Hi folks

Im new to Pico-8, but have been playing with the raspberry pi for a while.

My latest project has a pi zero, screen, battery, and some basic controls all smushed together as small as possible. I spent an hour the other day playing with pico-8 on it, and i can say, im hooked!!

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Hello! What a nice device :) . I can't say from the photo but is the left button controller also a joy-trigger? If so it can be impossible to play some games where you need to press 2 buttons simultaneously

thanks :) both control buttons are little 5 way joysticks (up,down,left,right, and center click)

got the left one for the 'directions', and the right one for 'actions'. you can press 2 things at once, but only if they are next to each other (like up and left for example)

Nice. I've got several Pi's for various tasks and recently got a "Pi Zero W" for the sole purpose of making a portable PICO-8 device... some day! :o)

I just wish the PiBoy Zero kits weren't so damn expensive, as that's pretty much what I'm aiming for (small enough to fit in pocket!)

Good luck with your project! ;o)

Well the sum of all the parts to make this is only about $30 I did try and price up things in volume and that does lower the costs a bit. The screen is the hardest thing to source really

Would love to be able to make it into a small kit! Gaming pi keyring

can you list the components please

They are all listed on the project page over on hackaday along with instructions to get the screen working, and a link to get the board made

Will be adding some instructions for the buttons later

https://hackaday.io/project/20152-gameboy-zero-but-smaller

Do you get good sound?
I get super fast sound on Gameboy Zero :(

What about the keys?
What did you do to make those work?

Thanks :)

I did play with piezo transducers

https://hackaday.io/project/20152-gameboy-zero-but-smaller/log/54847-piezo-and-pico-8

They work, but it's a little quiet. Needs an amp and a noise filter

The buttons are like little joysticks, not ideal for action buttons, but it's workable. They connect straight to gpio and use adafruit retrogame to pretend to be keyboard presses