A New Retro Gaming Console - MultiPi and MultiPi JAMMA

[Spanky]

Looks quite good

 

[Georgian2]

Looks great. I wonder what are the advantages of using an raspberry pi pico for inputs over an atmega32u4 (arduino leonardo) programmed as keyboard.
Also an 30 seconds UPS is what is missing.

 

[John Bennett]

I'd imagine the Pico is on there as there'll be libraries to flash it from the main Pi, if needed.

There was another thread on this last week. I can't say I get it. How's this nearly three hundred quid?

 

[Georgian2]

I'd imagine the Pico is on there as there'll be libraries to flash it from the main Pi, if needed.

You could do the same with an atmega32u4?

 

[John Bennett]

Hmm. Pass. I'd put a Pico2 on everything if I could, as it's bloody brilliant, but it's not being particularly pushed as an I/O controller.

 

[Georgian2]

Also one could put an uart to rs-485 on it too and have it jvs compatible as well. There are i2c to uart chips if the uart port on the cm4 is disabled in favor of vga666.

Why is eveybody building the same thing over and over and not make something uniqe.

 

[Georgian2]

...and an output for auto-rotating monitors is good to have too.

There is just to much missing for that money.