My First Portable

[SKYCORN]

I've wanted to build a portable for a while now and have decided to make it this summer. Because this is my first portable, I think I'll use a Raspberry Pi to emulate a SNES. I chose a Raspberry Pi because they are inexpensive and simple to use, but if someone with more experience making portables has any suggestions, that would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Dark Portable]

What kind of portable are you looking for?

 

[SKYCORN]

Something simple to make and not too expensive, the console doesn't matter too much because every console I can think of has games that I will enjoy playing

 

[Doom]

Pi's are probably the easiest starting project, yeah. There's so much information that every step is practically spoon fed to you so it's a good entry into electronics. Honestly other projects are way more impressive but that really shouldn't be anything you should be worried about for project #1.

Just think about:

-what games you want to play which will factor into:
-what pi you are going to use
-what kind of case you want, theres pre-made ones that look like gameboys or whatever or if you want to 3D print your own design, or just follow a tutorial from a 3D printed rpi portable.

Adafruit is not necessarily a good company from their business store side of things, but they have a lot of tutorials and how-to's to get you started in the right direction. Lots of cases to look at on thingiverse as well.