Recent content by RoseDagger

Fan turning on is a good sign. I would twist the usb data lines more, as in, use a drill or dremel to putting one end of the two wires in there, and put the other end on something fixed, really twist them together till they start curling in on itself. Then use a multimeter to check which wire...

Hi, welcome to the forum. One potential issue is this cut here, right by the USB ports, you cut into the board, and that goes straight over one of the USB lines on the other side. And you can't sand into that cut. You should cut that last bit off, and sand it down so it is smooth. And remove...

Ah yes, I used the ThunderVolt regs, as I had already used them in my ThunderKill last year, so I were familiar with them. And they are very small and compact. How much of an undervolt I would get is a lower priority as the focus is on compactness and getting it to boot. As for Hollywood-2, I...

Time for update 3! I had planned for this one to be focused on the CAD process… However, with B_rob1 releasing his schematics for the Wee Wii PCB recreation, I ended up double checking my pinout first. And good thing I did as I found a few critical issues I had missed! Also, it is really epic...

Thank you ^^ That saved me a lot of work! Now I just need to measure the filters and the feed-through caps, instead of everything. Also there were a lot more variety than I expected, I had assumed most of the decoupling caps would have been the standard 100n, but there's a lot of 2.2n and 10n...

It’s Pico time! So here is my current progress into redesigning the Wii motherboard. Most of the work has been looking through the compendium and tracing every pin from the main chips. I’ve used the OMEGA cut as a basis for which traces and passives are important and not, and it has led me to...

Oh, I had not thought of that, that's a great idea, I'll try that out ^^

Thank you ^^ I have been working on a PS3 Frankie, and have the pre-heater bed from that, a good hot air station, and a stencil jig for re-balling, so I have tried my hand at it before. And last year I did a redesign of a display driver board which included a mid sized BGA chip. So I'm mostly...

Heya, I’m back again this year! I kept thinking about what I should do for this year’s competition… So how could I push past what I tried last year this year? Then it hit me: a redesigned Wii motherboard! If I could transplant the CPU, GPU, RAM and NAND onto a completely redesigned...

TLDR: No revenge this time, final submission at the bottom though the console is not done. I needed a reprint to fix some PCB issues. (Update intended for Wednesday 22nd) Heya ^^ Sooooo, I think I have been cursed… Let me rewind. So after the last update I finished up the board, which you can...

Hey, looooooooooong time no see. Work’s been eating most of my summer, but I’m back with a big dump of updates. I’ve more or less completed all the PCBs I had planned, I just need to do final checks on them. Along with good progress on the case design. ThunderKILL Starting off with where I was...

Time for another update! First off, introducing the ThunderKILL. It's the Thundervolt, but 500% more overKILL. Specs: I2C controlled voltage regulators for 1V, 1.15V, 1.8V, 3.3V, 5V Current sensing on all of them, cause why not USB-C PD input, into an eFuse for overvoltage, overcurrent, and...

Time for a little update. Highlights this round are trimming, and jumping into the PCB rabbit hole. Wii and trimming First off, got a new Wii, it was super cheap as the case was rather banged up. Naturally, I quickly jailbroke it, and installed RVLoader. Then the fun part of tear it down...

Retro on v2 Alright, time to revive a project that’s been marinating in a box for four years. Here's where I left off, what broke, and how I plan to actually make it work this time. First off, it’s not in great shape. The back split open because the glue didn’t hold, I’m missing the shoulder...

Hi all! Back in 2021, I joined the BitBuilt community and tried my hand at portabilization with the GameBoy Adwiince v2. It even snagged 2nd place in the summer competition, despite the fact that the project crashed and burned on the very last day. I shorted the power supply during final...