L10N37's C4ROM3GCP

[L10N37]

Thought I'd share my new portable.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-xU4qMTznQ

[emu_kidid]

that was quick, how long were you working on it?

[L10N37]

It was December 27th I found an old 3.5' reverse cam screen, and hooked this straight to composite out and 12v.
Then I hacked open a broken AV cable and found the resistor to earth, which corrected the screen.
Then I started ordering parts and almost everything I used comes from China/ebay and takes up to 6 weeks to arrive, so i was mainly waiting on parts.

WKF original - many many many hours over a few days trying to fix it after I wrecked the PCB (managed to get the gc-linux screen in 'load game')
I remember the Wasp only took 2 hours to hard-wire in. Just done a bit at a time. Most of the time was diagnosing things.

[novenary]

I spent many hours hardwiring last week. In the end pin1 was misconnected and then I flooded the QFP pins with solder. No hope of bringing it back for now. D:
Anyway nice GCP. It looks a bit more rustic than Ashen's godly portables but it does look good. Is it metal ?

[L10N37]

Nah, just chrome spray paint - looks a little more grey really.
yep! those pins are a bitch to solder to, you can get magnifying headsets or work benches that clip the part you're working on and have a magnifier above. (I wish I had one)
The traces under the host connector are a lot easier, I used a re flow/re-balling machine to remove it on the wasp then epoxied it down afterwards so it was quite rigid.

Yeah, ashens portables are absolutely insane! His revolution and PS2p to mention a couple are absolute gems!
Consider this one a practice portable, I've never made a portable before, just modded consoles and added USB ports to xbox's and stuff, I wouldn't consider the GameCube an easy console to start on.

Thanks to Ashen, I should be able to pull off a maximum safe cut on my next board (this ones full sized) and I'll run the next one with Zens custom regulator and some 4000Mah Li-Po's
Was thinking a simple case like this:
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/191072714349 ... 1439.l2649

Then If i make a 3rd I may take it a step further and try and get a case VAC formed. I think getting the electronics part down first is more important.

[novenary]

I just pulled the connector with my fingers but I damaged a pad or two and on the part where you need to solder even pins it's hard to do that in the same place as odd ones.

[L10N37]

Try using some pins where you have to and traces where available, or megas breakout board would be far easier to solder to and connects to original cable.

With the solder globs just dip desoldering braid in flux, get your iron real hot and put the fluxed braid on the globbed pins and heat, should soak right up you can rub it back and forth. If not snip the dirty braid off and redip and keep going. Comes off eventually

[novenary]

Did that without flux. And now I killed some pins. This WKF is officially dead. Gonna wait for Mega to sell Wasps and Megadrives.
Unless I can solder 'em back which I doubt. Probably gonna sell it.