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Adafruit Joy Bonnet for Raspberry Pi

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SKU: ADA_3464

Description

Pocket-sized fun is the name of this game, with the Joy Bonnet – Adafruit's most fun Bonnet ever (no we didn't even think that was possible, either!). This Bonnet fits perfectly on top of your Raspberry Pi Zero (any kind) and gives you adorable hand-held arcade controls. Once you install Adafruit's script onto your Pi, the controls will act like a keyboard, for easy use with any emulator or media player.

Adafruit found this Bonnet to work best with RetroPie/EmulationStation. On a Pi Zero we could emulate NES and MAME games (our favorites!) but other emulators that don't require more than 1GHz speeds will work OK tooe.g. the N64 emulator won't work, it needs way more power!

Best of all, this Bonnet is fully assembled - no soldering at all is required. You may need to solder headers onto your Pi Zero (or use press-fit headers) but once that's done you're ready to rock. In theory, you could also use this with a Pi A+ or B+/2/3 but it wouldn't be very hand-held.

Since you'll likely grip the Pi during play, we strongly recommend a comfortable enclosure to go along with it! 

Raspberry Pi, HDMI cables, SD card, enclosure, and display not included. But we do stock all those things in the shop.

Technical Details

Setup instructions, Source code, schematic, and EagleCAD PCB files are available in the product tutorial!

Product Dimensions: 65.0mm x 30.6mm x 18.0mm / 2.6" x 1.2" x 0.7"

Product Weight: 10.8g / 0.4oz

    RoHS 2 2011 65 EU Compliant
    RoHS 2 2015 863 EU Compliant

    Adafruit Joy Bonnet for Raspberry Pi

    $14.95

    Description

    Pocket-sized fun is the name of this game, with the Joy Bonnet – Adafruit's most fun Bonnet ever (no we didn't even think that was possible, either!). This Bonnet fits perfectly on top of your Raspberry Pi Zero (any kind) and gives you adorable hand-held arcade controls. Once you install Adafruit's script onto your Pi, the controls will act like a keyboard, for easy use with any emulator or media player.

    Adafruit found this Bonnet to work best with RetroPie/EmulationStation. On a Pi Zero we could emulate NES and MAME games (our favorites!) but other emulators that don't require more than 1GHz speeds will work OK tooe.g. the N64 emulator won't work, it needs way more power!

    Best of all, this Bonnet is fully assembled - no soldering at all is required. You may need to solder headers onto your Pi Zero (or use press-fit headers) but once that's done you're ready to rock. In theory, you could also use this with a Pi A+ or B+/2/3 but it wouldn't be very hand-held.

    Since you'll likely grip the Pi during play, we strongly recommend a comfortable enclosure to go along with it! 

    Raspberry Pi, HDMI cables, SD card, enclosure, and display not included. But we do stock all those things in the shop.

    Technical Details

    Setup instructions, Source code, schematic, and EagleCAD PCB files are available in the product tutorial!

    Product Dimensions: 65.0mm x 30.6mm x 18.0mm / 2.6" x 1.2" x 0.7"

    Product Weight: 10.8g / 0.4oz

      RoHS 2 2011 65 EU Compliant
      RoHS 2 2015 863 EU Compliant

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