PiGo - Handheld Raspberry Pi Gaming Console

Storytime

I always was a huge fan of handheld game consoles like the PSP, 3DS, PS Vita and so on and made it my hobby to build my own retro handheld game console from the hardware parts to the software. After many attempts, improvements and an endless list of things I learned I finally reached a point at which I want to hear what others think about it.


Hardware

The PCB can be found here: https://www.tindie.com/products/daviel/pigo-handheld-raspberry-pi-gaming-console/



Hardware-wise I made a whole custom board for the raspberry pi zero (and zero 2) which includes the following features:

- a Display port using SPI (320x240 60FPS)

- Battery charger module using USB-C with LED indicators

- battery measuring of state-of-charge

- a flat battery with 2000mah which lasts over 6 hours

- Sound chip for the speaker

- headphone jack

- a hardware clock which proceeds after the whole system is turned off

- 16 unique 3D-printed Buttons; one which could be used as a shortcut button fo