

Once you have all of those assembled, simply place it in the shell as instructed, and then click them into place with the circular plastic holders. Should you want four extra buttons, there’s also a LightKey module that goes onto the back of the LEGO-inspired rear shell. Both the stereo speakers and battery components also have their own clamshell holder. Next, you’ll put the keypad into its own modular clamshell holder with the board.

Before assembling the mainboard’s clamshell, make sure the included 16GB microSD card is put in. First, you’ll put together the crisp 2.7″ (320 x 240) IPS display, and since each PCB piece of the GameShell unit is labeled, you definitely won’t get confused.

Assembling everything together and ensuring that it ran smoothly will take you around 1.5-hours, or slightly longer should there be any small snags. The star of the show is a new CPI Mainboard v3.1, which features a quad-core Cortex-A7 CPU, ATmega168p programmable keypad, integrated Wi-Fi / Bluetooth, 1GB of DDR3 RAM, a 16GB microSD pre-loaded with ClockworkPi OS (Linux kernel 4.1), a micro HDMI output, 3.5mm headphone jack, and a 1200 mAh rechargeable battery.
