Here’s a great Instructable for those who are a bit put-off by soldering. It’s a full RetroPie gaming machine, with button controls, that uses a Raspberry Pi Zero. However, no soldering, 3D printing or laser-cutting is required – just some…
I love a bit of steampunk, so this laptop caught my eye. Okay, so maybe you’d never want it on your lap, per se, but it’s still absolutely gorgeous. “Phrazelle” is the mind behind it and he created it for…
The Pi Hut has just announced the launch of a Retro Gaming bundle that is ideal for those looking to get into the world of playing retro games on the Raspberry Pi. The bundle, which retails for £60, includes: Raspberry…
NinjaBunny9000 has created a life-sized replica of BMO from Adventure Time. The case is 3D printed and the buttons on the front are routed via the innards of a generic SNES controller. The battery can last for around 24 hours…
John Cooper from York Hackspace has created a tabletop Tetris game for their space. It uses a Raspberry Pi 2 to control strips of Neopixel-like LEDs which sit in little foam cube holes beneath the translucent tabletop surface. It’s low-resolution but it…
Recently announced on Kickstarter, the Raspi Boy is a handheld, battery-powered, Raspberry Pi-driven retro gaming console. It comes as a pre-soldered kit to assemble, with a moulded case and custom circuit board. It doesn’t come with a Raspberry Pi Zero…
Jeff Harris recently identified a severe problem with Slack: there isn’t a client for the Commodore 64. I know, crazy, huh? So, he decided to write one in 6502 assembly. Using a C64 Userport device, he’s connected the Commodore to a…
Michael Lyons from Florida has taken a second-hand Radica Sega Genesis system (which he bought off eBay for a dollar), prised it apart, removed the innards and replaced them with a Raspberry Pi 3. And all in one sitting! He’s recorded…
Over at sudomod.com, banjokazooie has been sharing photographs of his latest build. It is a Wii U gamepad with the innards taken out and replaced with a Raspberry Pi 3 and some other components. He’s put RetroPie on the finished result…
D10D3 on Imgur (and Twitter) has taken an old (non-functioning) Commodore 64, a Raspberry Pi 3, various connectors and some custom-fabricated bits and pieces and created his very own version of the Ono-Sendai Cyberspace 7 cyberdeck from cyberpunk author William Gibson’s Sprawl…
