Andrew Hale: IT Talk & Other Topics

The Bluetooth controller from the PlayStation 3 is a very popular controller to use, particularly for RetroPie. It works well with the RPi's onboard Bluetooth, once the respective driver package has been installed. I happened to have a PS3 that's been nothing but acting as a glorified Blu-Ray player, so I'm putting the wireless controller to good use. Frankly, I got it working over Bluetooth by accident. After reproducing my steps though, I can now instruct how it's done.

When I bought my first RPi, I bought a kit that included a cheap clear case. It works but I wanted something nicer looking for sitting on my TV stand in my living room. It was love at first sight for the FLIRC case. I'd like to talk about it below.

Ever since Nintendo announced that they were stopping production of the NES Classic (after what felt like months of purposely under-producing to drive up the demand/price), I've been wanting to get another Raspberry Pi and setup RetroPie on it to play the games of my childhood. Well, I recently celebrated a birthday and got a few Amazon gift cards (which I enjoy very much), so I pulled the trigger on a second RPi, which I'm dedicating specifically to RetroPie and duties. In this article, I'd like to go over configuring the RetroPie. I'm going to assume that you've already got your ROMs and I will not be covering the installation of RetroPie in this post. If you've ever setup an RPi, it's the same process. If you have not and this is your first time, then check out my recent post about the process  (It's titled for installing CentOS v7, but the process is the same for installing just about any OS to the Raspberry Pi).