Pico Game Console

Rendered this beautiful demo!!!
Cuz the PCB itself is actually kinda chopped so I gotta rendered this demo myself lol
On top of that I also published the files to github hope you guys like it

Time to order the PCB!
This time I decided to print the board double sided, while making the stencils as small as possible
Something i noticed was that top&bottom stencils didnt acc cost more than single only top so why nott
On top of that, I also added all the components to my cart and they’re now ready to order!

Alr finally routing everything. Time to do some clean up and ready to order the gerber!!

• RP2040 cluster
• SD card
• Screen pin holes
• Including all buttons from the original gameboy

Almost done routing the PCB!! Now I only have 10 traces left
*** I also removed RUN cuz I don really mind unplugging the game console lol

Finished routing for the following parts:

• Flash Storage
• Power Supply
• Buttons (except the start and select)
• SD cards

Huge progress!! Here’s what i did in the past two hours

• Positioned most parts (except some resistors and capacitors)
• Removed Bootsel and reset buttons with a connector
• Added pull-up resistors and caps

Well well well guys this is getting frustrating, how in the world does my SD card module doens’t match those on github………HOWWWWWWW

Assigned footprints and began routing the PCB!!!
Since this is the very first prototype, I’ll use the screen module and very simple buttons
Btw I also decided to use the 16MB flash storage! Why? Just in case lol

Finally finished the schematic!!! Here’s some changes I made

• Upgraded flash storage from 2MB to 16MB
• Pull-up every pin for SD card
• Removed external power-supply cluster
  *** Note that I’ll add battery in V2 but for now let’s just focus on the core functionality

Working on SD schematic and learning SD to SPI translation so that my RP2040 could read games from SD card
*** I didn’t even know there was translation between SD and SPI, so I spent so much time figuring out

Roughly finished the schematic for the game boy console!!!

• RP2040
• USB-C + RT6154AGQW
• LCD Screen

After 2 hours of struggle, finally FINISHED THE PROTOTYPE

• SDcard breakout module is now connected and running (I stored Pokemon red version)
• Screen can now display what is inside the sd card
• Users can now press button A (GPIO 7) to enter the game

Spent some time roughly wiring up the screen tho it doesn’t work somehow (probly cuz i haven’t soldered my pins