Ben Heck’s Raspberry Pi Zero Portable Episode -- Episode 244

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In this episode Ben uses the Raspberry Pi Zero to create the smallest Pi portable computer that he has ever made!

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Former Member over 9 years ago in reply to makerkaren

Be sure to use the raspberry pi zero with camera attachment for some image recognition. Maybe you/Max could combine it with the upcoming pokemon go and have it be able to recognise major colors defining the pokemon on a cell phone screen, and have it function almost like it did in the anime.
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makerkaren over 9 years ago

I'm working on getting all the files posted and linking the github to the peisode, but here is what we have for now.
https://github.com/thebenheckshow/244-tbhs-raspberry-pi-zero-portable
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makerkaren over 9 years ago in reply to Former Member

Max just got really excited at the idea of creating a Pokedex.
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ravelox over 9 years ago in reply to Former Member

I'm taking a guess here....

https://learn.adafruit.com/introducing-the-raspberry-pi-zero/video-outputs gives a good description of what's available on the zero. If you stop the TBHS video at around 6:43, you can see wires from the headerless TV output so I'm assuming the connection is going to the analog input on the LCD controller board.
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Former Member over 9 years ago

That is a very nice build!
Any chance you can share how the wiring is done betwteen the RPi Zero and the LCD driver board?

Thanks,

Alex.
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Former Member over 9 years ago

I haven't been able to acquire a raspberry pi zero yet, but if I did I would want to explore the possibilities to put it in the original tiger electronics pokedex and reuse the keyboard already integrated there.

It might be doable considering this episode though?
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Blacksheep32 over 9 years ago

<3 SCUMMVM <3 Nice build! I really liked the keyboard matrix.
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ravelox over 9 years ago

Is there any chance you can post Felix's code for the keyboard matrix?

Thanks

Dave
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