Manchester, UK

Hi, I've been tinkering with a third GBZ (even though my second isn't finished :)) - really because I had all the parts and I wanted to test the super cheap pro-micro clones I got. In doing this I've written quite a nice little program for handling multiple input modes - accessed by long-pressing a ...

plan to stick some electric tape over the general power on LED.

Yes that's the one I meant - I just popped mine off (and the ones on the Teesny) with a fine scalpel.
I'd figured you meant to be able to see the others at the top

The shield was there to prevent electromagnetic radiation escaping the device, just electrical radiation regulations really - the bit of writing on the back of the case refers to it. "Complies with the limits for a class B computing device pursuant to Subpart J of Part 15 of EEC Rules" FCC Part 15 i...

You would need to give a little more information to help you - but it should be fairly trivial - what hardware are you using e.g. Raspberry PI, Teensy, etc? The basic idea is that you would just wire up a button with two wires one to its signal pin and the other to its ground pin. The signal wire wo...

Hey, Figured I'd say hi here as I've been posting on a few threads. My name is Fraser and I live in the UK. I work as a software developer mainly in nodejs these days but I have previously worked in c, c++ and done quite a lot of work with embedded systems. I first learnt BASIC, then ZX81 assembly, ...

I really like the idea of putting another tactile switch in the original power-in hole in the case and making a separate hole for the new micro usb. May well steal that idea! The build looks really sweet - very profesional.

Did the screen come with any kind of data sheet or packaging, maybe the manufactures website?

If not then try running: It should list the actual resolutions the screen supports (the current one will be marked with an asterisk).

Out of interest, why would you use software to do this? On a Mac or Linux you can just use the dd command to write an image. i.e. sudo dd if=/home/RetroPie.img of=/dev/yourdisk bs=1m Where /home/RetroPie.img is your image file and /dev/yourdisk is the path to your SD card. It is important to make su...

You could try forcing the frame buffer to the resolution of the screen. What I have found is that quite a few of the 3.5" composite screens are not actually 320 x 240 - they are a little under - for example the ones I have are actually 320 x 234. To set the frame buffer open up /boot/config.txt and ...