Pseudonymous maker “borpendy” has created a Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5-powered dual-screen handheld impressed by, and able to emulating, Nintendo’s traditional DS — with fashionable dual-analog-stick management and twin touchscreen shows.
“The DSpi is a Twin Display Linux handheld powered by a Rasberry Pi Compute Module 5, designed primarily for [Nintendo] DS emulation,” borpendy explains of the gadget. “The machine encompasses a 5000mAh battery, [Microsoft] Xbox-pattern controller with twin analog sticks, twin 480p [MIPI] DSI [Display Serial Interface] touchscreens, stereo audio system, and a DAC [Digital to Analog Converter] + headphone amp.”
Fancy a Linux-powered Nintendo DS-alike? The DSpi delivers precisely that, because of a {custom} Raspberry Pi CM5 service. (📷: borpendy)
The design of the machine, put in in a custom-built 3D-printed housing, roughly mimic’s Nintendo’s DS, the primary in its household of dual-screen clamshell handhelds and initially launched in 2004. The place the Nintendo DS had just one resistive touchscreen and one non-touchscreen, although, the DSpi has twin capacitive touchscreens — no stylus required.
Contained in the housing is a {custom} service board for the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5, the computer-on-module variant of the favored Raspberry Pi 5 single-board laptop. It is linked to the 2 800×480 IPS shows over MIPI DSI, with stereo audio system pushed over I2S by way of a pair of Analog Gadgets MAX98357 amplifiers. The headphone output makes use of a Texas Devices PCM5102 digital to analog converter and a devoted Diodes Integrated PAM8908 headphone amplifier. There is a TI BQ25890 battery administration chip for the 5Ah battery, and the Xbox-inspired dual-analog management system is pushed by a Raspberry Pi RP2040 microcontroller.
The case is totally 3D-printable, together with its hinge mechanism. (📷: borpendy)
The DSpi is not borpendy’s solely plan for a Raspberry Pi moveable: the maker is engaged on a extra modular design comprised of a Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 service that connects to daughterboards adapting it to a spread of codecs together with a DSpi successor, a bigger dual-7″-display handheld, a “controller-sized PC” with HDMI video output however no on-board show, and a laptop-size cyberdeck with a ultimate type issue but to be decided.
Borpendy has launched design recordsdata, 3D print recordsdata, firmware, and the promise of working system photographs to comply with on GitHub underneath an unspecified license, however warns that “that is nonetheless a principally experimental venture, and will nonetheless use a number of work — particularly on the software program aspect in bettering the consumer expertise.”
