The Adafruit PiGRRL 2.0 Custom Gamepad PCB powers up your PiGRRL build by removing the need for point to point wiring for the buttons and switches. The board needs a 40-pin header cable to connect all the GPIO signals, 2 x wires for the power and 4 x wires for the left and right shoulder buttons. That's all the wiring you need to connect 12 x switches! As you'll see from the tutorial there's still quite a bit to do, but the Gamepad PCB takes away a lot of tedious soldering.
New to the PiGRRL? The Raspberry Pi is a tiny Linux computer which can run a number of emulators of classic game systems such as the 8-bit NES and MAME. These have proved so popular that there's a complete distribution aimed at retro gaming, and that's the RetroPie project. If you can think of an 8-bit game, the chances are that it will run on the Raspberry Pi. The PiGRRL project brings these great old games, with their blocky graphics and plinky 8-bit 'music' into a small, hand-held, battery powered, full colour console. Retro games are always a big hit with kids and adults so bring some more retro into your life and build a PiGRRL.
Supplied as a bare PCB, you will need to source the rest of the components required to build a working PiGRRL. Adafruit supply a free and very detailed tutorial to guide you through the whole process of building your very own hand-held retro gaming console.
Mounts 10 x tact switches
Get a head start on your PiGRRL game console build
Dimensions 85 x 48 x 1.6mm (3.35 x 1.9 x 0.06in.)
Adafruit part no.: 3015
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