Hello. New to the boards here and first time I've taken any kind of electronic project like this on. Any and all help/suggestions are welcome.
Started looking through all the builds and decided to give it a go.
Parts list:
DMG case, KeDei HDMI screen, tactile buttons, powerboost 1000c, button pcb from Kitsch-Bent, power strip from Helder (not sure how to mention people...), button wells and screen bracket from wermy, and a screen protector from Dominator. The remaining items are your regular fair that are in every build.
Got a large order from Amazon and started the modding.
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Had to remove a few things from the screen for it to fit.
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Not a great photo, but had to trim the edges of the PCB off to fit in the case (bye bye touch screen!)
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Still works!
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Soldered up the PCB next. Plan is to use a GPIO setup.
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I later swapped out the red/yellow buttons. They came from a Chinese SNES controller and were too sloppy... as you will find out at some point in this build, I am very particular of my neat-ness and plan to make the best looking wire runs possible.
Put the screen back in at this point. I pulled out the testing pin at the top of the screen and soldered in a new wire lead instead.
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Added the screen bracket from wermy in there. The screen is too tall though, had to modify the bracket (wermy don't look!!)
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And that is the current progress...
Few thing I have questions about. I got a nice temp controlled Weller iron, however am having trouble keeping the tip clean and it wont hold solder on it. I have the sponge that I clean it with after every pass. Do I need to get one of those brass scour pad deals?
Going to attempt to put up my wiring guide. What does everyone use to draw them? Just MS Paint?
Thanks for looking. Any input is welcome!