UPDATED OCT 2. WE PLACED OUR ORDER FOR PARTS TODAY AND ORDERED 6 SETS OF Pi's, SD cards, and USB controllers. You can sign up for the class and bring your own raspberry pi, sd card and your own usb controller (or just use your keyboard, though it's not as much fun), or be one of the 6 people who buy their pi's, sd cards and controllers from us. Once we're out, we're out.
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Since its release, the $35 Raspberry Pi mini-computer has been hailed as the perfect all-in-one computer. In this hands-on workshop you’ll build your own retro game console. We’ll build our pi computer, install a new system and emulator, load roms from our computers, and get peripherals such as game controllers working. By the end of class you’ll have your own MAME machine capable of playing games for Atari, Nintendo, Sega Genesis, Commodore64, NeoGeo and more.
IMPORTANT: You must bring your own computer (to configure the sd card) and monitor (TV or HDMI). You can bring or bulk order with us a raspberry pi, sd card, and game controller(s). Please place your order for parts/raspberry pi/controllers by Sep 30 as we will be ordering all parts October 1 and can’t guarantee we’ll have additional supplies.
NOTE ON SUPPLIES: You can use any Raspberry Pi model. We will need an external keyboard and mac (we will have a few provided in class but recommend bringing your own if you have extra so you don't have to wait!) during install. In addition to the raspberry pi computer, you will need a 4GB SD card. USB game controllers are highly recommended. You can use any TV as long as it takes an S-Video input, or any HDMI monitor. Do not forget that you must supply your own monitor! The SNES Retro controller we will order is sold singly. If you want two, order two.