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I am dusting off (literally) this project and going to try and finish her off. *Insert excuses about real life here* Going back over my wiring I quickly found the root of the problem with voltage drop stopping the GDemu from working properly. It's now 100% working off li-ions (see pic), and it...

Fun idea! If you wanted to save more space on the face of the console you could use compact 4/5 way tact switches (for d-pad, screen/volume controls and even a-b-x-y). Kapton tape is the shit. You will love it once you start using it.

My experience with the regulators ultimasnake has linked: If they're the same ones (they look the same) then over 1A they need a heatsink, and 2A is their maximum *constant* amperage. So they are only good for certain low amperage applications in portables (many of the TI regulators are good...

Nice! That's great info! I have decided against painting the buttons, replacements in various colours are available really cheap, so I don't think it's worth it. I'm gonna leave her as is for now, and if I place another order from the Chinese seller I'll pick up a set of black buttons and go...

Yeah, I'll do it right. The start and select buttons are rubber, so I'll have to leave them grey. Thanks, I'm slightly regretting not getting the translucent blue case. I had wanted white, but I couldn't find it amongst all the replacement cases available. I've previously only repaired DMG's...

My girlfriend's away on a trip, so got a good chunk of a mini-project done this afternoon. Ingredients: - Used "not working" GBA - Backlit screen - Glass lens - New case - Li-poly battery - USB charging circuit The GBA was sold as not working, but it was only the screen and buttons that...

Epic. Love the way he used original ports when possible and modular wiring.

Cool, cheers for letting me know. All I need is Excel running solidly (i.e. natively) and the latest Chrome build, sounds like 7 is my least worst option. Thanks!

For me my main gripe with Windows 10 is wasting system resources and all the bloatware you can't uninstall. It runs relatively slow on my work laptop (only have 2 gig of RAM to play with) and arrived pre-installed full of programs I will never use and can't get rid of. I need excel with...

Hating Windows 10 right now. I use it every day in work and every day I have more and more urges to drown kittens... XP is the least worst Windows for me. The girlfriend recently moved to linux mint, but before used plain ubuntu. Mint seems nice and clean to me.

I have most of the provisional wiring done, but haven't even started the case, so I won't be entering the contest! I'll move the thread to the normal worklog area if I can figure out how. Thanks to bitbuilt for putting on the contest though, great idea I'm sorry I didn't get my act together in...

Wow. Beautiful. Love the clean look, and the fact it's a DMG. All so nicely finished, I love seeing clean internals and neat layouts.

Between connecting up another pair of 18650's and fatter wires I found 0.1v, but the GDemu still wasn't playing nice. I ended up doing a 4-resistor deadbug special to nudge up the voltage on the regulator as I don't have the right values. Didn't take a photo before smothering it lovingly in...

Cool, I'll check it out tommorow. I just used the 100 uf caps which I had as I saw that figure in the datasheet, but looking again it does say it's the minimum. Thanks. The battery holder has really puny wires which I need to replace as they won't be helping matters. Will be putting more...

Wired up the 5v with another TI reg, and re-did the 3.3v line smaller. Now have the console running off batteries! The GDemu is playing up and won't read SD cards. I hope it's down to the voltage drop as the 3.3v line drops below 3 under load; will investigate tomorrow...

Cheers. Yeah, my instinct says not to trust them. Will find another TI reg, thanks for the input. Thanks. I hope so, but we have to see if I can pull off a decent case!

Work is balls at the moment, but I found some time to do a little pad-hacking. (And realised I forgot to put a name tag in the previous pics, so will remember to do that from now on.) Have been working with a massive 6pdt switch to replace the analog and d-pad with just the slider, and having...

Nice! That screen looks sharp! Love the battery indicator too.

Wiring two 7.4v packs in parallel sounds like an ideal solution, just as shown in that (ugly!) diagram. It would double the amperage yes. @Noah @Luke Maybe it's a bit far-fetched, but you could make up a set of standardised BitBuilt symbols (with templates etc.) And anyone making wiring...

It is about whether you use a battery pack, or seperate cells. Any li-ion pack (a group of battery cells connected together in series and/or parallel) should have a PCM providing safety as well as combining the voltage and/or current. Camcorder batteries will always have a PCM built in as...