So I am planning to make a portable Game Boy type of device. This will be the first thing I have built outside of Desktop computers, and I have never done much with programming or wiring of electronics. So I have a few questions for some of you more-professional-than-me tinkerers.
I currently have a R-Pi Zero that I would like to use as its small enough to fit easily in the case that I am wanting to use (pic included). My issue is the Screen. I would like to use the screen that came in the original handheld device (pic included) but the lack of a Display interface (DSI) hook up on the Zero forces me to have to look for another screen. Unless I can use the existing board, but the existing board is a handheld SoC and I am not sure how to go about that.
So my questions:
1) Worth looking for another screen that's about the same size? 66mm of screen diag (space in the case allotted for the screen (73mm diag, 60mm width, 43mm height, 2.5mm depth)) And will easily hook up to the GPIO on the Zero.
I have seen a few screens that are about the same size online, however the total thickness of the screens plus the boards they are on is a bit off putting. I might could possibly swing moving stuff around to fit it but I'm not totally sure how it would work.
2) Should I get the R-Pi 3 which has the hook up already(DSI)? The Pi 3 will just barely fit, I believe (I do not have one so I cannot test fit it with a battery pack), into the case if I remove the USB stacks and the Ethernet and Audio ports and anything else that will not be used.
NOTE: I would like to be able to use the GPU for processing the video, as I have read that using the analog video output uses the CPU for video processing instead. Being that it is such a low power CPU id like to get as much out of the SoC as possible (if using the Zero).
