I've never used an Adafruit screen before but the first two things I'd check would be one the ribbon remains securely seated and two use a Multimeter to verify you're getting 5v to the screen board. The plastic bar breaking shouldn't be a big deal, I've had them pop off before but still snap back in...

I ran into this issue as well with my CS from last round, I just got it put together tonight, WIFI was working like a champ, did my configuration and copied some stuff over, it seemed like it froze up, I don't know exactly was i was up stairs, the UI wasn't responding and after a reboot my wifi was ...

It would give me a worth while reason to get a hit air rework station. My one regret when I ordered the boards was not getting a stencil. At the time though, I didn't have a hot air station, only a cruddy soldering iron. Since then I bought a 898D station that Wermy recommended in his video and man...

It would give me a worth while reason to get a hit air rework station.

The SMDs weren't to bad about $20 shipped from Digikey, screen was about $15, battery was about $10. It does add up pretty quick though with everything and mainly you are playing the waiting game for all of the parts. I've got a few other projects to work on but I do think I'd like to try populatin...

I remember the original populated board was $60 plus case, buttons etc. I dont think those are available anymore but there are blank round one and round two boards available on ebay so one could do the populating themselves. I have no idea what the individual parts cost though.

My 3 boys have CS-lite builds running off of 3500mah batteries that fit nicely in the full size DMG battery compartment, they easy get 6+ hours of play time, I tend to recharge theirs more frequently as they are younger and less apt to pay attention to a shrinking green bar. It isnt an exact compari...

Rodocop, thanks for the reply. That's really unfortunate to hear. I would love to do the work myself, only I don't have the tools as I'm away for university. I definitely want a GBP model. But I am starting to get the feeling that communication with Galaxy Gaming is not the greatest. The website is...

Double check your ribbon connection as well. Also if you didn't, I'd go thru the setup on Kite's wiki.

Looks good