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Raspberry Pi Retro Gaming Guide: Build Your Own Console
A new Raspberry Pi Press book shows how to emulate hundreds of consoles, wire DB9 joysticks and build an arcade cabinet. Here is the…
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Doom Runs on a $30 Clamp Meter With Just 32 KB of RAM
A $30 clamp meter with 32 KB of RAM now runs Doom natively. Here is how the port works and what to try on…
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Build a Square PICO-8 Handheld with a Pi Zero 2 W
A Pi Zero 2 W, a 720 x 720 square IPS screen, and a custom PCB turn PICO-8 into a real pocket console. See…
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Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W PICO-8 Handheld With a Square 720×720 Screen
A Pi Zero 2 W, an 18650 cell and a square 720x720 screen turn PICO-8 into a pocket console. Here's how UncleStem built it…
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Brass Tubing Is the Frame and the Ground in This ESP32 Handheld
No PCB, no printed shell. Huy Vector bent 2 mm brass tubing into a handheld console frame and used the metal itself as the…
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Arduboy’s $39 CHGame Rev0: A RISC-V Handheld Built for Hacking
Arduboy's CHGame Rev0 is a $39 bare-board handheld: 48 MHz RISC-V, a 128x128 color LCD, and every GPIO pin broken out for hacking.
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An ESP32-P4 Runs Doom While Claude Sonnet Fumbles the Controls
A 51-ray depth scan, an ASCII automap, and a WebSocket that freezes the game between moves. That is everything Claude Sonnet gets to survive…
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Three Corroded WiiMotes, One Working Controller and an ESP32-S3
Three bug-infested, battery-acid-ruined WiiMotes went into the teardown. One working controller came out. Here is the cleanup chemistry and the I2C bus behind it.
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Build a Retro Handheld Inside an NES Gamepad with an ESP32-S2
A dead NES-style controller hides a full ESP32-S2 emulator that plays 8-bit classics and Doom for about $17. Here is the weekend build.
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A Retro Game Console Crammed Inside an NES Gamepad (ESP32-S2)
Logic Gate Labs squeezed a full ESP32-S2 handheld emulator (and Doom) into an empty NES gamepad shell for about $17. Here is how the…
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Portable Commodore 64: A Raspberry Pi 3 Retro Handheld Build
A Raspberry Pi 3 plus a Pico turns the classic Commodore 64 into a solder-free portable handheld you can wire up and play over…
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Building a Handheld Commodore 64 on a Raspberry Pi 3 and Pico
Retro Dad packed a full Commodore 64 into a Raspberry Pi 3 handheld, with real joystick ports, a Pico signal bridge, and no soldering…