Tijuana Rick’s father-in-law found a 1969 Wurlitzer 3100 Jukebox, for free but without the original 45s. Together, they refurbished the Jukebox and then set about turning it into a media centre. They used an Arduino Mega to read button presses which…
Over on Reddit, ecefour posted about his project in which he’s squeezed a Raspberry Pi Zero W, various other electrical components and a screen inside a Texas Instruments TI-83+ calculator. He’s got it running RetroPie and he’s wired the calculator…
Joe Herman has taken an old film projector, a Raspberry Pi, a camera module and a stepper motor and created a machine that will help to convert 8mm and 16mm film reels into a digital format. He had to re-focus…
Matt Brailsford (aka Circuitbeard) has taken an old motorised game, the Tomy Turnin’ Turbo Dashboard, embedded a Raspberry Pi inside and turned it into a fully-working Out Run games console. Here’s an excerpt from his blog post in which he describes…
In 1978, a tape-driven computer known as the Sharp MZ-80K was created. The MZ has a 2 MHz CPU, a massive 20 KB of RAM, and a built-in monochrome monitor. Just a few years later, in 1981, Yasushi Enari (Panda Precision),…
Stephen Lovely has just blogged a great interview with the creators of RetroPie, the retro gaming operating system for the Raspberry Pi. It’s really interesting and deals with the development of the software, the team behind it, trademark disputes and…
Here’s a nice project, but you’ll possibly need access to a laser cutter or CNC machine, or the know-how to get it done for you over the Internet. The Brothers McKenty have taken inspiration from old telegraph machines and built…
Matthias Ladkau has created a portable retro gaming machine using a Raspberry Pi 3 and a custom-designed 3D-printed case. He’s called it the Spieljunge. It runs RetroPie to emulate loads of gaming machines and features a variety of small 3D-printed…
I follow PJ Evans on Twitter and he posted up a picture of his latest project: an Atari 2600 console made out of a Raspberry Pi Zero embedded in an Atari game cartridge. He has since blog-posted an account of the…
When creating your own RetroPie gaming system, it can often be difficult to decide which of the 1000s of available games to install on your SD card. Matt, from Raspberry Pi Spy, has compiled a list of some of his favourites.…
