Hazbin Hotel Purse

Functional purse with SNES controller that can play a multitude of ROMs with a Vox face screensaver. Runs on Retropie on a Raspberry Pi 3.

Purse Supplies

2.8″ TFT Display – 240×320 with Capacitive Touchscreen (note: this does not actually need to be touchscreen, this was just the right size for what I wanted)
Raspberry Pi 3 Model B
Heat Sinks
Micro USB Cable
External Battery (you will likely get low voltage warnings, I ignore them)
Wall Charger (I personally used this while setting up, I don’t actually know if helped or if the external battery would be good enough)
32 GB microSD Card (must be compatible with Pi)
Wireless SNES Controller
Purse
Fastening Equipment (This is way too much but I don’t know where you can get it not in bulk, you’ll need the screws, nuts, and spacers)

Plug into pi:
- USB keyboard
- HDMI monitor
- Wall Charger (or external battery but I haven’t tested that)
- Wireless SNES controller
- Ethernet cable
Put the Display on top of the Pi (there are no wires or soldering, you just stick it on top)
Download whatever ROMs you want (google is your friend) to your computer
Download Vox Faces to your computer
Set up Retropie
Transfer your ROMs and the Vox Faces using a USB stick
- This is my fix that could probably be better, pick a random ROM folder and put the Vox Face files in it (write it down so you don’t forget, I personally choose snes)
Quit the emulator, and from the terminal, install the display
- Do NOT use the virtual environment, skip straight to ‘Easy Single Command Install Options’
- Make sure to use the ‘Mirrored Install Commands’ for ‘PiTFT 2.8″ Capacitive touchscreen’
Set the Vox Faces as the screensaver
- From the emulator, hit start, UI Settings, Screensaver Settings
- Set ‘Screensaver Behavior’ to ‘Slideshow’
- Under Slideshow Screensaver Settings
  - Set ‘Stretch Image’ to ‘On’
  - Set ‘Use Custom Images’ to ‘On’
  - Set ‘Custom Image Dir’ to wherever you put the Vox Faces files, for example I put it in ‘/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/snes’
- Test the screensaver by going back to the main screen and pressing select, if it works Vox’s face should show up
Setting up the pi is complete!

Cut the leather side flaps out of the front pocket (leave the edges sewn into the purse, it holds it together, otherwise it will fall apart)
Seam rip the card holder/mini wallets out of the front and back panel of the front pocket
Remove the front wallet pocket from the middle pocket. DO NOT REMOVE THE LEATHER SIDE FLAPS. It will be really hard to remove this, use any combination of ripping, seam rippers, and scissors you can. You just need it enough so that you can access the mounting screws at a later step.
Cut the leather side flaps out of the back pocket (leave the edges sewn into the purse, it holds it together)

Measure the following and cut the red center diagonally so that it turns into triangles with an xacto blade (DO NOT CUT THE OUTSIDE EDGES) on the very front piece
Cut the foam and the pink cloth board on the straight lines/edges of the square so that you can remove them completely, but leave the leather as triangle flaps that can fold in. DO NOT CUT THE LEATHER OFF. Each measurement below is from the seam, not from the outer edge of the purse.
Superglue the flaps so that they are out of the way

Punch a hole using an xacto blade ¾” from the right seam and just below the top seam that the microUSB can fit through
Using the xacto blade, cut holes outlined below. Optionally use a pen to make the hole bigger
Unmount the screen from the Raspberry Pi
Add heat sinks to the Raspberry Pi
Attach the spacers to the nuts through the purse
Attach the Raspberry Pi to the spacers with the screws
Attach the microUSB cable to the external battery and put it in the middle pocket, loop the wire once to shorten it, and push through the hole to the front pocket
Mount the screen back onto the Raspberry Pi
Plug the microUSB cable into the Raspberry Pi

Close up the purse and you’re done!

Note: It may be iffy on if it lets you shut it down without having to just unplug it