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ControlBlock: Power Switch, Game Controllers, and I/O for the Raspberry Pi
The RetroPie Project has motivated many people to build their own gaming stations. Two issues regularly came up in discussions about these projects: First: What is a simple solution for turning the...
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Your Personal Retro Gaming Console (for under 90 USD)
So, there you have the RetroPie SD-card Image and you know that you could use it as software base for your very own game console. But what things do you actually need to get for it? What hardware do...
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PowerBlock: A(nother) Power Switch for the Raspberry Pi
The PowerBlock is an add-on board for the Raspberry Pi (version 1 and 2) models A+ and B+. It provides a microcontroller-based power-switch functionality. This article describes the PowerBlock itself,...
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RetroPie 3.1 Released
We are pleased to announce the release of RetroPie 3.1! Among others, major features of this release are a more memory-light theme “Carbon”, an initial module for bluetooth keyboard support, and and...
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New Revision of the PowerBlock: Increased Flexibility
The PowerBlock is a small support shield for the Raspberry Pi that provides a power switch functionality. Recently, we have updated the design of the PowerBlock such that it now offers an even greater...
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All gadgets fully compatible with Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+
Hi everyone! This is a short post about the compatibility of our boards with the new Raspberry Pi model. As you probably already have heard the Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ was recently released. Compared...
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PowerBlock and ControlBlock are fully compatible with Raspberry Pi 4 now!
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PowerBlock and ControlBlock also Support Momentary Buttons
Many of you have asked for the possibility to support toggle as well as momentary buttons for safely switching your Raspberry Pi on and off. We are glad to announce that the ControlBlock and the...
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PowerBlock: A Safe Power Button for Emteria.OS
If you are looking for a power button solution for your Emteria.OS project that makes use of a Raspberry Pi then look no further: The PowerBlock now supports Emteria.OS. Emteria.OS describes itself as...
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ExtensionBlock: A three-way GPIO distributor for the Raspberry Pi
Did you ever want to use two add-on boards for the Raspberry Pi at the same time? That was not possible, because the boards were not stackable? We might have something for you then! The ExtensionBlock...
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