Avery
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After getting hooked on the ideas of portables at the very end of 2019 and early 2020, I eventually dove head first into the process and fried a PMS, somehow broke a Wii as Pickles couldn't fix it, and as I just recently found out, fried a PMS-2 but we'll get to that later.
What are my goals with this project?
My progress so far:
About two days ago, I disassembled a Wii, had a very shoddy trim, and prayed that I didn't botch it this early on
Right now there are two problems, but one is much more obvious than the other. That being the last picture. Fortunately for me, I would lose nothing if I just went crazy sanding it so that's what I did
Now as for the other problem, that one was much less obvious to me but INSTANTLY caught the eyes of other modders in the discord, the Nand lines, unfortunately, I severed two of the traces from the Nand so I had to find their corresponding Vias which didn't go too poorly even though I thought I was completely screwed.
(I'm aware the picture isn't great and it looks like I've bridged two pins, however I checked and they are fortunately not bridged)
After all that I wired everything up to my PMS-2 with an 18650 battery and... no video output and HOLY SHIT THE PMS IS HOT AS HELL
yes the blue wire on ground is meant to be there, I just ran out of black wire, and the picture was taken after disconnecting the battery
Thankfully, Gunnar helped me identify that the BQ IC was fried so I've now ordered a replacement, and I'm really hopeful that there are no other issues with the PMS besides that one chip, because then I'll actually be able to know if my Wii works
My short term plans and some questions:
So when my BQ IC comes in, in about a day or two, I'm going to put that on and try that out, but also I'm realizing I probably need to restock/get new materials to continue this project. As previously mentioned I need more black wire to signify ground, and I likely need to just completely restock everything going on with soldering. I've realized that I need a secondary color of magnet wire so I can twist them together, especially since I need to have an actually shielded connection for my composite out next time, and the only flux I have is like some paste thing? It's some old rosin flux and everyone else seems to use a liquid version which is almost certainly better. I think I have enough solder to survive the whole project but besides that I wouldn't be opposed to getting new of everything. And finally, I'm not sure if I really need to replace this but I only have the default tip for my Hakko FX-888d so I'm not sure if having a big wedge is ideal for a project like this but so far I've survived but if you guys recommend anything else I'm all ears.
All that to say, what do you guys recommend? That would probably set me straight much better than me picking my own materials so if you have any recommendations that would be appreciated, also any advice regarding the portable is very much appreciated.
What are my goals with this project?
- Right now, it's basically just to make a Louii that survives the hands of the unintentional blood god that is me
- As for relocations, I want to do an MX relocation and a Bluetooth relocation on my own and possibly later down the line get some help with a WiFi relocation for Mario Kart WiimFi
- I'm not set on the design, however I do have some Louii style switch buttons from Madmorda so I'll likely do something Blue, although I don't know about material or artwork as of now
My progress so far:
About two days ago, I disassembled a Wii, had a very shoddy trim, and prayed that I didn't botch it this early on
Right now there are two problems, but one is much more obvious than the other. That being the last picture. Fortunately for me, I would lose nothing if I just went crazy sanding it so that's what I did
Now as for the other problem, that one was much less obvious to me but INSTANTLY caught the eyes of other modders in the discord, the Nand lines, unfortunately, I severed two of the traces from the Nand so I had to find their corresponding Vias which didn't go too poorly even though I thought I was completely screwed.
(I'm aware the picture isn't great and it looks like I've bridged two pins, however I checked and they are fortunately not bridged)
After all that I wired everything up to my PMS-2 with an 18650 battery and... no video output and HOLY SHIT THE PMS IS HOT AS HELL
yes the blue wire on ground is meant to be there, I just ran out of black wire, and the picture was taken after disconnecting the battery
Thankfully, Gunnar helped me identify that the BQ IC was fried so I've now ordered a replacement, and I'm really hopeful that there are no other issues with the PMS besides that one chip, because then I'll actually be able to know if my Wii works
My short term plans and some questions:
So when my BQ IC comes in, in about a day or two, I'm going to put that on and try that out, but also I'm realizing I probably need to restock/get new materials to continue this project. As previously mentioned I need more black wire to signify ground, and I likely need to just completely restock everything going on with soldering. I've realized that I need a secondary color of magnet wire so I can twist them together, especially since I need to have an actually shielded connection for my composite out next time, and the only flux I have is like some paste thing? It's some old rosin flux and everyone else seems to use a liquid version which is almost certainly better. I think I have enough solder to survive the whole project but besides that I wouldn't be opposed to getting new of everything. And finally, I'm not sure if I really need to replace this but I only have the default tip for my Hakko FX-888d so I'm not sure if having a big wedge is ideal for a project like this but so far I've survived but if you guys recommend anything else I'm all ears.
All that to say, what do you guys recommend? That would probably set me straight much better than me picking my own materials so if you have any recommendations that would be appreciated, also any advice regarding the portable is very much appreciated.