NTRON gaming and synth console
By Andrew Gregory. Posted
Here’s a wonderful homage to 8-bit games and chiptune music: the NTRON. It comprises a console, gamepad and keyboard, and it’s both a RetroPie gaming setup and an 8-bit synth.
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Rather than a monolithic, ground-up solution, Artifextron has brought together a collection of existing hardware, wired it together, and popped it into a beautiful 3D-printed shell to create something that looks like you’ve stumbled across an unreleased bit of Nintendo hardware from the eighties.
At the heart of the NTRON, there’s a Raspberry Pi 3B+ and a Waveshare QLED 7-inch screen. Also housed in the 3D-printed case, there’s a hapiNES synth by Twisted Electron and an amp, and the MIDI keyboard is provided by a cannibalised M-Audio Keystation Mini USB keyboard. Software-wise there’s a custom IMG file for the Raspberry Pi 3B+ with all the software installed and configured, making it really plug-and-play.
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