Hermit Retro ZX Spectrum - A fuse/Raspberry Pi based Spectrum emulator

A ZX Spectrum - but not as you know it.
This video is about the Hermit Retro Spectrum ZX Zero Board kit. The board is more than just a breakout board for the Raspberry Pi. The kit includes a secondary SD card slot, full sized HDMI output, additional USB, I2C port (i2c.info) and joystick support. The board is a custom design but will fit into original or reproduction ZX Spectrum cases and ZX Spectrum Plus cases.
You can purchase a kit from: www.hermitretro.com/zxzero.html
However at the time of publication the Kit with a RaspberryPi is out of stock (due to the world wide chip/Raspberry Pi shortage). I purchased the kit without the Pi as I had a few spares at home.
The Spectrum is powered by the Free Unix Spectrum Emulator (FUSE)
For more info about either Hermit or Fuse please take a look at the documentation online.
* This video is not sponsored by Hermit Retro - but thanks Alastair for the great kit! *
** Please excuse the rain noise - the joys of having a loft based KZbin channel! **
** Yes I had a couple of other sound/dubbing issues **
*** At least it's only costing you time to view it!! ***
00:00 Intro
01:15 Assembly / Drag Soldering
02:10 Pins on the Pi
05:00 Complete
05:25 Ports
06:05 Boot Up
06:40 Loading Demo
08:05 Quick Look at Machine Code/Zeus
10:20 Quick Load of other games
14:00 Quick demo of Other Fuse Menus
18:10 Thanks...

[@PartarioAbdullah-Levi]

Carnage and Pins, my favourite Savile Row tailors.

[@stevesretroloft]

Lol

[@elshiftos]

Interesting, I wasn't aware of this kit until now! I made my own version of a Pi-based speccy emulator with a load of add-ons. There are videos of it on my channel for anyone that is interested.

[@stevesretroloft]

Sounds good, I'll take a look - always great to see other options

[@krige]

0:29 Where did you buy the case from? Where can we buy a case like that?

[@stevesretroloft]

You can get it from ZX-Renew - (a UK based website). There's a few others such as Retroleum & Sintech who do parts and other things.

[@gartmorn]

How is the keyboard connected to the module?

[@stevesretroloft]

It uses the standard Sinclair connections (you can see them on the video at around 05:15)

[@gartmorn]

@@stevesretroloft thanks! Don’t know how I missed it!

[@stevesretroloft]

No worries. If you're interested in the device it might be worth keeping an eye on the hermit retro website as the creator is working on a Raspberry Pi Pico version of the board due to lack of the standard Raspberry Pi Zero.

[@gartmorn]

yeah that sounds interesting. I have a couple of zeros and a few picos! I had bought a replica case and keyboard to make a spectrum emulator using a pi 3A+ but am still waiting for a keyboard interface board to be produced by another KZbinr (The Retro Shack). He has done a few videos on it!

[@tech1nocat]

flux! :)

[@stevesretroloft]

Old solder from about 20 years ago!