sudomod

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 control types, otherwise I'd have used GPIOnext for controls.

What's in the box!
Side aperture for SD card
A single power point (12v for screen which gets knocked down via a switching voltage regulator to 5v for the pi zero)
The final result -

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?

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..

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.

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.