Tuesday, August 30, 2016
Project PiGear v1.0: Portable PI / handheld retro arcade system
After winning a few bids on a handful of busted Gamegears on ebay, I ended up restoring 2 of them (by recapping and swapping out some components). This is the result of the others.
This will serve as a prototype and reference for future projects, which will incorporate a custom designed 3D printed case, that will house the same hardware.
Description:
A portable, robust, handheld, raspberry pi based retro arcade system that also doubles as a media player.
Main Components:
- Raspberry Pi 3
- Highly modified SEGA Gamegear case
- Waveshare 5 inch HDMI LCD screen
- Adafruit Powerboost 1000C
- Adafruit 3.7W Class D Stereo Amplifier
- 8 OHM 1W stereo speakers x2
- Teensy 2.0 USB development board
Batteries:
- Revtronic 2600mAh Li-On battery x2
Storage:
- Kingston 64 GB USB Drive
- Samsung Extreme 64 GB MicroSD
Misc/Other:
- 3.5mm Audio jack
- Female USB socket x2
- LED red
- Adafruit Breadboard-friendly SPDT slide switch
- 300 OHM resistor x2
- .100" spacing 2 pin header strip x4
- .100" spacing proto-board
- Tactile switches x4
- Superglue (plastic surgery)
- JB Weld (Epoxy)
- 4-40 screws
- 4-40 standoffs (nylon)
- Copper wire (both stranded and solid Gage 25-30)
- Shrink wraps
- hot glue
Tools used:
- Dremel
- Power drill
- Screwdriver
- Exacto knife
- Wire strippers
- Tweezers
- Needle nose pliers
- Magnifying glass (helping hands)
- METCAL soldering station
- Kester .015" Rosin core solder
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