One person, keeping retro gaming hardware alive.

I'm Aaron. I started Cajun Panda because I wanted to display a Game Boy collection on a shelf and couldn't find a stand that actually held the console at the right angle. So I designed one and printed it. Then I designed one for the GBA SP. Then someone asked if they could buy one.

That was three years ago. The workshop covers three kinds of work now: display stands and accessories, custom hardware mods, and one-of-one console restorations. Restoration is the center of it. Consoles come in as estate-sale bulk lots, get triaged on arrival, and the ones worth saving are recapped, cleaned, and re-shelled, then tested on a real cartridge before they go up for sale.

The mods grow out of that same bench time. Staying elbow-deep in 30-year-old boards is what makes a new design feel right when it touches original hardware. The Bluetooth NES Advantage was the first: an ESP32 board that makes a 1987 arcade controller wireless without changing how it plays. The designs are open source, so you can build your own or have me build it for you.

Everything is for sale right here, shipped straight from the workshop. No middleman and no marketplace markup: you're buying it from the person who built it.

Aaron