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Looking good! Can't wait to see the updates to the case design when you get up to it!

Try the wii section on the forum, plenty of people doing stuff other than Gboys!

Somehow missed this, sorry! I've looked into the lattepanda and the relatively small performance increase really isn't worth the massive initial outlay for me unfortunately. So for anyone watching at home considering building something like this, I've found a fix for the full screen issues I...

I reckon you're definitely better off with something that works, even if it's not exactly what you hoped for initially!

I'll second that vote. Just make the case a little bigger and jam a TP4056 in the bottom and call it done! You can always revise your board after the competition is done!

@YveltalGriffin now I wish I'd known that was possible when I started my project! This certainly isn't something that's well documented. When I looked into it I was only able to find people using the proprietary raspberry pi screen with that output. I've been considering a complete overhaul of...

I googled that iron, and it looks like a decent enough unit. Can't give you advice on where to find tips but I can tell you I used a 0.5mm tip on mine for this job. And fair enough on the dsi port, I was pretty sure the spacing on the ribbon cable was 0.5mm like the HDMI, but maybe they...

The pins on the dsi connector are the same spacing as the HDMI I thought, so it's probably of a similar difficulty. And yes, I added leaded solder to help get the heat into the components but I still struggled. As for the difficulty of soldering small things, I do have a fair bit of experience...

I usually download any that I can from grabcad and import them. Anything I can't find I measure and draw up myself. You need to watch it though, the model of the psp joystick I downloaded (and designed the case around) wasn't all that accurate so the mounting holes weren't in quite the right...

For what it's worth, I really struggled getting some of the ports off the pi 3 I did. The ground plane on the PCB must be massive because it just kept sucking the heat out of my soldering iron. I ended up attacking mine with a Dremel carefully to break the tabs that hold the ports into the...

I'm still watching marketplace for an appropriate used Wii so it'll happen one day. May take a break from the massive projects for a little bit though, got some loose ends to tie up on some previous projects before I undertake anything else massive like this again. Still, if I find a more...

The atom processor runs so cool that even without a heatsink I haven't been able to make it thermal throttle. It has a small heat spreader on it behind the holes in the back cover, that appears to be all it needs.

Submission video complete!

No worries, none of it is a secret so happy to share pictures of anything I have forgotten to show. I used individual WS2812 LED's soldered to the controller PCB. I've only got one LED on either side of the joystick surrounds as I just didn't have enough room for any more than that. I may get...

Yeah they are addressable RGB lights (much like what you'll find on high end PC gaming components) which are controlled by the Arduino that is built into the controller PCB. Windows is then sending battery information to the Arduino over the USB port so it can correctly colour the led to...

Got the battery management issue sorted a few days ago. This little app is controlling the LED behind the mode button so I now have a battery status without windows needing to know an actual battery percentage. I'm pretty much done now, just slowly working on a video for the final submission...

Thanks mate!

Good tip! I tried tape but as you can see, it didn't work all that well. I need to pull the touchscreen back out and paint under it black anyway so I'll give that a go while I've got it out.

Thanks, honestly it's made me re-think the way I design things too. Funnily enough, the shoulder buttons are what I was stuck on for the longest amount of time during the design phase. I completely redesigned the outer shape of the housing about 5 times in the process and I still ended up with a...

Trigger buttons finally sorted! Not much left on the list of stuff to complete now!