Some of my PCBs arrived in Rev. 2 and everything is going along nicely. Even tho i managed to mess up the DPad-PCB in Rev. 2.. so i'll just fix it by hand.
Having a "bottom connection" PCB is also really handy. Makes it simple to solder & separate the mainboard from everything else...
One of my favorite part are these buttons by panasonic. I basically used them in all of my portables since the WooDii because they are smol & have a nice semi-tactile feeling at 1.6N. You can get the CAD file from panasonics website, too...
What an exiting day! Totally unexpected my JLCPCB order arrived & i couldn't wait to put everything together.. but see yourself:
Needless to say, it's looking very promising so far <3 except for the long cable being a little bit too long xD...
The NPC is working and doing it's thing incl...
alright folks, so quite a few things happened the last couple of days.. On the weekend i did some work on Aurelios greatest nightmare.. A little microcontroller project called "NPC" [Nold's Portable Coprocessor xD] which i hopefully get figured out.. at least i2c communication works.. kind of...
I would recommend getting stranded wire for power & cleaning up those solderjoints e.g. using flux.
Remove all components you cut through [not sure if there are any on the top right except the big golden one]
And hopefully the cuts at the LDO don't short anything. Did you check all resistances...
Make custom PCBs they said.. it will be FUN they said...
i placed the components on the wrong side first.. but at least it fits now.. Still a far way to go.. but if everything works out, this will be my first portable using custom PCBs - so fingers crossed!
also need to swap out the...
Board is trimmed & booting. Also already did some CAD stuff.. nothing fancy yet.
To do something aside from CAD i soldered the USB wires, so i can verify it's working, too. I really enjoy working under the microscope ^^
Building the GCiiPocket was really fun & i still love it. But I decided to redo the whole GCiiPocket design from scratch. So it will be bigger & better.
//Edit: It's done - https://bitbuilt.net/forums/index.php?threads/gc2go-summer-competition-2021.4554/
Here are some of the legacy Bitbuilt custom PCB. If a PCB is not listed here, you can probably find it's documentation here: https://bitbuilt.net/forums/index.php?forums/bitbuilt-products.151/
RVL Power Management System (PMS)
The RVL Power Management System is an all in one custom power...