Worklog Playstation Soul

Wesk

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Playstation Soul PS1 portable

Features:


Mostly untrimmed PU-23 Motherboard
5" LCD
PSIO ODE
3000mah Lipo battery
PicoMemcard

Off-the-shelf 3.3v and 5v regs
$1 Audio amp
Slow asf USB-C Charging
Mono audio via stereo speakers
Big ass speakers for maximum distortion
Composite video for maximum distortion
No custom PCB's for maximum magnet wire


What's left to do?:

PSIO shit the bed somehow so currently the only game it plays is the award winning BIOS.

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Such a beautiful and densely packed unit! Your work really is inspirational Wesk! The screen to body ratio is INCREDIBLE and the thickness doesn't lie! Beautiful work as always man!
 

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I'm absolutely in love with what you came up with here, and I definitely have to build one! I think with some careful rearranging, you might be able to fit an extra one of those LiPo cells in, and definitely could slim the body a bit further by replacing those aluminum electrolytics with tantalums or large enough ceramics. Definitely gonna try to fit these changes in if I build one. :D
 

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A work of art as usual mate. Are you walking around with it on your shoulder like a boom box to take full advantage of those speakers?
 

Wesk

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I'm absolutely in love with what you came up with here, and I definitely have to build one! I think with some careful rearranging, you might be able to fit an extra one of those LiPo cells in, and definitely could slim the body a bit further by replacing those aluminum electrolytics with tantalums or large enough ceramics. Definitely gonna try to fit these changes in if I build one. :D
Unfortunately it's a lot easier said than done, this thing is crammed.

Between the battery mount and the passives/ribbon connector on the LCD is only about 3mm of space, and that was only added later when I found I didn't even have enough room to run my wires:
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And on the motherboard side of things, removing the electrolytic caps and replacing them with tants would only yield about 1.5mm of savings:

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And before I forget here's my pinout of the Motorola SC438001 chip used on the controller, there was no documentation anywhere online for this thing but there was for the other variants. Hopefully Google scrapes this so others are able to find it in the future:

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I don't think I'll be circling back to this build anytime soon (maybe after Kawaii release) so I'm releasing the full STEP of the Soul for the community to play around with and improve. With the release of the Pico 2 hopefully we should have a very cheap and simple way to RGB line double which will be a major boon to the build.

I've also included a 3mf of the printed parts into a single print bed, try print it all at once if you're game. Also everything has been designed to not need any supports because supports are for losers and stupid dumb idiots.

Dpad and buttons are keyed in a way that everything from PS1 to PS4 buttons should fit.

Files linked in OP.

BOM soon.
 
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