PICO8 Real Console

A little computer with Raspberry Pi 3 and the amazing PICO8, a fantasy console. Now it's real in your hands.

Victor Barahona

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Description

I love the PICO8 concept and wish to make a little computer based in Raspberry PI 3 with this software installed. I met PICO8 some years ago and this project has been waiting since then. Finally here it is. In 2020 made other minicomputer but had some failures and finally stopped that project. Now I create this one from zero. I've been inspired by projects like YARH.IO Micro 2 or Decktility but have some important differences inside.

Files

Esquema_Fritzing_imagen.jpg A diagram to show how are connected the different parts. JPEG Image - 675.63 kB - 11/06/2023 at 11:47		Preview

BOM.xls ms-excel - 6.50 kB - 11/06/2023 at 11:46		Download
Cyberdeck_oct23_V2_base.stl Bottom cover Standard Tesselated Geometry - 358.77 kB - 11/06/2023 at 11:46		Download
Cyberdeck_oct23_V2_Tapa.stl Top cover Standard Tesselated Geometry - 298.32 kB - 11/06/2023 at 11:46		Download
Bisel pantalla.stl Bezel to cover the border of the screen. Also has a point to hold the stick (the screen is resistive and needs a stick to operate). Standard Tesselated Geometry - 72.25 kB - 11/06/2023 at 11:46		Download

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Components

1 × Raspberry Pi 3
1 × Li Ion battery 3300mAh
1 × TP4056 (to charge battery with USB)
1 × switch (to turn on the device)
1 × MT3608 (dcdc step-up from 3.7 to 5V) Capacitors / Tantalum Electrolytic

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Build Instructions

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All the pieces are ready ?
2

Solder battery, TP4056 and switch.

Hold them with glue.
3

Solder dcdc step-up and Raspberry Pi

Connect to pins 5V and GND in GPIO). Hold the connections with some glue. Adjust the dcdc Vout to 5V BEFORE TO CONNECT THE RASPI.