Woody's GBZ

[Woody]

Hi guys,

after finishing my first Gameboy mod with a RPi 3 in it, i literally got hooked and now it was time for the "second edition".

Just so you know what the first one is looking like, here are a few pictures of it.







With my second attempt i wanted to try something different, so i found wermys mod with the working cartridge.
I immediately loved the idea of a functioning cartridge, but still wanted to make something rather unique.
So my thought was why not putting the whole RPi0 in a cartridge?
And that is what i ended up doing.
I'll show you my progress, so far - it works!
Or at least it powers on and shows a picture. I'm having a big trouble getting the USB-Hub to work, maybe it's broken?

Another thing i wanted to do is keeping the battery compartment fully intact to use AA NiMh-Batteries with it.
I used 3 of them to get 3.6V. It charges and runs, haven't tried yet how long they'll last.
Regardless, enough talk - let's see some pictures!















Oh and it seems like i have a completely different monitor, after cutting the control-board looks like this:



Looking forward to hear your opinion!

Cheers

[1461748123]

Hey, remember to copy the image url instead of the album url for the images!
Read the tutorial carefully: http://www.sudomod.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=185

[Ganreizu]

So my thought was why not putting the whole RPi0 in a cartridge?
And that is what i ended up doing.
I'll show you my progress, so far - it works!

Wuuuuut.

Never would i have thought this is what would happen after these forums were made. Congrats on that good sir.

Edit: IS THAT A BLUE BATTERY INDICATOR BAR WITH LED RIGHT AT THE COMPARTMENT?! WUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUT

[Woody]

Hey, remember to copy the image url instead of the album url for the images!
Read the tutorial carefully: http://www.sudomod.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=185

Sorry, fixed it.

[Camble]

Very clever, Woody! Someone has a bunch more space inside for other stuff!

[Retrohead95]

Never would have thought of this. Do you plan on adding connectors to connect the interior components to the pi or are you just gonna hard wire it?

[Fleder]

I am really interested in how you are going to manage the cartridge to body connection.
What did you use in your cartridge beside the RPi0? Is that the upper part of the Button Board where the Display was connected?

Would it be possible to just wire the RPi0 to the cartridge pins somehow, so you could reuse the original connection and pins?

Anyways, really nice idea and good work!

[Villemus]

That's a great idea with the NiMH batteries. You might be able to put in all 4 (2.4V, 4800mAH) and get more battery life out of them. According to the Adafruit PowerBoost product info, you should be fine with that voltage.