Raspberry Pi-Powered BMO Brings Adventure Time To Life #piday #raspberrypi @Raspberry_Pi
Raspberry Pi-poweres BMO brought brings Adventure Time to life. by Caleb Kraft via Makezine
So many Adventure Time fans wish that they could have their own personal BMO, a quirky living game system from the show. If you’re not yet familiar, watch the video below, it will give you a quick taste of BMO’s role. Obviously based on the GameBoy, BMO is the digital friend that many of us see when we gaze backwards at our childhood times with a Game boy through the lenses of nostalgia.
Mike Barretta didn’t want to leave this playful incarnation to the rose colored imaginary memories of our past, nor just the tv show which created it. Instead, he designed and built a real BMO handheld gaming system using the Raspberry Pi!
“BMO is one of my all time favorite Adventure Time characters, who doesn’t love BMO? He is full of personality from the way he is written to his awesome retro design. As a major plus his boxy shape made the design process a lot smoother. The way I placed the components wound up with a fairly chunky design but that was perfect because BMO has a fairly chunky look!”
If you wanted recreate your own, Mike has shared the complete bill of materials to help. You can get the files and more information on Thingiverse, and view a massive gallery of pictures of the build! There are 160 images in all, here are a select few.
“I ran into one major glitch that nearly drove me crazy. The Rpi A+ would not output composite video (I designed around a cheap composite display) even with no HDMI plugged in. It took 3-4 days of head scratching before I found a trick online. In the in the config.txt file add the line hdmi_ignore_hotplug=1. This tells the Pi to completely ignore the HDMI output and got my composite display to work. As a downside it shuts off HDMI output but the line can be removed by editing the .txt file on a regular PC.”
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