A Breath Of Fresh Air For Some Arcade Classics
It’s said that good things come in small packages; which is hard to deny when we look at all the nifty projects out there that were built into an Altoids tin. Now, if that’s already true for the regular sized box; we can be doubly excited for anything crammed into their Smalls variety ones; which is what Kayden Kehe decided to use as housing for his mintyPico; a tiny gaming console running homebrew versions of Snake, Breakout, Pong, and a few more.
As the “Pico” might have already given away, the project is built around a Raspberry Pi Pico board; and being intended as portable device, Kayden went with a version that also houses LiPo battery charging circuitry. A set of 3d-printed parts pack the board along with a matching battery and a button panel neatly into the tin itself; while a size-appropriate SSH1106 OLED goes into the lid. All design files along with the MicroPython code of the games can be found on the project’s GitHub page.
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