Introducing the Minty Pi Pico

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Update: A circuit board to make this easier to build has been created! Unboxing video for that board is here • MintyPiPico circuit board unboxing • And the boards are now working!: • • MintyPiPico boards work! • Transcript: • This is the Minty Pi Pico. It was inspired by building a mintyPi, and uses many of the same ideas. It's really just a PicoPad repackaged into an Altoids Smalls tin. I'm using the stock PicoPad firmware, which means it can play video games and even 10 frames per second video. So, for example, my favorite (PacMac). • It uses an RP2040-Zero board, a USB charger board with a 5-volt output, (a battery), a microSD card board, a custom push-pull SMD audio board, an SMD push-on and off circuit for the power button. And it uses, like some of the versions of the MintyPi, it uses Nintendo DS Lite buttons and the dome switch tactile switches. And I used a speaker out of an old cell phone because a regular Gameboy speaker it's just too big to fit in here. And a 2 inch ST7789 LCD display from Buy Display (and a battery, of course). There's lots of 30 gauge wire wrap wire to connect it all. And that I solder, I hand solder everything. And I had to modify the tin to get everything to fit. I suppose someday I'll make a PC board to get it to fit into an unmodified tin. And I 3D printed all of the case components myself. • So, here's all the connectors and such. On the back, we've got the RP2040 reset and boot button and so that you can press the boot button (I accidentally said reset button) and plug in a USB-C here to program it. There's the speaker on the left and the charge port on the right. There's the micro SD card port there. • I'll show you how to make, how to play the videos on this. So you plug in the SD card in the slot there, micro SD card, power it up, and then you navigate down to the VIDEOS folder, press A, go to the videos, press A, and now it's erasing and loading everything in there. So you just go ahead and press play the video you want to play. And video quality is actually pretty good at 10 frames per second. • The procedure is kind of long to convert them. I haven't done one yet of my own videos, but these are the four that are included in the firmware. If you didn't know it was 10 frames per second you might not recognize it right away. Well, that's how you play the videos. • OK now, to get back to the video game menu, since you replaced the video games with videos, we have to go down to the GAME menu, press A, select that, and then go down to MULTISET, which has all the games. You can load some individually if you want, and it'll erase that and load in. It'll take a while to load in all of the games, the 16 games that are on the original menu. And once that's done you can just turn it off, pull out the SD card, turn it back on and you'll get the original menu which we'll see in a second here. • Sped up: (It takes a while to load. If you're only ever going to play like Pac-Man you can load just Pac-Man and then this goes quicker. But the load time when you first power up isn't bad, so...) • Okay, and there you are. You're back to that menu. And next time you turn it on, it'll come up with that menu. • Thanks for watching. • List of components used: • RP2040-Zero: https://www.ebay.ca/itm/315620908621 • USB-C charger board: https://www.ebay.ca/itm/296675724340 • Battery: https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B0CP233Y25 • Micro SD card reader: https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B07XF4RJSL • Nintendo DS Lite buttons: https://www.ebay.ca/itm/114716515761 • Nintendo DS Lite clear rubber pads: https://www.ebay.ca/itm/176607551810 • Tactile dome switches: https://www.digikey.ca/en/products/detail/... • IPS 2 LCD display 240x320 ST7789: https://www.ebay.ca/itm/304837403975 • 12-conductor FPC cable for LCD: https://www.digikey.ca/en/products/detail/... • M2x4mm self-tapping screws: https://www.ebay.ca/itm/404606790825?var=6... • I used Creality Ender PLA Filament 1.75mm on a Flashforge Finder 3D printer • I can make STL files available to anyone interested. • PicoPad website: https://picopad.eu/en/ • #picopad #RP2040 #mintypi #videogames

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