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Oshpark flexes are thicc but I think will work great on this board

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Wundervolt (/vʊndɐvo:lt/) While waiting for my Short Stack boards to arrive, I’ve been working on the idea of building a teeny tiny power supply board with software programmable voltage rails to allow for software Wii undervolting. Thus wundervolt (pronounced /vʊndɐvo:lt/) was born. Before...

Here’s the video I saw, but there are a couple of videos on the topic from ATS. “in reality when you epoxy a heatpipe into an assembly, the bond line is so thin, it really doesn’t make too much of a temperature difference even compared to solder” I love your project, have been following it...

This is really cool!! One of the major heatpipe manufacturers (ATS) has a series of videos on YouTube and I recall one of them saying that thermal epoxy is pretty comparable to solder for one offs/prototypes. Could help avoid any of the reactivity issues in future. How is the thermal...

A dense package arrived from my secret santa yesterday. I cracked it open to find a nice note from the venerable @cheese himself! In case you missed the meme, someone is selling 1,000 wii nunchucks on ebay for $2.5k, but I think that's outside secret santa budget. First up in the package...

Project Short Stack For the past 2 years I’ve been dreaming of building a “not so portable” with a stacked PCB design. Stacking a custom peripherals/power pcb, Wii motherboard, and heatplate reminded me of a stack of pancakes, hence “project short stack”. Requirements I wanted to have the...

This is disgusting. I love it.

For future travelers, I think I found the original U9/U10 IC - the Ablic S-80129CNMC-JKO. The JKO matches the part markings on the U9/U10, the pinout matches, and the timings and voltage thresholds line up with what we expect (2.9V, ~200ms). This is an obsolete part, but hopefully it helps...

I threw together a little case for a power supply for bench testing Wii trims, which combines a USB-C breakout with a RVL-PSU to provide 1V, 1.15V, 1.8V, 3.3V, and 5V power. A couple of people on Discord said they were interested in building something similar, so I figured I would share. The...

Well that would certainly explain it, I hadn't relocated the MX on my build! Thanks Wesk. Do you happen to know if any of the Hiidra/RVLoader MX patches help?

Awesome build! Curious to know if your wavebird is working flawlessly. I've had trouble getting wavebirds to work after trimming, I think some of the passives near the gamecube connector which get trimmed off are important for the wavebird receiver.

Here's a sneak peek from my NES Classic build.

Hey all, I've just open sourced my Wii motherboard breakout PCB in case anyone finds it helpful for their projects. I've found it to be useful for prototyping, or for permanent installation on Wii projects which are mounted with the CPU/GPU facing up (probably not most portables, since they are...

Amazing, nice work mokus! I feel like I was vaguely part of history here

My peripherals board arrived yesterday, here it is mounted to the mobo: And here it is populated: The bluetooth module is removably mounted to the same molex connector originally found on the Wii motherboard. The connector is a real pain in the ass to solder. Heres what it looks like with...

Thanks Gman, figured out how to use the uploader now, and fixed all the previous posts.

As I mentioned last time, one of the main reasons for me working on this project is to learn how to design and build simple PCBs. My build will consist of 3 custom PCBs: 1. Regulator PCB A super simple custom regulator PCB Uses the venerable PTH08080WAH power modules Powered by USB-C @ 5V...

Ok here's a big update! Case I found a "for parts" NES Classic on eBay for $10 delivered, the original PCB seems fried but the case and buttons are in perfect condition. The power button is a nice clicky latching switch, just like the original NES, and the reset switch is a little tact...