With the release of the Raspberry Pi Zero last month, we’ve been waiting in enjoyment to see the very first innovative hacks to find out, making utilize of its small size; which if you didn’t know, is smaller than a business card. [Terence Eden] hopped to it as well as made what may be the very first Raspberry Pi Zero emulator: inside an Xbox controller.
Thanks to its little size it’s really a relatively directly ahead hack with very little adjustment to the controller in order to make it fit. In fact, you only requirement to eliminate the memory card holder from the controller as well as snip one bit of plastic in order to make it in shape right in the middle — awesome.
Now it does stand out a bit as you can see in the pictures, however we’re sure it won’t take somebody long to make a 3D printed part that snaps into the controller providing it a more stock appearance. unfortunately since HDMI can’t bring a power source to the Pi, [Terence] is utilizing a micro-USB to power it — however there is sufficient area inside the controller for a battery pack if you wished to make it truly portable.
On the software application side, he’s utilizing a pre-built picture of RetroPie which means you quite much just requirement to tons it as well as go. Is it just us or is the Raspberry Pi foundation working? super accessible as well as simple to utilize computing for all!
PS: In situation you’ve been living under a rock as well as still don’t understand what the Pi Zero is, you can inspect out our original protection of the gadget here, as well as a more complete history as well as explanation of it here.
[Thanks Max!]