My take on SD gecko

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My take on SD gecko

Post by marcus9199 » Tue Jun 17, 2014 5:12 am

I'm getting antsy waiting on my mega drive stuff so I figured I'd build an SD gecko out of a gamecube mic.
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Re: My take on SD gecko

Post by emu_kidid » Tue Jun 17, 2014 5:20 am

not bad, how does it look closed up again? I prefer to use cheap memory cards personally.
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Re: My take on SD gecko

Post by marcus9199 » Tue Jun 17, 2014 5:32 am

Thanks I usually use cheap ones too, but I've been wanting one for a while that the SD card would sit almost flush with. I still need to button it up but this is it closed up.
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Post by emu_kidid » Tue Jun 17, 2014 5:43 am

looks great from the top. I would stick a activity LED where the hole for the cable was!
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Re: My take on SD gecko

Post by marcus9199 » Tue Jun 17, 2014 6:08 am

Yep that's what I have. First one I've built with an led, it's stays on all the time but it does flash brighter when it's accessing.
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Re: My take on SD gecko

Post by marcus9199 » Tue Jun 17, 2014 6:28 am

One more with SD card ejected.
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Re: My take on SD gecko

Post by emu_kidid » Tue Jun 17, 2014 6:35 am

Not sure if it should be always on, although I haven't done a LED mod myself before, I assume you're using this diagram:
http://www.gc-forever.com/wiki/index.php?title=SDGecko
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Post by marcus9199 » Tue Jun 17, 2014 7:17 am

Yeah that's the one I'm using no resistor though. I am having trouble now though I should have checked before I got out the super glue swiss reads the contents of the card fine but crashes when I try to load, same SD card in my other SD geckos runs games fine. So I have screwed up somewhere. But I'm tired so I guess I'll try tommorow. Thanks for the comments.
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Post by iamdablasta » Tue Jun 17, 2014 10:44 am

marcus9199 wrote:Yeah that's the one I'm using no resistor though. I am having trouble now though I should have checked before I got out the super glue swiss reads the contents of the card fine but crashes when I try to load, same SD card in my other SD geckos runs games fine. So I have screwed up somewhere. But I'm tired so I guess I'll try tommorow. Thanks for the comments.
You need the resistor.
When not being accessed the power is lower than when being accessed.
By using a resistor of correct size it will only turn on when being accessed.
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Re: My take on SD gecko

Post by marcus9199 » Wed Jun 18, 2014 1:06 am

Okay I did get the correct resistor and it worked but I guess I'm kind of weird I like the light being on and flashing brighter as it access it. So now it's all working with led included. And once again I'm amazed by SWISS. Is great loading of my SD card like this.
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Post by megalomaniac » Wed Jun 18, 2014 1:10 am

put a 100 Mohm resistor on that thing before you go blind
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Re: My take on SD gecko

Post by marcus9199 » Wed Jun 18, 2014 3:14 am

Ha ha. I'm about to make it worse I got an led strip kit for the inside.
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Post by marcus9199 » Wed Jun 18, 2014 3:16 am

Okay for the next try!
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Post by marcus9199 » Wed Jun 18, 2014 4:28 am

Prepping the men card. Trying to keep pin 1- 12 trace in tact. But I'm a screw up so we will see.
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Post by megalomaniac » Wed Jun 18, 2014 4:48 am

on that last pic...

look at the pads....see the scratch marks where the pins contact the pad....
below the scratchmarks are clean and untouched...
if you can keep tight precision, you can solder a pad to pad wire jumper in the untouched area
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Post by marcus9199 » Wed Jun 18, 2014 4:50 am

And its still in tact!!!
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Post by marcus9199 » Wed Jun 18, 2014 5:12 am

Okay my solder skills are crap but leads are attached
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Post by marcus9199 » Wed Jun 18, 2014 5:43 am

SD socket connected. Sorry mega I didn't see your post until I moved on. Thanks for the comments.
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Post by marcus9199 » Wed Jun 18, 2014 6:04 am

Okay I'm tired I'll continue tomorrow.
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Post by iamdablasta » Wed Jun 18, 2014 10:58 am

Looks good to me, well done :)
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Post by marcus9199 » Wed Jun 18, 2014 10:51 pm

Thanks hopefully it will work.
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Re: My take on SD gecko

Post by marcus9199 » Thu Jun 19, 2014 2:11 am

Okay I had to make another go at it. I melted some wire insulation and the wires were shorting.
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Re: My take on SD gecko

Post by marcus9199 » Thu Jun 19, 2014 5:57 am

And hours later finally done.
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