a bag of parts that turns a $15 chip into your own game boy, no soldering PhD required.
means a diy kit bundling a raspberry pi zero board, screen, buttons, and case so you can build a pocket-sized retro gaming or computing handheld yourself.
from emerged after 2015 when the raspberry pi zero shipped at a wallet-friendly price, and hobbyists realized its tiny footprint fit perfectly inside game boy-shaped shells, spawning a whole cottage industry of pcb boards and 3d-printed cases.
pigrrl 2 — adafruit kit, snes-style buttons, released 2016
picade console — pimoroni tabletop arcade kit with joystick and speaker
gameboy zero — community mod fitting pi zero into a real gutted gameboy shell
pizero kitchen — budget kit line popular on aliexpress since 2018