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When visiting MGC, it's important to pack only the essentials. I love Gming! Hmm... (This picture nearly 10 years in the making why did it take so long) I posted this in the WaveWider thread but I'll post it again here, since it was my whole setup. Lots of people tried and subsequently...

Now that we're post-MGC, the rest of ya'll can see the build process. I didn't want any spoilers so I'd have something special to show everyone, so I kept things here to a minimum. But now I'll walk you through how it all went down. As with any portable, the design starts from an initial dream...

Have been mostly doing misc assembly things for the last week or so; I had largely finished up the core wiring when the power board arrived. I'm happy to report that everything worked perfectly, including ~95% of the software as well. I wasn't able to test everything locally in advance, but what...

Oh right, updates. Admittedly I just spent most of February printing and programming. Until now, I never actually needed to dial in my 3D printer for anything meaningful, since I only got it to knock out a handful of custom aquarium brackets, and the defaults were fine for that. For a smaller...

Most of my time towards this project lately has been spent on programming and power board design, but I recently wired up a controller port, USB and Bluetooth so I could go ahead and do some preliminary heatsink testing. This heatsink is a mix of active and passive cooling; my hope is that the...

This is pretty neat. I've long wondered about screwing with these boards like this, glad to see it's possible.

Here's a tip for anyone who decides to do an OMEGA trim on a Wii Mini - the internal voltage layers are not as forgiving as the standard Wii. These funny whatevers get marooned when you trim this far in. Fortunately the solution is simple: Crazy thing is, even without this, I still got the...

So, let's talk about the end of the WaveRider. See, back in 2018, in transit back home from MGC, something really hot happened to it - Too Hot For BitBuilt! I'll post the full pics on my OnlyHams at some point. Ultimately what once was a fully functional portable quickly became a sadness-filled...

Long ago, a fledgling phoenix was born into this world. The first of its kind, it soared through green skies on electric wings, radiating mysticism and potential. As it rose, its flight was undeviating; as if it had only been born for a singular purpose. Higher and higher the nestling climbed...

The naming scheme is a nice touch. I approve.

The Definitive Wii Trimming Guide

Doom was undoubtedly one of the best people I knew. He was one of the few people in the community that was around before even I was, so he witnessed my journey from "annoying BenHeck forum user with nothing but drive" to, well - whatever I am now. We got along because he was so chill, and no...

Happy to have been able to contribute.

Forget the altoids tin. If this works, the correct move is to put it in a wiimote. Or at least, that was my old plan, but I ran out of todorsauce before trying to get this far, and boy howdy is that stuff hard to find. The premise of just scoring the board might require a revisit; when I bent...

Nice work. I'm happy that you kept the naming convention and expanded upon it. I'm sure the trim is cool too.

I remember the big pig from last year, now there's a smaller second pig....perhaps by 2023 we'll have a third, even smaller pig. I wasn't there and have no pictures, but cheese took one just for me and I'm excited for it to be posted.

Oh yeah, while I'm actually on the forums. I've got like, a whole ass video script written, but basically since getting back from MGC with this thing it's taken a bit of a backseat. I'll almost definitely bring it to the next one, so maybe around that time I'll revisit the idea of making a...

Download - Full size (.PDN) Get Paint.NET Download - Full size (.XCF) Get GIMP So, this was something I was working on back in the day. I was planning to clean it up a bit more, get things more sorted and labeled, add more revisions, etc. - but that never came to fruition. There's one major...

So this is the unit I built - very peanut N64 laptop. It managed to run the whole time with no issues, the bottom barely got warm so I'm pretty satisfied with the MGC stress test - not all the portables I've built have been that lucky. Like the display says it was assembled mere hours before it...

Are you ready now? To witness a power not seen for thousands of years?