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 system includes 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, due to a {custom} Raspberry Pi CM5 provider. (📷: borpendy)
The design of the system, 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} provider board for the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5, the computer-on-module variant of the favored Raspberry Pi 5 single-board laptop. It is related to the 2 800×480 IPS shows over MIPI DSI, with stereo audio system pushed over I2S through a pair of Analog Units MAX98357 amplifiers. The headphone output makes use of a Texas Devices PCM5102 digital to analog converter and a devoted Diodes Included 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 absolutely 3D-printable, together with its hinge mechanism. (📷: borpendy)
The DSpi is not borpendy’s solely plan for a Raspberry Pi transportable: the maker is engaged on a extra modular design comprised of a Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 provider that connects to daughterboards adapting it to a variety 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 remaining kind issue but to be decided.
Borpendy has launched design information, 3D print information, firmware, and the promise of working system pictures to observe on GitHub underneath an unspecified license, however warns that “that is nonetheless a principally experimental challenge, and will nonetheless use a variety of work — particularly on the software program facet in enhancing the consumer expertise.”
