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Mini Nintendo 64 - π64

by Trevor_Avrett

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____________________Backstory____________________

My brother's birthday was coming and I wanted to make something special, that could also serve as a little portfolio piece, (Industrial Designer). We grew up playing the N64, and I wanted to re-purpose my Raspberry Pi 3 B+ for greater use than as a PiCam for my printer.

____________________Research____________________

I researched and discovered RetroPie is an awesome little tool used to run emulation on the Pi, so then set out to either find or create a Nintendo 64 shell for the Pi3.

Elhuff has a very minimal solution, (https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2101165) but I wanted to make everything as functioning as possible. Unfortunately this appears to be the only decent model made thus far for the Pi, so this meant I had to make my own.

I downloaded Bruno Amaral's model of the N64, (https://grabcad.com/library/nintendo-64-console-1/details?folder_id=539851) (it's not perfect, -the ridge in the middle is certainl

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Thingiverse

What you need to print this: Beginner Low confidence

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FDM / FFF

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