{"id":19141,"date":"2018-08-30T14:20:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-30T13:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=19141"},"modified":"2018-08-30T14:20:00","modified_gmt":"2018-08-30T13:20:00","slug":"review-of-the-new-pimoroni-picade-for-the-raspberry-pi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=19141","title":{"rendered":"Review of the new Pimoroni Picade for the Raspberry Pi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/picade.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-19142\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/picade.jpg?resize=560%2C746&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"746\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/picade.jpg?w=619&amp;ssl=1 619w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/picade.jpg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/picade.jpg?resize=560%2C746&amp;ssl=1 560w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/picade.jpg?resize=260%2C347&amp;ssl=1 260w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/picade.jpg?resize=160%2C213&amp;ssl=1 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/biglesp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Les Pounder<\/a> has published a review of the new <a href=\"https:\/\/shop.pimoroni.com\/products\/picade\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pimoroni Picade<\/a>\u00a0retro gaming machine over at\u00a0electromaker.io. It&#8217;s a comprehensive build-and-function review which looks at both good points and bad points of the kit. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.electromaker.io\/blog\/article\/pimoroni-picade-build-hack-and-review\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the review here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Les Pounder has published a review of the new Pimoroni Picade\u00a0retro gaming machine over at\u00a0electromaker.io. It&#8217;s a comprehensive build-and-function review which looks at both good points and bad points of the kit. Read the review here.<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=19141\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19142,"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":[21,63,44],"tags":[306,821,151],"class_list":["post-19141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-games","category-retro","category-reviews","tag-les-pounder","tag-picade","tag-pimoroni"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Review of the new Pimoroni Picade for the Raspberry Pi - 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=19141\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Review of the new Pimoroni Picade for the Raspberry Pi - Raspberry Pi Pod\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Les Pounder has published a review of the new Pimoroni Picade\u00a0retro gaming machine over at\u00a0electromaker.io. 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