Welcome at petrockblock!
At petrockblock you can find various topics from the world of microelectronics, tinkering, software development, and other related topics. You find our popular Raspberry Pi add-on boards ControlBlock and the PowerBlock here.
This site is also the birth-place of RetroPie, the popular retro-gaming project for the Raspberry Pi. You can find articles about the original idea and articles of the first years of the project here.
Enjoy your stay on our sites!
Recent Posts on petrockblock
RetroPie 3.2 is Released
Soon after the release of RetroPie 3.1, we are please to announce v3.2. Although only a couple of weeks have passed, there have been a fair number of improvements. Changes since 3.1: Fixed binaries of [...]
RetroPie 3.1 Released
We are pleased to announce the release of RetroPie 3.1! Among others, major features of this release are a more memory-light theme "Carbon", an initial module for bluetooth keyboard support, and and new MAME emulators. [...]
RetroPie 3.0 is Released
After 6 months of hard work we are pleased to announce the release of RetroPie 3.0. This retro-gaming project brings together a collection of popular emulators for those computers and consoles that you grew up [...]
PowerBlock: A Power Switch for the Raspberry Pi
The PowerBlock is an add-on board for the Raspberry Pi (version 1, 2, and 3) models A+ and B+. It provides a microcontroller-based power-switch functionality. This article describes the PowerBlock [...]
Take a Look at all Logo Submissions
With the announcement of the logo for the RetroPie project many people have asked for publishing all submissions to look at and give their opinions about them. So, here they are - all 84 submissions that we received. You will [...]
RetroPie has a Logo
First of all, let me say that we were overwhelmed by the number of logo proposals that the community has submitted. Thanks to all of you for your creative efforts! The logo contest ended [...]
Your Personal Retro Gaming Console (for under 90 USD)
[dropcap]S[/dropcap]o, there you have the RetroPie SD-card Image and you know that you could use it as software base for your very own game console. But what things do you actually need to get for [...]
We need you to design the RetroPie Logo
The RetroPie Team is always hard at work, coding and drinking coffee. And we are really good at… drinking coffee. Unfortunately we are not that good at graphic design. And we need your help. There are [...]