It’s said that superior points appear in smaller deals, which is challenging to deny when we appear at all the nifty tasks out there that were created into an Altoids tin. Now, if that’s previously legitimate for the frequent sized box, we can be doubly psyched for anything at all crammed into their Smalls variety kinds, which is what [Kayden Kehe] resolved to use as housing for his mintyPico, a tiny gaming console functioning homebrew versions of Snake, Breakout, Pong, and a few extra.
As the “Pico” could possibly have by now specified away, the task is designed all over a Raspberry Pi Pico board, and getting meant as transportable product, [Kayden] went with a variation that also properties LiPo battery charging circuitry. A set of 3d-printed pieces pack the board along with a matching battery and a button panel neatly into the tin by itself, although a measurement-suitable SSH1106 OLED goes into the lid. All design documents together with the MicroPython code of the game titles can be located on the job’s GitHub web page.
You may possibly have felt this peculiar sense of familiarity when you browse the challenge’s name, and without a doubt, the mintyPi gaming console was a major inspiration for [Kayden] here, as was the Pico Snake challenge. Thinking about this was his junior calendar year substantial university task, this is surely an amazing and good mash-up of individuals two projects.
