I used a screen, lens and buttons from Retro Game Repair Shop, a USB-C battery board from Gil Tesa, and Helder’s Pocket Power Regulator. Pocket SP in profileīut first, some acknowledgements: Thank you to the ITP/IMA shop and the NYU Makerspace for providing 3D printing facilities, materials and fabrication advice, and to the ITP/IMA Documentation Lab for the amazing well-lit glamour shots of the Pocket SP that you see throughout this post. In this post, I’m going to talk about why and how I made the Pocket SP, and how you can make your own. The 3D models and PCB layouts for the Pocket SP are available on GitHub. Along the way I taught myself CAD (with FreeCAD), PCB design (with KiCad) and 3D printing. The build has a pair of custom-designed flex PCBs to make routing signals between the two halves of the board easier. It’s a Game Boy Pocket motherboard that I cut in half and then put into a custom-designed shell with a hinge, a la the Game Boy Advance SP. Over the summer I dug in deep with Game Boy modding and made this: the Game Boy Pocket SP. When to hold ’em and when to fold ’em: Adding a hinge to a Game Boy that God never intended When to hold ’em and when to fold ’em: Adding a hinge to a Game Boy that God never intended
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