If you’re thinking about building a single tiny game or even a platform, you might be tempted to use a single button for everything. Such is the case with [Alex]’s Salsa ONE minimalist game console, which is inspired by both the Arduboy and the ergonomics of the SanDisk Sansa music player.
With Salsa ONE, [Alex] aimed to make something that is both simple and challenging. The result is something that, awesomely enough, doesn’t need a PCB, and can be comfortably controlled with just one thumb. There isn’t much to this thing, which is essentially an RP2040, an OLED, a vibration motor, a buzzer, a button, and a CR2032 coin cell. [Alex] chose to program Salsa ONE in MicroPython. Be sure to check it out in action in the brief demo after the break.
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but there’s a pcb on the LCD and the micro controller, and the perf board holding it together got printed at some point :p
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Maybe there are so many PCBs they hope you become desensitized to them and don’t see them anymore
It looks to me like there are three PCBs being used here.
Your name sounds vaguely familiar…
He’s your long-lost twin?
Comments on the video turned off? No schematics, parts list, or anything else, on either hackaday or YT?
Lame.
Whole lot of PCBs in that pic for being no PCBs….
Don’t be so picky about the PCB thing in the title, everybody knows exactly what is meant: This device is build together with some simple stock parts and scraps, which is the THE BEST DESIGN for every entry-level tinkerers to easily reproduce it, learn in the process and in case of this simple game have fun with the result as well.
I love this project, honest kudos to the inventor for making it so neat, easy and probably fun to play!
AMAZING! 100% PCB TYPE THING THAT IS NOT A PCB!!1!!1