Hex's 2nd Build, Christmas Special CardyPi

[Hex]

Hey guys, this is my second cardboard build and rocks a minimal look. It runs a custom frontend called Viper. Lets make the pictures do the talking.

The Front faceShow

The buttonsShow

Buttons sealed in front plateShow

The rear plateShow

Components mounted on the rear plateShow

But there were some problem with the powerboost 500c and it crashed once the Pi booted up but powering with USB worked as expected.



LCD test before closing

Nice and sealed picsShow

Size comparison with a Pi zero. Green and blue buttons are mapped to start and select. The A buttons hole was a tad bit bigger than expected; had to improvise. the screen is 2.2inch SPI 320x240


Side view has HDMI out, MicroUSB Power in, Indicator LED and Full size usb port.


From the top we have a switch, charging and done charging LEDs

The Viper frontendShow

The frontend Viper has two Systems view that can be used currently. This one is Pages View and the one bellow is List View



The Gamelist View has optional Boxart images support



Viper also has theming support so different systems look different

Hope you guys liked it. I had lot of fun making this simplistic build.

Config :

• Raspberry pi Zero
• 2.2 inch 324x240 SPI LCD
• 8 buttons (GB/GBC/NES style)
• Mono speaker
• Ability to broadcast all audio over FM
• TP4056 Battery charger + 1000mAh battery
• Full size USB otg female port

Cost breakdown:

• Battery 5$
• Switch 1$
• Pi 5$
• SD card (variable)
• TP4056 1$
• LCD 6$
• buttons 1.50$
• speaker 1$

total ~ 20.50$

[DieselDummy]

This is cool.

[VeteranGamer]

love it....

now i was going to say....
i like the thinking outside the box, but not sure if it should be thinking inside the box (either way, i like it)

also liking the simple frontend (great for the smaller screens)



ps... and a point to all, you dont have to spend big to pull of a build....
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[Double0EK]

Cool build! I was thinking of using one of these..

https://goo.gl/images/sEhmmD

[Hex]

Yea why not. Would work well. Plus it would be easily serviceable is case of problems

[abrugsch]

how did you spend $5 on a BL-5C? or did it come with a 'free' phone (surely you could've got that down to practically ~$0 by either digging through your (or a friend's) box of old phones... (almost everybody has a box of old nokias don't they?)