Recent content by Charjame

Dang this is beautiful

Forgot how spicy this contestant tag was.

Hey Bitbuilt, long time no post. With this new bitbuilt summer contest rolling around, I would like to apply what I learned with my last portable, and apply it to a new portable. Not only have I not started it yet, I haven't done more than draw pictures in a notebook on my lunch break last...

Beautiful!

I'll add that it would be a good idea to check if your resistors are shorting somewhere. I've had regs give me low voltages because of that.

What kinds of music do you folks listen to? For projects, for study, or just for fun? Personally I listen to a lot of rock music, because electric guitar is by far my favorite instrument to listen to For study I switch between rain noise, classical, and VGS sometimes For fun I generally just...

https://bitbuilt.net/forums/index.php?threads/custom-regulators-an-explanation-and-guide.754/ All in here bud.

You don't need to trim any parts of the board in order to wire the screen up. The most you'd want to do is take the ports off or account for them in your case design. I'd recommend reading a ton, including the basic electronics resources. Having a general understanding of electronics will serve...

If you have the PCBs, I'd just make it. Half of the fun with this hobby is learning!

Very clean, looks sick dude. Nice work

If you're on a serious time constraint, you could get a good quality USB battery bank. They handle charge management and balancing, and they output 5v so you would only need 3 ti regs. You'd need to make sure it can output enough current though, as some banks are capped in that regard. The...

This thing is nuts. Excellent work so far

God tier. The control layout looks incredibly comfy and flat

There's a place for thicc bois with big batteries in this world. oof

Hey Guys. Some of you know me from the discord where I've been the most active. I've been wanting to build a portable since seeing the early episodes of The Ben Heck Show on youtube. In Junior year I powered a Wii and car screen with AA batteries and later found out that I'm lucky it didn't...