Raspberry Pi Zero production is restarting in Wales next Monday after a hiatus to allow us to focus on Raspberry Pi 3 (a million units built and counting). Oh – and to preempt Pi Zero stock woe in the comments, we’ve got some news from Eben:
Wermy’s documenting the build here (and running a giveaway so you can win one of these gorgeous little things): head over to read more! Wermy’s added three buttons inside the case to control brightness, colour and contrast, along with a USB Bluetooth adaptor – it’s a tight fit to get everything inside the case, but he’s done a stand-up job. The screen’s a little composite display from Adafruit, which was a little larger than the original display, and required some careful removing of struts inside the case. (The buttons Wermy has used are from a NES controller, and he says they’re very similar in look and feel to what you’ll find on the original Game Boy.) There are also a couple of shoulder triggers.
It has two extra buttons, so you can play SNES, NES, and later Game Boy model games on there. People with sharp eyes will have noticed that the Game Boy Zero has one big cosmetic difference (aside from that display) from the original Game Boy. (Wermy’s running RetroPie on the Game Boy Zero.) What you’re seeing here is a customised Game Boy cartridge which has been re-soldered and gently Dremeled to house a micro SD adapter, which will accept any micro SD you pop in there, and enable the Pi Zero inside the Game Boy itself to read from it. First up, there’s this glorious cartridge hack: But this one’s got a couple of special features. Pi Zero in a controller or hand-held device isn’t new: we’ve seen it before. This rather beautiful mod from Wermy (leave your real name in the comments if you’d like us to use it, Wermy!) has a few details that really make it stand out. We see a lot of Pi Zero retro gaming mods, but I think this one might just take the biscuit.
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