Recent content by thedrew

Yes! This is hot. Been wanting to make a portable with slide mechanism, excited to see how you implement everything. This place sells just the hinge alone so you don't have to buy a whole housing kit. Only a few left apparently...

Been wanting to try this for ages! May jump in on this as well. ULTRAOMEGA™

@ohkin86 has done injection molding with the Wii U shell, maybe he might have more information on the process/cost.

Awesome work!!! Yeah I agree, bit of a pain to swap the QLED backlight to an IPS screen. I think the easier option would probably be to 3D print a spacer to compensate for the size difference of the panels. But it is pretty expensive to have to buy a QLED screen AND an IPS screen. Loving this...

I guess I was thrown off since I don't see the via hole!

That paste job looks fantastic! I've never done BGA that way, was always nervous of shorts lol. I've always reballed the BGA and lightly tinned the BGA pads on the board itself, quick reflow and voilà! What kind of vias are those?

Amazing work! With stacked PCBs these days, we have extra room for batteries. And with undervolting as well, the battery life extension is beyond what we ever believed possible!

This is Rev 2, not too much has changed physically but I corrected everything that should make it boot and it still doesn’t. I’m a little confused but will figure it out. Still learning and growing in this process. The next step is to create a flex to relocate the RAM and jumper pack on a...

I love how you put different routed footprints such as the BIOS chip and video DAC. Great idea!

Love all the 3D modeling! I don't have the patience for that myself lol

Yes you're right, the AliExpress link you posted is the same seller of the link I posted, just on AliExpress. Also won't solve the dithering issue you mentioned but the colors would be popping as well as a slight increase in contrast!

So I suspect it is not actually turning on except for the led indicator and fan as the disc would still spin and all with the lid shut if it was actually working but had no video. Sounds like a more than just video. I would probe the voltage points in the guide I linked and go from there.

I've had that issue more than once... I've never been able to solve it as it is usually an intermittent issue. Hopefully a new screen/driver board solves this for you

You can refer to the PS2 7900X trim guide for where to probe to check various things including voltages: https://bitbuilt.net/forums/index.php?threads/the-definitive-ps2-trimming-guide.1841/ How are you hooking up the PS2 to your display? Composite? And does a disk spin and seem like it is...

Awesome project! I'd definitely recommend hall sticks :D Same dimensions as switch sticks so no need to change your cad and work with the GC+ https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256806153525091.html