PiColeco Do It Yourself Multicart for the Colecovision

A very interesting “Do it yourself” project was posted on the Atariage forum in the Colecovision section, by user aotta, which supplies information on making a flash multi-cart using a clone of the Raspberry Pi PICO, a simple circuit board and one diode. The parts cost is around $11 total, so anyone who can solder should be able to undertake this project.
I thought I would do a video showing my efforts at putting one together and go through the steps of how to set up the Raspberry Pi PICO and of course, try it out on real hardware.
#retro #gaming #colecovision #raspberrypi #pico #multicart

See the original forum post here:
https://forums.atariage.com/topic/366660-picoleco-a-diy-multicart-for-colecovision/

And the GitHub repository here:
https://github.com/aotta/PiCOLECO

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