There’s lots of retro projects out there – you’ll have seen a lot of them on this blog before! Here’s another! 🙂 Zach has taken an NES cartridge (Back to the Future… because it’s not very good!), ripped the guts…
Category: Retro
Raspberry Pi Zero used for the world’s smallest MAME Arcade Cabinet
Over at Adafruit, Philip Burgess has blogged about a marvellous little project involving a Raspberry Pi Zero. And when I say “little”, I mean “little”! They’ve used the Zero, together with a 0.96″ OLED display, an amplifier, some tiny speakers and…
All That Jazz – retro project playing archival music through a Raspberry Pi
James Bellafaire wanted something that would play jazz music “all day and all night” and give him an authentic experience at the same time. So, he found an old 1930s radio on eBay, won the auction and refurbished the case.…
Old radio converted into a bedroom clock using a Raspberry Pi Zero
Andy Felong has converted an old 1942 Crosley Radio into a Raspberry Pi Zero-powered media centre and then used an attached display to display the time and outside temperature (using the Weather Underground API). Read how he did it here.
Playing chiptunes with an old chip and a Raspberry Pi
The General Instrument AY-3-8910 is a sound chip that appeared in old home computers and game consoles. Vince Weaver has taken the chip and hooked it up to a Raspberry Pi and then added bar graphs and a matrix display for…
Raspberry Pi Zero used to bring new life to GameBoy Advance
Over on Imgur, user Ryzee119 has documented the process of turning a GameBoy Advance into a Pi-powered retro gaming console. Chosen primarily because of the shoulder buttons, the GBA has had its guts ripped out and replaced by a couple of custom…
Build a retro radio that talks in riddles with a Raspberry Pi
Designed to be part of an ‘escape room’, the Retro Radio Riddle is a retro radio set with it’s insides taken out and replaced with a Raspberry Pi and some custom circuitry. As the user twists the dial, they find…
Follow along with this excellent PSP / Raspberry Pi Zero build
Over at OtherMod.com, the blog owner has been tearing down and rebuilding a Sony PSP and retrofitting it with a Raspberry Pi Zero. I love projects like this: taking broken technology and using some Pi magic to make it usable…
Miniaturised gaming console with a Raspberry Pi inside is a thing of beauty
DaftMike has created a miniaturised version of the classic NES (Nintendo Entertainment System) and used a Raspberry Pi to play retro games. At 40% of the original size, this is a lovely small build accomplished using a 3D printer. He…
11-year old makes Raspberry Pi in a tin gaming machine
11-year old Elijah wanted to create a retro gaming machine that was tough enough to survive trips and being shoved into a bag, and cheap enough that he could give them away as gifts. To do this, he turned to…