mackemint wrote: ↑

Sun Jan 03, 2021 5:36 am

Very cute!
What's the 12VDC for? Did you sneak in a buck converter in between the pics? ;D

Bare metal PICO-8 sounds fascinating, have to explore this concept further..

The screen needs 12v - there is indeed a switching voltage regulator in there to knock that down to 5v for the pi zero.

paddle0 wrote: ↑

Sat Jan 02, 2021 3:25 pm

This is completely awesome. What kind of case and buttons did you use? How did you do the case graphics? Is there a way to safely shut it down?

Buttons are standard 24mm Sanwa. Case is an ABS enclosure from Digikey. I just turn it off and had no problems yet.

They are a sticky cold laminated textured vinyl. www.arcadeartshop.com can print your designs on the same material.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iAd-YTAv_8

I did this a few years ago...

I'll try another cable. The one I'm using was brand new from Amazon, but doesn't have an amperage rating on it...

Thanks!

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...

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'...

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 ...

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...

Very clever! Fooled me at first - I was thinking "Where's the controls?"