Game Boy Zero

Overview

During the summer of 2018 I decided I wanted a portable retro-games console for my last family holiday (the flight was long). I went searching for ideas for projects fitting this description online and stumbled across the Game Boy Zero project from sudomod and decided to have a go at making my own.

The Game Boy Zero I was building conisisted of a Raspberry Pi Zero, screen, Teensy (for controls) and a custom board for the buttons (not made by me).

It was at this point that I added the battery and charging circuit (as you can see in the photo) doing so allowed the console to run without being plugged in. Unfortunately the charging functionality of the circuit wasn't working and while attempting to debug this issue the charging circuit blew the raspberry pi (at the very least).

I hope to pick this project back up when I have both the time and the equipment, any progress will be documented here.