“Chad McChad” (not, I suspect, his real name!) has done an absolutely awesome job creating a retro gaming machine out of an old GameBoy and plenty of other parts, as well as a core of a Raspberry Pi Zero. This is…
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Tiny Gameboy-style device with a Raspberry Pi Zero inside
Rasmus Hauschild from Denmark was 14 years old when I previously featured another build of his on the blog. This time he has gone small with a 3D-printed Gameboy case running RetroPie called Pi Zero Gameboy Nano. Inside is a Raspberry Pi…
Raspberry Pi retro gaming table built from IKEA furniture
Over on the Element 14 community, Spencer (spannerspencer) has documented his build of a retro gaming table. The original table is one of those square Lack coffee tables from IKEA (the ones everybody has got, it seems) and he has added the…
Whack-a-Pi – Raspberry Pi gaming writ large
Carl Monk brought along this great game to the Big Birthday Weekend. Basically, each large arcade button lights up and you hit it with your hand to score a point. With a Raspberry Pi detecting hits and playing the Mission: Impossible…
Motorised Connect 4 game using a Raspberry Pi
David Pride decided he wanted to hack something both fun and complicated and so decided to build a motorised Connect 4 game. Called 4-Bot, the project allows a human player to play the Raspberry Pi at the popular game. The Pi works…
Raspberry Pi Zero inside a SNES controller
James Poole decided to take an old SNES controller and cram a Raspberry Pi Zero inside it, creating a portable games console. Read how he did it here.
Retro gaming Raspberry Pi Zero crammed into an Altoids tin
Sometimes you see a project that just makes you smile. This is one such. As you can see from the video above, it’s a mini Raspberry Pi Zero-powered retro gaming machine crammed into an Altoids tin. Not much detail other…
New Kickstarter aims to bring retro gaming controller for the Raspberry Pi Zero to market
Tony from dtronixs.com got in touch with me to tell me about their new Kickstarter. It’s called the R-Kade Zero and it is a range of gaming controllers that fit neatly on top of the Raspberry Pi Zero to allow you to…
Nintendo GameCube with a Raspberry Pi inside
Andreas Jabs from Germany has taken an old GameCube and retro-fitted it with a Raspberry Pi 2. He has brought the Pi’s USB ports to the front of the case so that he can attach various controllers and has 3D…
iPhone game played automatically with a Raspberry Pi and a Gertbot
Junya Sakamoto wanted a little help with the later levels of Puzzle & Dragons (which is big in Japan). So he added a Gertbot to his Raspberry Pi and then hooked up some motors and a rig to allow the Pi to…