3D Printed PiGRRL - Raspberry Pi Gameboy

coop0030 (263345) writes "Celebrate the 25th anniversary of the classic gaming device, Game Boy, by building your own with 3d printing and DIY electronics. This project uses a Raspberry Pi and TFT touch screen to make an epic DIY Game Girl. The 3d printed enclosure houses all of the components and can be printed in your favorite color. It's controlled with SNES gaming controller components, reusing the printed circuit board, buttons and elastomers. The 3D files can be found on Thingiverse, and a video of the finished product is provided as well."

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This looks interisting..... but wai....

[del_diablo]

>Game boy
>3D shell for Raspberry Pi to run a emulator
Please don't mix the too together.

Slick, but depends on a good SNES controller

[drinkypoo]

There's no shortage of those yet but they're really nice controllers as-is, they have a zillion purposes without being cannibalized. And these days you can buy controller parts for a song, so it would be nice to see the design adapted to use some readily available controller replacement parts instead. It would cost only a few bucks more, even assuming a free SNES controller.

ROM

[tepples]

Then don't pirate Mario games. Instead, download homebrew ROMs, some of which are free open source software.

Re:ROM

[Nemyst]

Not to burst your bubble, but there's a reason people download Mario ROMs and other such popular games: they're actually enjoyable. I've seen the open source stuff and it's between average and miserable.

Re:ROM

[Anonymous Coward]

I've had a NES, SNES and GBA emulator on near all my personal computers since highschool. At various times I've tried hundreds of games, most of which for less than an hour.

There's 12 games I have that I play on occasion still, the only ones I ever do now. 4 are mario titles, a zelda, metroid, megaman and other franchises still out today. I _could_ rebuy most of these and be tied to the wii store, but I spent weeks washing cars to get some of those titles originally. The two I didn't own as a child, I even tracked down at pawn stores at some stage.

I don't consider myself a pirate, I'm a technologist that's managed to keep my games alive long after the hardware died. (I seem to be in the minority that managed to actually destroy these, but they joined in much of the rough and tumble with my brothers over the years)

Re: Grrrl

[LordLimecat]

Epic AC fight here, tickets $5.

Dude are you gonna take that from him?

Safety first

[Misagon]

The tutorial shows cutting a PCB from a SNES controller into three parts.
When cutting PCBs (and other things of fiberglass), it is important not to inhale the dust - in the worst case, fiberglass dust can cause lung cancer.

The tutorial recommends a dust mask, but does not mention how important it is.
I always use a dust mask and a vacuum cleaner with HEPA filter running with the nozzle right next to the workpiece when I cut PCBs.
Also, don't do it where you live, and do collect the dust that settles.

Re:gotta shove feminism into everything don't you.

[TheRaven64]

Underpowered? The Gameboy had a 4.19MHz Z80-like chip. You could happily emulate it on a 66MHz 486 without taxing the host. The ARM11 in the RPi is massively overpowered for this use! I don't really understand what the feminism you're seeing here is.