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(^160) The Official Raspberry Pi Projects Book raspberrypi.org/magpi
Feature THE BIG BUILD
Follow along and build your retro handheld
BUILD THE SYSTEM
STEP-01
PREPARE THE
GAMEPAD BOARD
Our first job is to solder the header pins onto the
Gamepad board. You can keep it all in place with a
little Blu Tack before soldering it on. Make sure you’re
soldering the header onto the correct side of the board.
STEP-02
ADD THE
BUTTONS
Now it’s time to carefully solder
the ten 6 mm microswitches
to the front of the board.
Some helping hands would
be good here.
STEP-03
TURN ON
THE BACKLIGHT
By default, the PiTFT doesn’t have its backlight
turned on. You need to take a craft knife and cut the
circuit between the blocks in the #18 box that you
can see circled in the picture.