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A project log for DSpi: Rasberry Pi 5 Clamshell Handheld

Handheld gaming system in the DS form factor using the RasPi Compute Module 5

william-opreyWilliam Oprey 07/07/2025 at 04:410 Comments

Hey guys, sorry for disappearing for a bit, uni has been literally trying to kill me with workload. Its finally winter break now, so we're back. Motherboards have arrived, and mostly function, meaning I now have a semi functional handheld sitting in front of me.

Hey look, it's half a ds

Issues include, but are not limited to: Broken 2nd screen connector, Incorrect MCU making BMIC configuration difficult, Broken headphone jack, The thing being fat as f***, so yeah lots to work on.

Apart from that everything seems to work fine, and I got retro pie running pretty easily. Ironically, in its current form ds games suck, since each screen gets a whopping 2 inches of size, but that's an issue for another revision.

Also Linux sucks and I resent it's very existence

Yeah this isn't great

I've finally decided that I will open source this project, so expect a GitHub up in the next week or so

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