RertroPico is "yet another" rp2040 handeld device.
The whole project was done by myself, and I'm very proud of it. This includes familiarizing with microcontrollers, writing a cross platform framework for linux and the chosen one (rp2040), porting some emulators, designing a pcb and finally buying, designing and printing a 3d case for it.
The main goal was to make a cheap handheld capable of running a few 8 bit consoles on a homemade tiny device, which can be "easily" (with a few soldering skills) done at a reasonable price. Finally, it would be totally open source, of course. The cost of the device is currently ~40€ for the components (and shipping). Building instructions and documentation is in the work.
The "retropico" os currently support four 8 bits consoles inducing the nes, gameboy, master system and game gear. While a lot of work has been put into porting the emulated systems (including 60fps, sram support, ...), the emulation is far from perfect. A few games won't run, more will have graphical glitches, but the fun is here.
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- 6 x 6x6x5mm "Mute Switch Silicone Keypad Push Button Switch 2Pins Silent Switches" (pic, link)
- 1 x 9x3.5x3.5mm "3 Feet 2 Gears, Handle Length 2MM Side Patch Slide Switch" (pic, link)
- 5 x 3x6x4.3mm "SMD Tactile Tact Push Button Switch 2Pin" (pic, link)
- 1 x 1.25mm "JST Connector Horizontal SMD Socket 1.25 Pitch Pin Header 2P" (pic, link)
- 1 x "TFT IPS LCD Display Module 1.54 inch 240x240 SPI ST7789" (pic, link)
- 1 x "Micro SD Card Mini TF Card Reader Module SPI interfaces with level converter chip 5V/3.3V" (pic, link)
- 1 x "High Quality MAX98357 MAX98357A I2S 3W Class D Amplifier Breakout Interface I2S DAC Decoder for Audio" (pic, link)
- 1 x "Waveshare RP2040-Plus 16MB" (pic, link)
- 1 x "Ultra Thin Mini Speaker 8 ohm 2 Watt 2W 8R Speaker Diameter 20MM" (pic, link)
- 1 x "EEMB Batterie 3.7V 820mAh 653042 Batterie Lipo 3.7V" (or similar size: 44x30.5x6.8mm) (pic, link)
- 1 x RetroPico PCB (pic, TODO)
- 1 x RetroPico Case (TODO)
I use JetBrains CLion IDE for all my open sources projects, thanks for the support !