Eight years after 2,154 backers soldered collectively the unique DIY telephone, CircuitMess returns with a sequel anybody can assemble in about two hours — and program in plain English, Python, or C++.
Middletown, Delaware, USA — September tenth, 2026 — CircuitMess at present launched its Kickstarter marketing campaign for MAKERphone 2.0, a completely purposeful 4G cell phone that arrives in items. Builders assemble it themselves in about two hours — no soldering and no expertise required — insert a nano-SIM, and it makes actual calls and sends actual texts on dwell mobile networks. Then comes the half no different telephone gives: its proprietor packages it, beginning by describing concepts in plain English in VibeBoy, CircuitMess’s AI-assisted coding studio, and progressing to actual Python and C++.
From Seven Hours of Soldering to a Two-Hour Construct
The unique MAKERphone, launched on Kickstarter in 2018, requested backers to spend roughly seven hours with a soldering iron — and a couple of,154 of them did. Eight years and suggestions from greater than 6,000 MAKERphone customers later, MAKERphone 2.0 retains the build-it-yourself soul and removes the limitations: each element clicks, screws, or plugs into place, guided by a LEGO-style illustrated guide and video guides. Alongside the way in which, builders study what a telephone truly is from the within out — the processor, the modem, the show, the battery.
A Cellphone With No Locked Doorways
Assembled, MAKERphone 2.0 is a whole traditional telephone: calls, texting, contacts, ringtones, alarms, a music participant, and greater than 10 built-in retro video games on a 1.77-inch colour show — 104 grams of open, hackable {hardware} constructed across the Arduino-compatible ESP32-S3. Its UMAX enlargement port takes six snap-on modules — Digital camera, Massive Speaker, Flashlight, Setting, Infrared, and a DIY Perf Board for customized circuits — every auto-detected the second it’s plugged in. An optionally available companion, the buildable MAKERband smartwatch, pairs with the MAKERphone in addition to iOS and Android, with 15 watchfaces, 5 mini-games, and telephone notifications.
For fogeys, it’s a first telephone that calls and texts the folks a toddler wants — with no social media, no app retailer, and no infinite feed. When a child desires a brand new app, they construct it.
Coding That Begins in Plain English
MAKERphone 2.0 is programmed by means of VibeBoy, CircuitMess’s AI-assisted coding studio: describe an concept in plain English — „make me a recreation the place a taco dodges falling pickles“ — watch AI write the code, and ship it to the telephone in a single click on. Then open that code, study to learn it, repair it, and make it your personal: a four-level studying ladder takes builders from Pixel Rookie (ages 9+) to Vibe Coder, writing their very own Python and C++ from a clean file. VibeBoy just isn’t autocomplete — it teaches customers how one can assume with AI: how one can describe issues, learn generated code, and proper it when it’s flawed. Each MAKERphone 2.0 comes with three months of limitless AI utilization and a free VibeBoy tier for all times.
The philosophy behind the product: MAKERphone 2.0 doesn’t struggle display time — it turns it into create time.
„The unique MAKERphone taught 1000’s of children {that a} telephone isn’t magic — it’s components and code, and each will be mastered,“ says Albert Gajšak, founder and CEO of CircuitMess. „MAKERphone 2.0 takes away the whole lot that used to face in the way in which. You construct it in a day, and with VibeBoy you can also make it do issues no telephone in any retailer can do — even in case you have by no means written a line of code.“
Prepared for Manufacturing, Not a Prototype
MAKERphone 2.0’s {hardware} design is full and ultimate manufacturing {hardware} exists; the software program is feature-complete and in ultimate testing. The Kickstarter marketing campaign funds manufacturing at scale, not R&D, and deliveries to backers are anticipated in Q3 2027. The marketing campaign gives backers unique early-bird pricing and restricted launch rewards.
To again the challenge, go to the MAKERphone 2.0 Kickstarter web page, or discover CircuitMess’s different kits at circuitmess.com.
About CircuitMess
CircuitMess is a workforce of engineers and designers primarily based in Karlovac, Croatia, based in 2017 by Albert Gajšak after a profitable Kickstarter marketing campaign for MAKERbuino. Its mission is popping youngsters — and youngsters at coronary heart — from tech customers into tech creators. CircuitMess has shipped greater than 300,000 kits to prospects in over 100 international locations, developed 37 merchandise, and raised over $2.2M throughout 6 Kickstarter campaigns, each single one delivered. Its kits have been featured in Forbes, TechCrunch, Wired, BBC, The Verge, The New York Occasions, Standard Science, Tom’s {Hardware}, and GameSpot. Discover out extra at www.circuitmess.com.
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