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Portable PI questions. USB Gamepad adapter, Case and RPI RetroPie distribution.

lramirev
lramirev over 11 years ago

Hi Ben, first of all. I'll like to tell you, I like a lot your show. I've sean several of your videos,

 

  I'll like to follow your instructions to build my one portable Raspberry PI. (Build Your Own Portable Raspberry Pi (Part 1) - YouTube). Yet I have sent you a pair of questions on your youtube channel, I'll like to repeat here.

1. I didn't get it what device you used to interface the game pad to the Pi. I have being looking arround. Do you thing this one may work? http://www.polycase.com/zn-45

2. What are the dimesions of the case. Just wanted to know if this case may be a enough size of the project? http://youtu.be/ZAcXrhaX4wA

3. Also I'll like to user RetroPie build for Raspberry PI (http://blog.petrockblock.com/retropie/), Do you think the architecture you build would work with this distribution? I would appreciate a lot if you could use your Portable PI to try it and see if it works on it.


I'm sending you my best regards.

Luis Ramirez

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    0 colecago over 11 years ago

    Ben used a teensy board programmed as a USB HID device to connect the buttons/joysticks to the Pi

    http://www.pjrc.com/teensy/td_joystick.html

     

    Ben has uploaded the files for his case online

    http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:110354

     

    I don't see why not, the teensy just shows up as a gamepad so if you can get retropi to work, then you should be able to just adjust your button configuration to match whatever you programmed on the teensy.

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    0 lramirev over 11 years ago

    Thank you for the response. I have downloaded the file and noted  the link.

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