The screen needs 12v - there is indeed a switching voltage regulator in there to knock that down to 5v for the pi zero.
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- Fri Mar 05, 2021 3:08 pm
- Forum: Show-off Corner
- Topic: Pico 8 Console
- Replies: 4
- Views: 8269
Re: Pico 8 Console
- Fri Mar 05, 2021 3:07 pm
- Forum: Show-off Corner
- Topic: Pico 8 Console
- Replies: 4
- Views: 8269
Re: Pico 8 Console
Buttons are standard 24mm Sanwa. Case is an ABS enclosure from Digikey. I just turn it off and had no problems yet.
- Wed Jan 13, 2021 4:49 pm
- Forum: Show-off Corner
- Topic: Vectrex Joystick Controllers
- Replies: 2
- Views: 7659
Re: Vectrex Joystick Controllers
They are a sticky cold laminated textured vinyl. www.arcadeartshop.com can print your designs on the same material.
- Sat Jan 09, 2021 3:42 pm
- Forum: Show-off Corner
- Topic: Frogger VFD ‘upgrade’
- Replies: 0
- Views: 6379
- Fri Jan 01, 2021 7:47 am
- Forum: Raspberry Pi
- Topic: pi 3a+ power consumption?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 7103
Re: pi 3a+ power consumption?
I'll try another cable. The one I'm using was brand new from Amazon, but doesn't have an amperage rating on it...
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- Thu Dec 31, 2020 7:30 am
- Forum: Raspberry Pi
- Topic: pi 3a+ power consumption?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 7103
pi 3a+ power consumption?
I was getting the low power icon with my pi3a+ joystick build. I'm using a regular usb plug to the wall (like a phone charger thing) which goes to a panel mount plug and then into the micro usb of the pi. I got a 2a plug and I'm still getting it. I have no other perihperals plugged into the pi's oth...
- Wed Dec 30, 2020 9:29 am
- Forum: Show-off Corner
- Topic: Vectrex Joystick Controllers
- Replies: 2
- Views: 7659
Vectrex Joystick Controllers
Seeing as the origibnal Vectrex controllers are analog and there's only 2 original analog games - I thought we needed a decent digital arcade style stick for the vectrex. I use these boxes on nearly all of the sticks I make and vary the overlays,buttons,balltops. Seeing as the boxes are quite 'mini'...
- Wed Dec 30, 2020 8:57 am
- Forum: Show-off Corner
- Topic: Pico 8 Console
- Replies: 4
- Views: 8269
Pico 8 Console
I love the idea of Pico 8 as a 'fantasy' console that never was - but I went and made a 'real' one! I used a bare metal version of Pico 8 for the Pi by the late Guillermo Amaral, so it loads in about 10 seconds. Has a usb nes pad hack iniside for controls. Very limited by the bare metal version for ...
- Wed Dec 30, 2020 8:45 am
- Forum: Show-off Corner
- Topic: Vectrex Asteroids Controllers
- Replies: 0
- Views: 6095
Vectrex Asteroids Controllers
Here are some controllers I made for the Vectrex. They are meant for playing a number of games on the Vectrex, but mainly of rthe arcade ports of the Asteroids type games on the special VECFEVER cart. The first prototype - IMG_0286.JPG The standard types (arcade upright RWB & cabaret b&w) IMG_0062.j...
- Wed Dec 30, 2020 8:40 am
- Forum: Show-off Corner
- Topic: I invented a new handheld layout!
- Replies: 3
- Views: 8679
Re: I invented a new handheld layout!
Very clever! Fooled me at first - I was thinking "Where's the controls?"