Can I connect a pcb card edge connector to a raspberry pi?

I am looking to make a Gameboy type device and would like to add a cartridge function to it so I was wondering if I could use a pcb card edge connector for this?

If not is there anything else I could use?

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0 gadget.iom over 10 years ago

Can you be little more specific?
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0 Former Member over 10 years ago in reply to gadget.iom

What do you mean by more specific?
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0 gadget.iom over 10 years ago in reply to Former Member

Well, is the raspberry pi the host (console)? and if so, what is the cartridge likely to contain?
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0 Former Member over 10 years ago in reply to gadget.iom

yes the raspberry pi would be the host, I was thinking the cartridge could contain a retro game or something like mame
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0 gadget.iom over 10 years ago in reply to Former Member

Well if that's what you're aiming to achieve, you might want to read this article
http://www.cnet.com/au/how-to/create-a-retro-game-console-with-the-raspberry-pi/

They use USB sticks to transfer the ROMs, though you could experiment with taking the pins from a USB stick to the pins of a card edge connector, or even putting some EEPROM onto a board with an edge connector. The card edge receptacles are commonly available. e.g.. http://uk.farnell.com/te-connectivity-amp/5-5530843-0/connector-card-edge-rcpt-20pos/dp/2396188
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0 gadget.iom over 10 years ago in reply to Former Member

Well if that's what you're aiming to achieve, you might want to read this article
http://www.cnet.com/au/how-to/create-a-retro-game-console-with-the-raspberry-pi/

They use USB sticks to transfer the ROMs, though you could experiment with taking the pins from a USB stick to the pins of a card edge connector, or even putting some EEPROM onto a board with an edge connector. The card edge receptacles are commonly available. e.g.. http://uk.farnell.com/te-connectivity-amp/5-5530843-0/connector-card-edge-rcpt-20pos/dp/2396188
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0 Former Member over 10 years ago in reply to gadget.iom

Thanks
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0 Problemchild over 10 years ago in reply to gadget.iom

It's interesting as an Idea but a bit useless unless you specifically need to use an old style cart for some reason.
Otherwise you would get a much simpler and reliable connector using the USB and say a memory stick and have 1000's of games on it for a few bucks
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0 gadget.iom over 10 years ago in reply to Problemchild

I would've thought the same, but the question related to card-edge connectors so I thought I'd personalise my answer around this approach.
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