Sandy Macdonald has done another one of his beautifully-written posts. This time, he’s taken on Pimoroni’s Picade, the build-it-yourself retro gaming console. He covers the hardware, including assembly, and the software as well as how he modded his console with…
Category: Retro
Turning a fridge into a retro gaming console with a Raspberry Pi
Daniel d’Entremont has done something faintly ridiculous. He’s taken a small, working fridge, cut a hole for a screen and some more holes for buttons and turned it into a Game Boy-lookalike console. He admits that it’s all a bit…
Walnut-cased Raspberry Pi model A+ gaming consoles
Love Hulten is a Swedish designer and craftsman who loves to fuse together technology and more traditional materials. He’s just unveiled his latest two creations. The first is called the PE358 and is inspired by the Game Boy Advance. It…
Wine barrel becomes an arcade cabinet with a Raspberry Pi
Adelaide-based Matt Shaw wanted an arcade machine of his very own. His solution? Take an old wine barrel and adapt it for the purpose. He used a work-surplus monitor as a display and then cut a form-fitting fibreboard box to…
Hardcore 3D printed retro gaming console with a Raspberry Pi
James Drachenberg, founder of Dragon Mountain Design decided he wanted to build his own “Gameboy” retro gaming console. He decided, though, to 3D-print his case and make it a bit different to the norm, as you can see from the picture.…
Wooden Game Boy Advance, Raspberry Pi-style
Ryan Bates decided he wanted a retro gaming machine. Instead of going the usual route of taking an old console or handheld, he wanted to go bigger… much bigger. So started his build of a wooden Game Boy Advance – 300%…
3D printed portable Raspberry Pi games console
I’ve featured a few of these before, but this one looks particularly nice. Rasmus Hauschild is 14 years old and from Denmark. He has created a portable retro games console with the Pi and some nifty 3D printing. He has posted up…
Reinvigorating a vintage radio with a Raspberry Pi
Gordon from IQAudIO has done a bang-up job at restoring his late grandmother’s vintage Roberts radio. He’s used one of IQAudIO’s own boards, the Pi-DigiAMP+ and a pair of small speakers to output music from a variety of online sources via Shairport Sync software…
Raspberry Pi/RetroPi gaming machine tutorial
Spencer Organ has written up a great tutorial on creating a retro gaming machine from a Raspberry Pi and a small composite monitor. It adds a nice method for building the machine to some other tutorials and brings it all together.…
Super-sized Gameboy runs from a Raspberry Pi
Brussels-based Ilhan Ünal (Raz) was inspired to create a giant replica of Nintendo’s GameBoy. He’s used a Raspberry Pi and an old desktop monitor to do it and installed Retropie to drive the games. The case is made out of MDF…