Raspberry Pi Gaming Console

Raspberry Pi is cheap and full of possibilities. There are many fun exciting projects that people have done on the Raspberry Pi, one of them I found really creative is turning the Raspberry Pi into gaming console.

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Many classic gaming console have been made by clever raspbery pi users. I have made a list of these interesting  projects I found on the internet. Let me know if I am missing any awesome projects in this post.

Arcade Game Cabinet

The Picade is a self-assembly arcade cabinet started won funding on Kickstarter.

The Picade is currently at the prototype stage and needs funding from Kickstarter to improve the manufacturing process and to develop a custom printed circuit board.

PORTABLE GAMING CONSOLE

Ben Heckendorn of The Ben Heck Show take us through how he built a portable gaming console powered by a raspberry pi. In his show, you will be shown how to turn this Linux-running portable computer into a GameBoy looking portable game console. You can check out his videos.

Raspberry Pi Game Boy

This project was done by a Raspberry Pi Forum user, he calls this game console the GamePi.

The parts he used are

• 2S LiPo 1300maH (7.4V) with a 78S05 voltage regulator
• Display: 3,5″ LCD

More detail can be found here.

Tiny Video Game Cabinet

The brilliant gaming arcade has a tiny 128×32 white OLED to display, which looks awesome.

To make his gaming cabinet portable, the author had to use his old cell phone batteries with a self designed charging circuit. When the power supply is connected to 5V, the batteries are charged.

Fore more info you can found out here.