the trick.
  • Page 9 Standard cross screwdriver Desoldering vacuum tool (solder sucker) This tool is useful when cleaning up soldering mistakes, but it isn’t necessary for assembly. If you plan on doing some hacking, modding, or hardware repairs in the future, having this is always a good idea.
  • Page 10 Desoldering vacuum tool Additional useful tools Helping third hand with magnifier This could make your soldering experience a little more enjoyable, especially when doing some more complicated projects. Helping hand with a lot of additional tools Multimeter A multimeter can be used for many things: testing tricky connections, measuring battery voltage, testing resistors &...
  • Page 11 Solder wick Assembly Soldering introduction The first thing that you'll do as a part of the ByteBoi assembly process is soldering! Have you ever done that before? If your answer is no, we suggest you look at the following few links where you'll find useful tutorials and blogs about soldering. It will only take you 10 minutes to get into the zone and understand how it's done.
  • Page 12 There are several rules of soldering that everybody, regardless of their skill level, should follow at all times. Never inhale the dust and the fumes that can be produced by the soldering iron! These can be hazardous, so please don't inhale them. Never touch the tip of the soldering iron! Even if the soldering iron is turned off or completely disconnected from the power source, there is still a possibility that it’s very hot and, therefore, can cause very uncomfortable pain if...
  • Page 13 If you have purchased the CircuitMess tools pack with your ByteBoi kit, you have gotten a white soldering iron with a temperature regulator. Remember the rules mentioned previously? Good! Let's go over the instructions on how to use the soldering iron now...

  • Page 14: Chapter One - Soldering The Components

    Set the temperature to 250° Step 3 Once you're done with soldering (don't worry, we'll let you know when that time comes), you'll unplug the iron from the power outlet to turn it off. Please use the soldering iron stand every time you are not using the soldering iron to make sure you don't burn the surface or the circuit board! Make sure to not touch the soldering iron tip for at least five minutes after you have turned it off.
  • Page 15 Did you do it? Great!
  • Page 16 The main part of the console, besides the screen, is the buttons. You need to have some kind of input to move, shoot, dodge, and pause in the games. Buttons are the most commonly used input, and there are a total of 6 of them (nine if you include the Selection, Reset, and On-off button).
  • Page 17 Before soldering the pushbuttons, make sure that they are perpendicular (vertical) to the board. This is very important as you'll have trouble putting the protective casing on the device if the buttons are tilted. After placing the components in the right place (pins through the tiny holes), put the main board on the surface in front of you and pick up the soldering iron.
  • Page 18 This is how your circuit board should look after you've soldered all the pushbuttons on both sides. Check if you can click all of the buttons.
  • Page 19 So far, it's not doing anything, but soon enough, it will give life to your ByteBoi whenever you want it to. Take the switch and put the pins through the holes so that the switch lies on the front part of the circuit board and the pins stick out of the back.
  • Page 20 Is everything good? Great! Turn your console around, take the soldering iron from the stand, clean it using a sponge, and begin to solder the pins in the place. Soldering these pins requires a little bit more precision since they are so close together, so it's a lot easier to bridge them accidentally.
  • Page 21 After soldering all of the pins, try the switch a few times. It should click when switched on-off. Now is an excellent time to check all your soldering joints. Make sure there is no bridging and that every one of them looks alright. It won't be easy to fix them after we put the case on.
  • Page 22 Please put it in the same slot you previously pulled it out of. Press it gently until you feel the click. You can see that there are two identical slots on your circuit board. The other one is for the speaker, and we'll use it now.
  • Page 23 Take the circuit board and the speaker. Push it in the same way you did with the battery. So, gently until you feel the click. You did the first part of assembling your ByteBoi. Great job!

  • Page 24: Chapter Two - Input Test

    Turn on the ByteBoi! You can turn on your ByteBoi, but just for a few minutes. It's not time for the games and coding yet. You can turn it on by pushing an on-off button to the right, just like it says on the board.

  • Page 25: Chapter Three - Casing Up

     the Selection button (upper right) also. The next one is the sound test. If you hear a melody coming from ByteBoi, you should press button A. And the last test is the LEDs test. You should make sure all of the LED lights are working correctly.
  • Page 26 The first thing you need to do is to peel off the blue protective layers. As you can see, each of the acrylic casing parts has a protective layer on both sides that needs to be peeled off. They are not yet fully transparent, but they should be once you finish this step!
  • Page 27 First, we're going to put four acrylic casings on the backside of your ByteBoi. The acrylic panel that you need right now is easy to find - that's the one with all the holes in it. Please, take the casing shown in the photo below and the circuit board.
  • Page 28 Once again, you'll need to pull out the battery from the slot. You need to do this to pull the battery wire through one of the holes. Once you have pulled out the battery from the slot, take the acrylic casing and place it, so the arrow sign is facing to the right.
  • Page 29 Now, pull the battery wires through the casing as shown in the photo below:  Remember: the arrow sign has to be facing right...
  • Page 30 After you pull the wires through the casing, you can put the battery back in the slot. As we mentioned before, the battery is connected once you feel the click. Your ByteBoi should look like this by now:...
  • Page 31 The photo below shows the acrylic casing you're going to need next. It's the one shaped like a little man. Beware, the oval head-looking part is going on the right side of your ByteBoi. You'll need to pull the battery through the square-shaped hole. The speaker will go through the oval-shaped hole.
  • Page 32 Maybe you'll have some problems with the wires, but use a bit of strength to push them in the holes. Everything has to fit perfectly into the acrylic casing.
  • Page 33 Now, please take four golden spacers. You'll need to put them in the four small holes on the edges of the casing. Golden spacers should fall through all the casings you've already put on your ByteBoi. Your ByteBoi should look like this by now:...
  • Page 34 The next acrylic casing you're going to use is the one with the two holes; one square-shaped and one oval-shaped.
  • Page 35 Please place it in order the oval-shaped hole is placed over the speaker, and the square-shaped one is placed over the battery. Now, take the casing with a few small holes in it. The holes are placed over the speaker.
  • Page 37 That was the final casing for the back of the ByteBoi. Now, take four bolts (the smaller ones) and a screwdriver. You'll put the bolts in the same holes where you put golden spacers. Take your screwdriver and tighten the casing layer by screwing each small bolt.
  • Page 38 Now, let's move to the front side of ByteBoi. This is the perfect time to take of the protective layer from the screen. Here you're going to need a casing shown in the photo below:...
  • Page 39 Place it as shown on the photo. Your buttons and screen should fit perfectly through the casing. Now, take the one with the two square-shaped holes, and place it to fit the bigger hole on the left, where the four buttons are, and the smaller one on the right, where the two buttons are.
  • Page 40 It's time to put button caps on your buttons! Even though the console can work as-is, it would be much nicer to have a bit of a cleaner finish. The buttons are relatively small and aren't the most comfortable thing to hold. Therefore, we included some more comfortable button caps made out of plastic that will solve this issue.
  • Page 41 Take whichever color you want from the ones you've got. We choose to take the black ones for our ByteBoi.  Push them in until they make a clicking sound.
  • Page 42 This is how your ByteBoi should look once you put the button caps on: Finally, it's time to add the last casing layer, and by tightening that one, you'll connect the front side of your ByteBoi.
  • Page 43 For the final step in your ByteBoi assembling adventure, take four bolts (the bigger ones) and the screwdriver. Once again, put the bolts in the holes on the edges of ByteBoi, but make sure not to screw it too hard.
  • Page 44 And voila, your ByteBoi is done! Congratulations, you did a great job! We hope you had lots of fun assembling it. Optional step...
  • Page 45 You maybe noticed that you'd got one strap. If you want, you can put it on your ByteBoi. Here you can see how to do that.
  • Page 46 Let's play and code! Congratulation! You have just built your own retro gaming console - ByteBoi! We sincerely hope you liked the project so far because there's more coming. Now you can learn how to use ByteBoi's features and make your video games.
  • Page 47 Unfortunately, a coding guide is not available yet. We're working on it, and it will be available on our website at the beginning of December. Until then, we hope you had fun assembling your ByteBoi, and that you'll have lots of fun playing games!