{"id":17990,"date":"2018-01-01T12:17:20","date_gmt":"2018-01-01T11:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=17990"},"modified":"2018-01-01T12:17:20","modified_gmt":"2018-01-01T11:17:20","slug":"bare-bones-portable-retropie-gaming-console-with-a-raspberry-pi-zero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=17990","title":{"rendered":"Bare bones portable RetroPie gaming console with a Raspberry Pi Zero"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/zeroboy.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-17991\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/zeroboy.jpg?resize=560%2C420&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/zeroboy.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/zeroboy.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/zeroboy.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/zeroboy.jpg?resize=560%2C420&amp;ssl=1 560w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/zeroboy.jpg?resize=260%2C195&amp;ssl=1 260w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/zeroboy.jpg?resize=160%2C120&amp;ssl=1 160w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/zeroboy.jpg?w=1120&amp;ssl=1 1120w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/zeroboy.jpg?w=1680&amp;ssl=1 1680w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Happy New Year everybody!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The owner of <a href=\"https:\/\/facelesstech.wordpress.com\/2017\/12\/31\/zeroboy-a-poor-mans-retropie-portable\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FacelessTech<\/a> wanted a small retro gaming console so he turned to the Raspberry Pi Zero. He designed a custom circuit board to house the control buttons, taking inspiration from <a href=\"http:\/\/wonkyresistor.com\/scorezero\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wonky Resistor&#8217;s ScoreZero<\/a>. He even managed to add some shoulder buttons to give himself more options in the consoles he could emulate. The Zero is mounted to the bottom of the 3.2&#8243; screen and custom PCB and has RetroPie installed on it&#8217;s SD card. You can <a href=\"https:\/\/facelesstech.wordpress.com\/2017\/12\/31\/zeroboy-a-poor-mans-retropie-portable\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">read more about the build here<\/a>\u00a0and see a video of it below:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"ZeroBoy Retropie raspberry zero handheld\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kEpxIP5WVKY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy New Year everybody! The owner of FacelessTech wanted a small retro gaming console so he turned to the Raspberry Pi Zero. He designed a custom circuit board to house the control buttons, taking inspiration from Wonky Resistor&#8217;s ScoreZero. He&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=17990\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17991,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[54,18,21,20,50,63],"tags":[586,375],"class_list":["post-17990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-accessories","category-emulation","category-games","category-gpio-boards","category-making","category-retro","tag-custom-pcb","tag-retropie"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Bare bones portable RetroPie gaming console with a Raspberry Pi Zero - Raspberry Pi Pod<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=17990\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Bare bones portable RetroPie gaming console with a Raspberry Pi Zero - Raspberry Pi Pod\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Happy New Year everybody! 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