Rasberry pi 2, what do you do with yours?

Myrddin

Given the vertical viewing angles on lcd's, would you not have to bit sitting right over that and looking directly down onto it for it to look right?

CiDeRmAn

Myrddin wrote: »

Given the vertical viewing angles on lcd's, would you not have to bit sitting right over that and looking directly down onto it for it to look right?

The viewing angle on mine, when I made an Ikea cab, was difficult at times.
As said, it's down to the way that an LCD works, more specifically in my case, a laptop whose LCD was to be seen from a particular set of angles only.
A more modern LCD with a wider field of view may work better but, as Myrddin says, these were never supposed to be viewed along the vertical and so it may simply not be a satisfying thing to use.
Better to make it in a horizontal format and live with the black bars either side for vertical games, or just get a bigger screen.

ronanc1000

Myrddin wrote: »

Given the vertical viewing angles on lcd's, would you not have to bit sitting right over that and looking directly down onto it for it to look right?

Yep, that's what's shown in the photos anyway in the first attached pic.


Another build they had was the longer version of the 'lack" table where they built a two player control panel and built in the Pi, then it was just a cast of plunging into your tv and playing. Here's the photo of that one. But I do like to idea of sticking a LCD into the table itself.

Myrddin

ronanc1000 wrote: »

But I do like to idea of sticking a LCD into the table itself.

Even on my bartop (using a 19" lcd) I can notice the screen being dum/dark if you sit too low in front of it - the table above would have a much more drastic angle than that, & I doubt it'd be comfortable to use for any length of time. I think for cocktail/table cabs, crt's are the only way to go. Maybe you could sink the back of a crt low enough (19" monitor maybe?) to leave the screen flush with the top?

o1s1n

Rather oddly, I found the viewing angle with the little Ikea cocktail/LCD combo I had was awful for hori, but vertical it worked perfectly and looked absolutely great.

Star Lord

As someone with issues with my back and neck, those horizontally mounted screens would be the death of me.
Nice idea though! The two-player, plug-into-the-telly one would be a much better job.

o1s1n wrote: »

Rather oddly, I found the viewing angle with the little Ikea cocktail/LCD combo I had was awful for hori, but vertical it worked perfectly and looked absolutely great.

They're designed to have good viewing angles from the sides, rather than above or below, hence working well when using it 'tated!

Has anyone tried Rpi to jamma yet?

CiDeRmAn

BrownFinger wrote: »

Has anyone tried Rpi to jamma yet?

My brother built an adapter, from a Chinese made interface to the jamma pins and it seems to have worked pretty well.
My video goes from the RP hdmi out through a hdmi-vga adapter and on into my AWSD cab monitor's VGA port.
All I had to do was alter the initial cfg so it outputted at the right frequency and resolution.

CiDeRmAn

I'm thinking I've enough emulation in my life and I'm going to forgo the RP0 into Tankstick project and I'm going to turn the Tankstick into a Saturn arcade stick instead, it's something I don't yet own and should be easy to do.
If I come across a local 14" Sony portable I'll pop the Pi0 into that and make a little portacab out of it.

The Last Bandit

Pi0 is a bit slow on boot up, if you've got the space available then use at least a Pi2.

CiDeRmAn

The Last Bandit wrote: »

Pi0 is a bit slow on boot up, if you've got the space available then use at least a Pi2.

Yeah, I don't need a total solution, I've got the RP2 heart beating away in the AWSD at the moment.
The RP0 is just to run the classics, a stand in for the likes of a 60in1 cart, at least that's my thoughts.
I'll get a 3rd party Saturn pad and butcher it for its innards and splice them into the Tankstick, instant Saturn arcade stick and I can get the most out of my very arcade leaning Saturn collection.

eddhorse

Hyperspin like menu called Attract Mode:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VG0P7S3U3lE

Mame variants and managing roms here:
https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/Managing-ROMs

Prebuilt image here :
http://smartretro.co.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=8277

The Last Bandit

Got a dead Retron 5 a while ago but couldn't fix it (apparently these things are incredibly unreliable anyway).

So decided to convert it to a Retron Pi, basically it was an emulation box to start with so seemed fitting. I wanted to integrate the Pi as much as possible so took a while to get everything sorted out.

So all the external controller ports are working.
Power switch starts up and shuts down the Pi properly.
Front panel LEDs light up depending on what emulator is launched.

Only external mod was to add a USB port, had planned and bought a micro SD to SD card extension but decided not to bother as keeping the SD card internally is probably a bit safer and less chance of losing it.

Have kept the number of emulators low on it (NES/SNES/Megadrive/Master System/32X/PC-Engine) in keeping with the original design. Only got the top 100 games or so for each emulator as well.

Still tweaking the software a bit, getting all the metadata and scalers sorted but the hardware side is finished

Yep the USB port is upside down.



PI in the center, 2 microcontrollers near the controller ports convert the controller inputs to USB. Microcontroller top right handles the power and the PI controller the front panel LEDs directly using gpio calls.



Kept the cartridge slots intact, adds a nice bit of weight to the console.



Not investigated the Retron 5 controller to much yet, apparently it used a propriety protocol and suffered from poor latency so need to think on an alternative if I'm to ever use it.

eddhorse

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CiDeRmAn

You forgot

Kudos (Dreamcast Game), what you get for sliding around London, at night, in the rain, in a car... sideways (MSR FTW!)

Corholio

Superb to see you got some use out of it. Great work

The Last Bandit

Corholio wrote: »

Superb to see you got some use out of it. Great work

Getting great use out of it, actually a nice playable console now

KeRbDoG

eddhorse wrote: »

Hyperspin like menu called Attract Mode:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VG0P7S3U3lE

Mame variants and managing roms here:
https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/Managing-ROMs

Prebuilt image here :
http://smartretro.co.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=8277

I wonder if the artwork from the BerryCade image that was posted here would also work in this?

I see over on ukvac the new revision of the jamma pi is up for sale.
have a video amp this time

160e delivered including a pi3

tickle me interested

The Last Bandit

Cool nice project and not a bad price. Maybe it'll trigger Pandora's etc to up their game a bit.

Kinda sucks though if you already bought the previous one given the requirement for a video amp should have been pretty obvious from the start.

Steve X2

BrownFinger wrote: »

I see over on ukvac the new revision of the jamma pi is up for sale.
have a video amp this time

160e delivered including a pi3

tickle me interested

Got a link?

CiDeRmAn

Steve X2 wrote: »

Got a link?

I think this is it

http://www.ukvac.com/forum/new-multiboard-raspberryjamma_topic349088.html?KW=raspberry

MODEL 2: the supermodel emulator can run on a pi but is far from full speed and playable. I haven't tried it personally but I've read it's about 5fps on a rpi2 (I forget what game).

I can offer a video amp added to the underside of the board for an extra AU$20. It's a little hacked in but works well. New version of the hardware will be coming soon with it designed into the board.

Quoted from the last page of posts there.

Not bad, €162 for the Pi3, adapter and posted to the EU

I'll deffo be getting one of these in a few months.

eddhorse

Too pricey for me for a juiced up pi.
Does that include shipping?

CiDeRmAn

Yeah, that's shipping from Down Under, plus the sd is configured with everything bar the "files"
He's charging €121 for the version without the Pi, including shipping.

CathalDublin

BrownFinger wrote: »

I see over on ukvac the new revision of the jamma pi is up for sale.
have a video amp this time

160e delivered including a pi3

tickle me interested

Keep me in the loop if you're ordering one of these I'd be well interested in one too

will prob be a few months tbh,
maybe he'll do a bulk deal ?
i know mozie is after one too

CiDeRmAn

Damn, plans for RP0 on hold as there's no way to pull audio off of the PCB without building something electronic-y, which I lack the skill set to do
Anyone know what the best solution is?
I wanted to get a composite signal for video, easy to to, and audio, not so easy, so I can fit it into a portable TV

Steve X2

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Damn, plans for RP0 on hold as there's no way to pull audio off of the PCB without building something electronic-y, which I lack the skill set to do
Anyone know what the best solution is?
I wanted to get a composite signal for video, easy to to, and audio, not so easy, so I can fit it into a portable TV

Any good to ya?

https://shop.pimoroni.com/collections/raspberry-pi/products/phat-dac

CiDeRmAn

I was hoping not to spend much on this project at all, but it might do the trick.
Alternatively I may sell the zero and just get a Pi2 instead, that'll have everything right there to start with, plus I can make an image of my current set up and just bung that in.

Steve X2

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

I was hoping not to spend much on this project at all, but it might do the trick.
Alternatively I may sell the zero and just get a Pi2 instead, that'll have everything right there to start with, plus I can make an image of my current set up and just bung that in.

Might as well hang on to the Pi zero, you might have a need for it in the future and it only cost about 5 euro new anyway.

CiDeRmAn

I just got paid for an art class, that's running one not posing in the nip for one (more Ole Jack's scene anyway, plus I don't want to go scaring the women folk), I'll invest in that DAC for the Zero.
Sure, if I get sick of it in this project I can make a music streamer out of it.

KeRbDoG

I'm still trying to find a working menu system for my RP arcade setup which doesn't look like bum and can scrape missing artwork. Seems the scrapers which are mostly used are pulling from sources which are now down

KeRbDoG

KeRbDoG wrote: »

I'm still trying to find a working menu system for my RP arcade setup which doesn't look like bum and can scrape missing artwork. Seems the scrapers which are mostly used are pulling from sources which are now down

Scratch that - just found a image plug'n'play'ness!

Thargor

Pi3 for €33 over in Bargain Alerts:

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057590788

Flaregon

Thinking of getting a pi, how good is retro pi "ps1 ect " and can you use a few differnt SD cards and change it to be a media player ect, also how good is it as a media player?

KeRbDoG

Flaregon wrote: »

Thinking of getting a pi, how good is retro pi "ps1 ect " and can you use a few differnt SD cards and change it to be a media player ect, also how good is it as a media player?

As a media play they are great - even better if you connect it to a TV using HDMI with the TV supporting CEC fully. Using your TV remote to control it makes it very seamless.

Steve X2

RPi Zero back in stock in various places. I grabbed another one from Pimoroni for 4 sterling.

https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/raspberry-pi-zero

Amalgam

Steve X2 wrote: »

RPi Zero back in stock in various places. I grabbed another one from Pimoroni for 4 sterling.

https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/raspberry-pi-zero

A revised Raspberry Pi Zero, Revision 1.3 with a camera port.

Courtesy of Alex Eames. (http://raspi.tv)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpoqxVJ_X2Y

Steve X2

Amalgam wrote: »

A revised Raspberry Pi Zero, Revision 1.3 with a camera port.

Courtesy of Alex Eames. (http://raspi.tv)


That'll be handy

CiDeRmAn

Just ordered one of these

and a case for my Zero and the new hub

All together and shipped for €16
Going to make a little media centre with it, or something....

imitation

Got one. Because the camera port was the reason I was not using the other one I got. And the PI 3 I got is just too darn big. Yep. I'll totally use this one..

KeRbDoG

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Just ordered one of these

What is one of these? A USB hub and some power funk?

CiDeRmAn

Gives the Pi0 4 full size USB ports and it draws from the existing power supply, plus no soldering, just screws down onto the Pi0, the case holds it all nicely together.
And for around €15 all in.
Not sure what to do with it, but I might see what Kodi looks like, seeing as I don't stream HD media from my NAS, I think it'll do fine.

imitation

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Gives the Pi0 4 full size USB ports and it draws from the existing power supply, plus no soldering, just screws down onto the Pi0, the case holds it all nicely together.
And for around €15 all in.
Not sure what to do with it, but I might see what Kodi looks like, seeing as I don't stream HD media from my NAS, I think it'll do fine.

I thought there would be one obvious option for yourself

https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/game-boy-zero/

Steve X2

The new revision of the Pi Zero arrived this morning. Not sure I have a use for the camera connector at the moment, but handy anyway.

Star Lord

Is that a full size HDMI port? Think they had mini-HDMI before, didn't they?

Never mind, forgot how small the card is, as that's around the same size as the MicroSD slot, it has to be a mini port!

Steve X2

Star Lord wrote: »

Is that a full size HDMI port? Think they had mini-HDMI before, didn't they?

Never mind, forgot how small the card is, as that's around the same size as the MicroSD slot, it has to be a mini port!

Yeah, HDMI mini port(same as previous Pi 0), should have stuck a banana beside it for scale :0)

ronanc1000

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Just ordered one of these

and a case for my Zero and the new hub

All together and shipped for €16
Going to make a little media centre with it, or something....

Have you a link? Is this essentially a Pi Zero with full size USB ports?

Edward Hopper

ronanc1000 wrote: »

Have you a link? Is this essentially a Pi Zero with full size USB ports?

http://www.uugear.com/product/zero4u/

He's cunningly put the photo itself as a link in his post. It's an add on hub for the zero.