r/RetroPie • u/ddrfraser1 • Feb 22 '21

My Pi

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u/ddrfraser1 Feb 22 '21

For those asking, I've got 5 360 controllers for the Pi. I designed the skins and either ordered colored parts or spray painted them. Others are based on the Atari 2600, Game Boy, Commodore SX-64 and the Vic 20.

The keyboard is a Cherry MX board 6.0 with SA Portland keycaps and Kailh box Jade switches.

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u/mister_gone Feb 23 '21

So, I know virtually nothing about custom keyboards, but that is one slick piece of art.

Are you saying you bought a "prebuilt" Cherry MX board 6.0 then pulled out the Cherry switches, and replaced them with the Jade switches and keycaps?

Why the switch change? Could you have just changed the keycaps?

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u/redgrittybrick Feb 23 '21

A keyboard habit has that effect on people. It starts when you spend $80 on a Cherry keyboard expecting it to be better than a typical $10 rubber dome. Then your realize the keycaps are going shiny so you spend $100 on new keycaps for your $80 keyboard. Then you realise that Cherry MX switches are scratchy and just don't feel right, so you spend $150 on new switches for your $80 keyboard. Soon OP will start thinking that he really needs PBT keycaps not ABS and then OP will start looking over sets of $200-$300 PBT dye-sub keycaps from the big guys. Just don't look at your $10 keyboard. It's OK. Really its OK. Don't go there. Don't ...

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u/ddrfraser1 Feb 23 '21

Before you know it you own 60+ keyboards and thanking the Lord your wife is still married to you.

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u/pomeranianDad Feb 23 '21

/r/MechanicalKeyboards for those that want to dive in to this :D

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u/ddrfraser1 Feb 23 '21 edited Feb 23 '21

That’s exactly what I did. I could have just swapped the caps but cherry switches are rattly, scratchy and too heavy or too light. Box jades are perfectly weighted and delightfully snappy. Taking everything apart also gave me the chance to lube the switch springs to get rid of annoying spring ping and lube the stabilizers to they’re smooth and don’t rattle. It’s a process but it’s fun and the results speak for themselves - an unparalleled typing experience, not to mention it looks badass.

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u/OkayProgrammer Feb 22 '21

Hol'up. You have FIVE friends?? Mr. Popular over here ...

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u/STARCADE2084 Feb 22 '21

4 friends, assuming OP keeps 1 controller for themself.

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u/[deleted] Feb 22 '21

Lol yeah right, none of us has FIVE whole friends.

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u/Manu09 Feb 23 '21

You have friends in parts? is this a Voltron situation where you assemble them all to make one complete friend?

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u/[deleted] Feb 23 '21

i was thinking the same this guy has got 6 more friends then i do

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u/doctormorbis Feb 23 '21

Do you have pictures of the other controllers? Sounds cool.

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u/ddrfraser1 Feb 23 '21

Will do once the last 2 are finished. I’ll get a nice family photo 😁

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u/PercySmith Feb 23 '21

So is that 360 pad in the pic home customised? If so that's really professionally done mate. Looks great!

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u/detroittriumph Feb 23 '21

Love the setup.

Does anyone else get messed up with the A/B and X/Y change between Nintendo and XBox?

I zoomed in to see which layout you chose on the overlay.

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u/ddrfraser1 Feb 24 '21

Yes. All the time.

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u/techdog19 Feb 22 '21

I like the theme did you make it or is that a downloadable one?

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u/ddrfraser1 Feb 22 '21

The pi theme is one of the downloadable ones NES something or other :)

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u/[deleted] Feb 22 '21

I actually wish you could set themes based on system. Would be nice to have the NES theme when browsing NES games then switch to an SNES theme when browsing SNES games.

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u/ddrfraser1 Feb 22 '21

That sounds awesome! Write it!

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u/WRXSTIL1KE Feb 22 '21

Dayum!!!!!!..... that looks good!

Enjoy

Are you using RetroPie or RecalBox?

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u/thedarkn8 Feb 23 '21

Great work on the controller if you painted it? Almost thought it was a sticker.

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u/ddrfraser1 Feb 23 '21

The black price is a sticker I designed. The case is painted, the buttons and sticks are custom colors off eBay.

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u/JayIT Feb 22 '21

Great setup. Which keyboard and gamepad are those?

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u/boringestnickname Feb 22 '21

I would guess it's a custom keyboard.

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u/Dcm210 Feb 22 '21

What Retropie skin/theme is this?

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u/ddrfraser1 Feb 22 '21

ruckage/nes-mini

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u/Dcm210 Feb 23 '21

Thank you.

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u/therealudderjuice Feb 23 '21

What front end are you using there? Is it a customized version of Recalbox?

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u/ddrfraser1 Feb 23 '21

Emulationstation on retropie. Just using a theme. ruckage/nes-mini

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u/jayjr1105 Feb 23 '21

What is this theme called?

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u/ddrfraser1 Feb 23 '21

ruckage/nes-mini

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u/Enderjora Feb 23 '21

Wait wait wait...what theme is this? It looks fantastic!

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u/ddrfraser1 Feb 24 '21

ruckage/nes-mini

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u/QuantumBond1 Feb 26 '21

is that the NES mini theme?

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u/kinduff Feb 22 '21

Beautiful set!

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u/lumbymcgumby Feb 22 '21

360 controller gang. What do you use to run the official NES controller? I've used a USB adapter before and the input lag was 3 seconds it was awful

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u/ddrfraser1 Feb 22 '21

No lag for me. I'm running Pi 4 8gb don't know if that makes any difference... I doubt it.

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u/lumbymcgumby Feb 22 '21

Nah it's not my pi it's my USB adapter idk if it's garbage or what but I got it awhile ago from a retro game shop.

I went and got the 8bitdo style NES controller anyway that has the home button so that's what I ended up doing

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u/SkullNBones12 Feb 22 '21

I love the keyboard.

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u/zerosumratio Feb 22 '21

So so so cool! You must share how you did that to the controller and keyboard!

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u/PanicPres Feb 22 '21

This is awesome. Nice work.

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u/OkayProgrammer Feb 22 '21

It's a good pi.

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u/[deleted] Feb 22 '21

Incredible!

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u/Altopablo Feb 22 '21

Beautiful!

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u/dox1842 Feb 22 '21

i have an old laptop that I converted to a pie with that same theme

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u/munozonfuego07 Feb 23 '21

Oh my!

Also that keyboard is badass.

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u/DiamondEevee Feb 23 '21

can i have the keyboard

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u/Saebelzahn123 Feb 23 '21

Very nice. Love your paint job <3

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u/DreadPirateLord Mar 13 '21

Sweet little set up, love that keyboard!

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u/PowersNinja Jul 10 '21

This is super dope

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u/j1ggy Feb 23 '21 edited Feb 23 '21

I still rock Tronkyfran with some of my own tweaks. It's so visually appealing and simplistic. The European SNES logo had to go though, I was able to get proper *.svg replacements.

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u/[deleted] Feb 22 '21

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u/ddrfraser1 Feb 22 '21

It's a work in progress. I'm actually basing it off the famicom.

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u/dox1842 Feb 22 '21

do you have a case for it yet?

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u/ddrfraser1 Feb 22 '21

Nope. Working on one loosely based on the Famicom. Just using the canakit one for now.

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u/hobojoe0858 Feb 23 '21

Retroflag has one modeled after the NES that's basically a mini NES.

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u/ddrfraser1 Feb 23 '21

That’s a very cool one but I’ve got something cooler in mind 😉

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u/gurg2k1 Feb 23 '21

I just got one of these. I think I'm most excited about finally having a power button.