Wermy, who created the Game Boy Zero, has been blogging a how-to guide that shows you how to create your very own device using an old Game Boy and various parts. He has now finished the guide and you can read…
Category: Retro
SIMON – 80’s classic physical gaming with a Raspberry Pi
In 1980s, SIMON was all the rage. SIMON was a memory game in which segments of a circle lit up a particular colour in a particular sequence. The player then had to reproduce the exact same sequence to progress with…
Game Boy Zero with a Raspberry Pi – get yourself an old one and follow along!
Wermy, the creator of the brilliant Game Boy Zero has started to blog a ‘How To’ guide on sudomod.com. He starts out by taking a broken Game Boy and Dremelling it to add holes for the buttons and removing the battery…
Amazing GameBoy has a Raspberry Pi Zero inside
“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…
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…
Steam powered engine drives a Raspberry Pi Zero
This is a ridiculous project, but that doesn’t make it any less cool. “Alexzpro” has created a steam boiler (with water heated by two propane blow torches!) which drives a two-cylinder steam engine. The engine turns a motor which generates power.…
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…
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…