Pocket-sized fun is the name of this game, with the Joy Bonnet – our most fun Bonnet ever (no we didn't even think that was possible, either!). This Bonnet fits perfectly on top of your Raspberry Pi Zero (any kind) and gives you adorable hand-held arcade controls. Once you install our script onto your Pi, the controls will act like a keyboard, for easy use with any emulator or media player. Personally, we found this Bonnet to work best with RetroPie/EmulationStation. On a Pi Zero we could emulate NES and MAME game (our favorites!) but other emulators that don't require more than 1GHz speeds will work OK too, e.g. a N64 emulator won't work, it needs way more power! Best of all, this Bonnet is fully assembled - no soldering at all is required. You may need to solder headers onto your Pi Zero (or use press-fit headers) but once that's done you're ready to rock. In theory you could also use this with a Pi A+ or B+/2/3 but it wouldn't be very hand-held. Since you'll likely grip the Pi during play, we strongly recommend a comfortable enclosure to go along with it! The Adafruit Pi Zero case works well and is nice and rounded for easy holding. A Mini HDMI cable will also make it easy to plug-and-play into your HDMI screen. Raspberry Pi, HDMI cables, SD card, enclosure, and display not included. But we do stock all those things in the shop.
E**H
Good for a novelty
This was a breeze to go into the command line on the emulator that I use and installed the support for the buttons and joy stick from the and it was all done within 15 minutes start to playing a game to test it. You do need to solder a header (which does not come included, 2x20 male header) onto the pi board, which is an almost easy task if you have never done it before. It's the size of a Pi Zero obviously, you can use a normal usb controller for a fraction of the cost but I wanted this to have a quick and easy plug and play (hdmi and power cord) when I am away from home if I'm stuck at a hotel or at the family cabin and it's raining. I personally have not experienced any heat from holding any buttons for too long but I've only handled it for a couple hours, mapping the buttons took a bit of time since at first it was not recognized but somehow it mapped it as "keyboard" and had no problems once it took
B**L
Dab of glue would make it a 5 star.
Works well no major issues, but the joystick falls off fairly easy out of the box. Dab of glue would make it a 5 star.
P**P
Dowload drivers
Nice. Wish i had more timento play with it.
A**O
Looks cool
Pretty cool joystick to have and I have this connected with my pi zero w and plays gba and other games nice
J**Y
Joy bonnet is poor design, 1&2buttons get hot went press and hold for 2-5 sec.
Buttons on Top (#1,#2 )buttons get hot if hold too long. Joy bonnet is poor made, no case.Direction D-pad doesn't work, can't be map, Ask for refund, seller didn't offer free shipping. I have to paid $4.89 to ship it back to get refund.
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