A Custom Milled Wood/Brass/Aluminum PiZero Handheld

BuZz

@edmaul69 agreed - video was awesome. Amazing skills (and some pieces of hardware/tooling that I wish I owned!!) :-)

edmaul69

@BuZz me too. As a guy who has spent his life building and modifying electronics i would love to have the equipment he does.

Lyle_JP

Amazing. My only question would be "How heavy is it?" But it's astonishing to look at.

edmaul69

@Lyle_JP he wanted it to be authentic old school. He was replicating an atari heavy sixer. ;)

Capeman

This would make an epic kit, i would imagine mass producing the acrylic face, control PCB's and injection molding the framework on the inside would be easy enough to accomplish. The outside wood casing and the milled buttons would be a bit more difficult to mass produce...

Maybe modifying the front face to fit the standard gameboy buttons, and using easily found replacements such as these http://store.kitsch-bent.com/product/custom-buttons would be an easier route for the buttons (feel might be a bit more authentic too).

As for the wood, i would be fine with plastic or a fake wood, but that's just me.
Regardless if this were a kit, i'd buy one in 0.002 seconds. TAKE MY MONEY NOW, haha.

fabio78

My God, what a formidable skill set on display here, including an incredible good taste. I'm awed by the video, just a little sad you didn't show it in action :)

DIY.Engineering

Limited Kits and Fully Assembled Versions just launched!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/diyengineering/the-ultimate-retropie-handheld

BuZz

@DIY.Engineering Fantastic!

argh!

TAKE MY MONEY!!.

Gone for fully assembled - My software skills are a lot better than my hardware ones.

How accessible is the sdcard for a fully assembled device ? Just take off front screws ? I guess it would be handy to have the sdcard accessible somehow - for example via an extension cable.

Note that the RetroPie premade image isn't allowed to be included due to licensing restrictions of some of the emulators. I recommend if the sdcard slot is not easily accessible, to do an image of RetroPie but remove all the emulators. They can be added back manually via retropie-setup by the user one they have their unit (although this would require a network connection via the usb slot or wifi if using pi zero w)

Gosenbach

Wow! that is some amazing work!

obsidianspider

Holy crap! Just. Just wow. I now feel like a total hack after seeing this.

BuZz

Kickstarter is cancelled - https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/diyengineering/the-ultimate-retropie-handheld/posts/1823554

@DIY-Engineering Please can you get back to me regarding RetroPie (see my comments above). I commented on the kickstarter too a few days ago (as a backer), and got no reply.

HurricaneFan

@BuZz That sucks that it was cancelled!

AlexMurphy

@HurricaneFan He was never going to raise the money he needed from Kickstarter. It's a really cool enclosure but incredibly high-end and dare I say it... over-engineered. It's a classy object but you have many better options if you are willing to drop that amount on a Pi Zero in a fancy case.

DIY.Engineering

@BuZz just read this in its entirety, I apologize for the licensing violation. I will provide instructions rather than an image with the kits. sorry about that!

BuZz

@DIY.Engineering Thanks for getting back to me - I will reply to your email over the weekend. Appreciate it wasn't intentional - love your work. Cheers.