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Well it's been a long time since my last update. I've been busy pulling my hair out over the PS2 USB and wondering why I couldn't get a simple 27mm extension to work with it. *Note: No fluffy in this post. He keeps eating things he can't hope to digest so I've now got to cover my work area with...

As one last ditch effort I tried to copy the wiring that GMan had from his RaspberryPi through to the PS2 (assuming that the Ethernet pinout was straight-through to pins 1,2,3&6) but didn't get any chatter when I did that, and ye olde 310 for my efforts. So my final conclusion is that the...

Quick update: Wiring some 33nF caps between the ethernet transformer and the PS2 resulted in no chatter or any read. Not that I'm sure of my soldering mind as my test board is getting pretty beat up at this stage. My guess is that there's just too much noise, or it's simply too far away but if...

Well this has been a fun 24 hours, but I'm finally getting answers. Remember the only difference between screwing around and science is writing it down. So I broke everything down into a collection of paired experiments and to save boring you all to death my breakdown is happening because the...

Whelp, this is a "help" post as it's just not fun anymore. I've burnt a week trying to get the OrangePi to communicate to the PS2 through the ethernet and while all the indicators suggest that it should be working, it's just not. Amusingly as it turned out if the OrangePi was hard-shutdown...

I did look at using Fusion or Solidworks but my fear is that I'll not have enough time to undergo a learning curve in time to complete this for the competition. I've got professional experience with the other software suites so might end up struggling through with them. Although apparently...

Minor update, but it's taken a lot of cobbling things together to get to this point. While I've been frowning over getting this OrangePi to behave (turns out I didn't clone the boot sector information on the armbian image and thus didn't actually have a backup when it failed) I've also been...

Actually some PS2 controllers had a rocker under the dPad that clipped onto the bottom of it, but I'm sure you'll come up with something that works - it's looking super sharp!

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I didn't realise yours was 8" also! Long live the huge builds! I do have a couple of other screens here but when tinkering and testing I concluded that a screen that large is a true pleasure, plus with a 4:3 ratio I don't have to mod any of the games to get the aspect ratio correct. My logic...

So aside from the small nightmare that I've been having getting that USB port to work, I have been designing the case. By and large the unit so far has been a "minimum approach" but after stumbling across a few items around the office and having a drink with a few mates I think I finally got...

Need a little help here. While I'm waiting to crash out of the competition for things to arrive, I decided to do a few more tests and start linking a couple of other things up. I've discovered that it can't see any attached USB device :( So wiring a USB is pretty straightforward but testing the...

You just don't want me to vote for this! lol

Airflow helps dry enamel - I should have mentioned that in my above post. Airflow also gets lots of dust in your finish ;) Damn your project is shaping up to be something truly exceptional!

Before you do strip everything back: Enamel really needs the better part of a week to "bake off" and at that point it usually becomes really hard and durable and consistently has a finish as described on the box. We've still got time in the competition so you might want to wait a little to get...

So I spent about a day poking things with a soldering iron and going through all the tests I had planned during assembly. I started to get suspicious that something was terribly wrong just after lunch time because none of the tests had failed so far (and if you're a programmer you know that...

So it's been a while up my neck of the woods with a few things I didn't consider coming to play. The first is that I sunk a mounting post through the PS2 so will have to run some power lines for the USB port (it's a prototype) and the second is that I forgot that the memory card had a crystal on...

I can't seem to add photos to the prior post. I went about trimming today and had a bit of a whoopsie, but it'd seem that it wasn't in an essential place so I don't have to find another PS2...yet

Fun day setting up the screen control! TLDR: Fluffy isn't in this post ;) Turns out some of the guides on which direction the SMD caps should go are mildly misleading, and this is important if you've a basic little low-pass smoothing filter for a screen signal. I eventually asked a friend for...

Sorry about that! As it turns out my videos weren't even published! I'm sure after all this waiting and anticipation you'll be disappointed with what's really just a few short videos!