It’s a good time to be a fan of classic video games. Most of us carry around a smartphone that’s more than capable of emulating pretty much everything from the 32-bit era on down, and if you want something a little more official, the big players like Sony and Nintendo have started putting out “retro” […]
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Calgary gamers Andrew Smith and Curtis Braham have a lot more going for them than hitting up high scores. The pair wanted to do something that would attract more donations for a charitable cause and given their particular field of interest, whilst knowing what it is that makes their own minds to wander all the
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Using a Raspberry Pi Zero mini PC together with a few 3D printed casing components earlier this year Thingiverse member “Nochii” revealed his Mini SNES Pi Zero Nano pocket gaming console. Equipped with a 800 mAh battery and using a 1.54 inch LCD HAT for a display, mini speaker, amplifier and charging module most of which was
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Home games consoles have occupied a special space in the marketplace over the last 3 decades. The crowning jewels of their respective companies, they inspired legions of diehard fans and bitter enmities against followers of alternative hardware. For some, a mere handheld is a watered down experience that simply won’t do. Nay, the console itself
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Sure, you can play a bunch of retro games on a Raspberry Pi, but if you’re really hardcore, you build your own retro console and write your own games for it. [Nicola Wrachien]’s entry into this year’s Hackaday prize is his DIY Cortex M0+ game console and the platform game he wrote to test the hardware. The
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[MisterM] seems to specialize in squeezing new electronics into old but good-looking technology. His latest creation focuses on a space-age specimen: an interesting car radio from 1963 that could be pulled out from the dashboard and taken along wherever. The beat goes on, thanks to a shiny built-in speaker on the bottom. He replaced the non-working radio
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A cool Raspberry Pi games console has been created using a retro 1936 car radio providing a unique styling to the self-contained games emulator powered by the awesome Raspberry Pi 3 model B mini PC. The project has been built by Hackster.io member Martin Mander provides full instructions on how you can build your own
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Much like astronauts and pilots, doctors, it turns out, are increasingly running simulations in virtual worlds to sharpen their skills. Using a host of video game technologies, some of which employ the latest VR headsets and others that run on standard screens, surgeons and first-responders are able to practice all sorts of procedures without harming real patients. Now some
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A new handheld console is looking for backing on Kickstarter and it’s an impressive piece of hardware. Check out Lyra from Creoqode, the gaming device that’s also a personal computer. Since the invention and release of the Nintendo Switch, gaming on-the-go has become the goal for most gaming hardware producers. Joining the ranks of on-the-go hardware is a new system from
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A company by the name of Creoqode is looking to allow you to take all of your favorite classic games on the go with a new handheld gaming unit called Lyra. It looks like some of your classic handheld solutions like GameGear or Gameboy Advance, only they promise that it can play virtually any classic
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