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And also this is my idea for a case i am planning on building which will have enough air flow in the whole thing which the only thing i didn't do it make small holes on the top but i don't think you would notice it in this demo video

Lastly the front will have 2 USB 3.0 ports and the back will have 2 USB 2.0 ports and i am making it out of acrylic and vinyl wrap.

@Clyde

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I just made one too :) its pretty darn sweet!!!

For our http://gamepieadvance.com/ project, we are trying to get to a build that would require NO soldering. We have a plan for that, but it's not yet proven.

In the meantime, our current DIY kit requires fairly minimal soldering. You need to solder a header onto your Pi Zero, and you can choose to solder a wire depending on how you want to hook up batteries.

Most of the project is hacking on plastic with an Xacto Knife.

Nice build

I've done this too (no pictures yet, sorry).

I used a Mausberry use-your-own switch and followed this: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/4011/mausberry-shutdown-circuit-nes-build-help

That enabled me to use the original NES power and reset switch, and the LED. Was pretty easy. Really the only hard part was desoldering the LED to flip it around.

It’s been quite a few weeks from my last update. Life and work got on the way of this project but I’m back on it, I also received some of the parts that I was waiting so I could start doing the power section of this project.

I have been thinking from a few month ago about a way to see the battery status. The cool thing is that the 3ds replacement case came with the light diffuser which fit at the front of the case.

So with this in mind I did a bit of research on the powerboost 1000C board to find a way to do a break board with some LED sitting under the diffuser.

What I’m thinking to use from the board is the Red LED for lower battery, the yellow LED for the charging state and the green LED for the charged state.

On the powerboost board the green and yellow LED share the V line and therefore can but wired to a RGB LED or a Bi-Color LED which has a common anode. I also test the voltage from the onboard LED and they run on 1.94v.

After doing some research I stumble onto this Bi-colour LED which match the colour I wanted to display, green and orange and also run between 1.9v to 3.8v which sounded perfect.
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Common-anode-Orange-Green-3mm-bi-color-leds-Round-indicator-light-diode-2-0-2/1712202772.html?spm=2114.13010608.0.0.I96eme

So fast forward, I finally got those LEDs and it was play time during the weekend
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I wired the cable directly on top of the on board LED solder pad with the help of some flux
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And with the help of a breadboard I could test the LED
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And lastly I solder the wired for the red LED which I will test in the future
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On the case side I'm doing the few different ports, I will be posting this in my next update.

@Squiggee
I think this would be a great idea for a RPi case!

Here are the other wooden projects that I've seen on here!

@JWAM make a cool wooden NES RPi case:
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3744/my-pallet-nes

and @jackieqi make a unique wood kitchen butter board FC(NES) gaming console that hang on the wall:
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/4264/wood-kitchen-butter-board-fc-nes-gaming-console

Then again, people make portables inside an Altoids tin, so a Zero in a MegaDrive or Atari cartridge should work, it just depends on your goals for the build.

Nicely done! :)

I am in search of an answer to this exact question. Anyone have any updates? Are there any cases that will hold the RasbberryPi3 and a ControlBlock attached?