Pi Zero W

[jermzz]

it's not even a case of "someone make it work" but just hooking up a plain button board like Helders original button PCB, into the control board of a BT gamepad.

but helder's board already has a built in hub...

[Duke23er]

What did you think, is it possible to run two Controllers with the Onboard Bluetooth or is there another Chance to play with two Bluetooth Controller?

Last week I ordered a pi zero from pimoroni.com
Now I´m not sure if I would use this for the GBZ or ordering a pi zero w.

It´s my first pi projekt and I do not have the best technical knowledge and also my english is not the best.
Sorry, for that!

[abrugsch]

but helder's board already has a built in hub...

ICYMI:

...a plain button board like Helders original...

which is a PCB that literally just has the landing pads for D-Pad, A,B,X,Y, start,select. there are loads about from before the AIO's became a thing. one of which was made by helder and orderable directly from OSHPark.
just so there's no mistake, it looks like this:

it doesn't have ANYTHING on it except PCB traces and points to connect to something else

[jermzz]

but helder's board already has a built in hub...

ICYMI:

...a plain button board like Helders original...

which is a PCB that literally just has the landing pads for D-Pad, A,B,X,Y, start,select. there are loads about from before the AIO's became a thing. one of which was made by helder and orderable directly from OSHPark.
just so there's no mistake, it looks like this:

it doesn't have ANYTHING on it except PCB traces and points to connect to something else

oh. Forgot his first boards didn't have a hub.

So why would you order one from ophshark rather than just use a USB hub which is just a few bucks and free 2 day from amazon? Is it worth ordering on ophshark and buying a controller to take the Bluetooth controller rather than just buying a few dollar hub?

[abrugsch]

Neither is necessarily better, just another option

[moosepr]

It all depends what your after too! The more additional components you add into the pi will all add up the power usage.

Using a board with no hub, wired directly to gpio pins will last longer on battery than using a hub, and a teensy to do the same job

[YeahTHATchucK]

My Microcenter doesn't have the Pi Zero W in-store yet. Hopefully next week. I'm thinking of using the wifi for data transfer with my home PC. Maybe I'll write a small game-sync program that lets you select which games you want and takes care of file management for you. Does anybody know if something like this already exists?

[Vvizzini]

Im in US, Ordered 1 last night from canakit im thru dealing with why everything but my wifi works.