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Hi there, 1. There is no real easy way to do this unfortunately. The BOM is on the GitHub and some parts you may have to hand solder like the USB2422 and TPS82085 which are both out of stock. You can get the board working without them but it requires some hand wiring. Reach out to makerfabs as...

Wow! It’s commendable that you were able to get this working let alone in the short time frame you did. I’m excited for what’s to come! Do you plan on building a fully integrated portable/your own spin on the PS2 slim? I hope you also go back to your CM4 portable at some point too, whenever...

The grub screws go through the top half of the case and press up against the part of the hinge that doesn’t rotate, to make sure they don’t fall out. There’s one on each side, one per hinge. There’s no grub screws inside of the screen halves. If you look at the CAD files you’ll see how it has...

Dock is now partially working - for those who want to try it themselves, code base available here, written in C and Python. Still a work in progress but should be done in the next couple of weeks. Right now it only displays Pi stats and a basic combined image + a splashscreen, but I have plans...

This is fantastic stuff, I especially like the heatspreader idea. That PCB looks gorgeous. Best of luck with the BGAs too!

Difficulty wise in terms of assembly it’s very easy, mostly drop in with only soldering of the speakers required. It becomes a lot more complicated if you’re doing the assembly of the PCBs but that’s no different to assembling any other bare board - you just need a stencil, a steady hand and a...

The Retro Lite CM4 is open source now for anyone who wants to build one - CM4 availability is supposed to improve in a few months, so thought it would be good timing to release it: https://github.com/StonedEdge/Retro-Lite-CM4 A written build guide/part sourcing guide will come in the coming...

We used two grub screws to hold them in place through the base of the hinge. It was quite a tight fit but I never had any issues with the use of grub screws.

To be honest I’m not entirely sure yet. The Radxa CM5 will probably have a lot more power draw than the CM4 so a new boost regulator which can handle the current would be required I would think. Otherwise most of the other things would work, except for the second HDMI channel attached to HDMI...

I thought I'd share some progress on the final touches to the Retro Lite CM4 - a small little accessory, if you will! I always thought it would be pretty cool to integrate an OLED display into a docking station that gave you relevant information about the game/consoles you could potentially...

Not to rain on your parade, but what width are those traces? For carrying up to transients and load currents of 2A like the Wii draws, I would be very surprised if the regulator board functions at all. You should use the polygon tool in your CAD program to make voltage and ground input/output...

Hi, we don't have any updates really. Until parts become readily available, we wouldn't consider making this available for public sale. When the chip shortage will get better, no one really knows, but hopefully it will be before the end of the year. Sorry to not bring better news!

A lot of the code is proprietary and copyrighted. Hence, it's probably why it hasn't been shared publicly. I would message BocuD directly if you want assistance with the firmware.

Potential cooling setup! Still haven't figured out where the batteries are going :rothink: Most likely in the grips again

Yes, though, I plan on integrating my own regulators and such into the PCB, so it won’t be from the 4 Layer Tech store (unless I run out of time and I need to use one from them lol)

After playing through the GoW series, I've been inspired to try my hand at a PS2 portable. Very early days in development, but I plan on hopefully entering the contest this year (or at least using this as an excuse to get back into console portablizing after building Pi's...). Still have a lot...