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raspberrypi.org/magpi The Official Raspberry Pi Projects Book 157
Microswitches
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The beauty of proper retro gaming is tactile
controls. You’ll need ten 6mm switches,
and a couple of 12 mm buttons.Slide switch
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This switch allows you to turn the power
on and off. It’s best to do the software
shutdown of RetroPie first before
switching the power off, though.BUILD A HANDHELD GAMES CONSOLE Feature
PowerBoost
1000C
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This is one of the cool bits: we’re going
to use this PowerBoost to actually
charge a battery within the handheld.
With the low power draw of the Pi and
advancements in modern battery tech,
you’ll get a lot out of one charge.PiGRRL 2
controller
board
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This Custom Gamepad PCB is
designed to fit the case perfectly.
We did try to see if a standard USB
SNES or NES PCB would fit inside,
but they were far too big.2000 mAH
battery
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We squeezed the biggest battery into
here that we possibly could. This way,
it should last for hours and hours.GPIO hammer
headers
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A wonderful innovation from Pimoroni,
these GPIO headers require zero
soldering and can be (carefully)
hammered onto the empty
pins of a Pi Zero.SCREWS
A selection of
screws to attach
the parts to the
case. This includes
14× #4-40 and
6× #2-56 3/8
machine screws.Bluetooth audio (optional)
There’s no dedicated Audio Out on the Pi Zero W, but it does
have Bluetooth. RetroPie doesn’t support Bluetooth audio yet,
but there are workarounds: see magpi.cc/IyxKkA.