Public Pervert's First GC Portable, the PlayCube Pocket

[public-pervert]

Yes, i'm inspired by Ashen's Fusion Micro.

Screen

Screen thickness. Those big black squares is just a tipe of double sided tape.

Buttons i'm using

Button thickness

Fan

Fan thickness

Psp case

Printed a little circuit board for the buttons

Buttons soldered to

Buttons board thickness

Made a hole for the C Stick

Buttons soldered and super-glued to the LCD body

Controller board

And after bouth 3 cubes, the 4° one was finnally ipl compatible, and the better for me is that the menu is in portuguese! i'll show the menu later. A pic of swiss showing the IPL

CNC routing the fan hole on the stock heatsink

Things going mounted on the front case

And a fast teaser cause i was delayed to the job :B

Period, that's all folks

 

[Ashen]

Re: Public Pervert's First Gamecube Portable.

Dang dude, that looks absolutely sick so far. Nice job with the buttons. Only thing I'd suggest is to see if you can somehow manage to squeeze in 3DS sliders instead. The PSP sliders work, but they're not quite on par as far as range goes. If you can somehow manage to cram some 3DS sticks in, I'd love to know how you manage.

Where did you get that LCD? I've ordered a ton of different 4.3" screens looking for one with a small driverboard like that. Would you mind sharing the link where you bought it?

Awesome!

BTW, its only NTSC IPL v1.0 board that dont work. ALL PAL board will work with the Wiikey Fusion, even PAL IPL v1.0

 

[Diminuendo]

Public Pervert's First Gamecube Portable.

Wow, how did you go about CNCing that heatsink?

 

[public-pervert]

Re: Public Pervert's First Gamecube Portable.

sure ashen! this is the screen i bought http://www.dealextreme.com/p/et-430-4-3 ... v-dc-47973

sadly, i bought the psp sliders before read your comments about it. aswell i want to ask you what is the exacly voltage you input into and the resistance values you used. a schematic would be wonderfull

@Diminuendo, i have one on my job and my boss was really happy to leave me use it for a project like that

EDIT: yea! i was surprised when i see its a Pal cube, cause Brazil is a NTSC country, and the cubes i've bought before was all NTSC 1.0

 

[Basement_Modder]

Re: Public Pervert's First Gamecube Portable.

Dude, you're like one of those new guys that come along with a weird SN that everybody assumes is a n00b to the 9001st degree until they make a build thread and blow us all the *Can'tSayThisOnTV* away.

You have joined the ranks of brunoip and daftmike.

 

[unicycler17]

Re: Public Pervert's First Gamecube Portable.

You skate!

This gcp is going to be among the greatest. Truly outstanding and professional work. I remember that Laser 64 you made too, and if this looks half as good as that did, it will be unimaginably amazing.

 

[ShockSlayer]

Re: Public Pervert's First Gamecube Portable.

Oh Dang!

.O.

 

[SonyQrio]

Re: Public Pervert's First Gamecube Portable.

Wow, that looks reallly awesome! I CAN'T WAIT FOR MORE PROGRESS!

Do you think that you'll have to put a spacer in like Ashen?

 

[public-pervert]

Re: Public Pervert's First Gamecube Portable.

thanks for the positive comments guys!
i'm in love for this portable and i'm doing my best!

and yes, a spacer will be needed, maybe 1cm.

 

[S5114]

Re: Public Pervert's First Gamecube Portable.

Beautiful work! Nice printed circuit boards too

 

[Seren]

Re: Public Pervert's First Gamecube Portable.

At first, I was like:

But after printed circuit boards I was like:

 

[ttsgeb]

Re: Public Pervert's First Gamecube Portable.

^Basically how I felt.

Started out thinking "Oh God, this is going to be a mess"

Then the printed circuit boards...

Then the CNC Machine.

Now I'm scared for other reasons.

You should do something cool with the paint on the circuit boards, just for the Heck of it.
Make each of them a or something.

 

[public-pervert]

Re: Public Pervert's First Gamecube Portable.

Bump!
I'm actually doesn't have much free time, but did some progress.

Resuming:

I was OMGWTFcutted the GC board, wired everything (power, video, controller transistor, memory card, gecko, and WKF). All was working perfectly, WKF was working every single time i'd pushed the switch. and then acidentally i've shorted the 1v9 to ground. All stops. No video and audio anymore. i spended so many time for several days tryng to get it to work and nothing, so i leaved this board and ordered another one. OK, new board is in hands and i already OMGWTFcutted it again and tested. Is working! Now its time to wire everything again and make it happen. Forgot to mention, the controller board are all wired too, but still fighting with those PSP sliders

Some crap iphone pics for now..

controller board wired

that is the first board

old board with everything wired

this is the new board..

another view

EDIT: I'm still able to buy the custom regulators. if someone have some spare, i'm interested

 

[public-pervert]

Re: Public Pervert's First Gamecube Portable.

Pic is kind of blury, but here is all of my progress.
Controller transistor relocated, memory card, Wiikey Fusion and SD Gecko (via microSD) wired directly to the vias and finally working. I've had video issues and spended lots of time poking around it, but is pretty fixed too.

 

[blue_stalfos]

Re: Public Pervert's First Gamecube Portable.

Really nice work so far
How did you get the SD card reader to stay on the GC Mobo?

 

[public-pervert]

Re: Public Pervert's First Gamecube Portable.

i didn't really understood your question. Are you meaning how the WKF SD reader are fixed on the mobo? This is just double faced tape and are not definetely in place, just for tests

 

[blue_stalfos]

Re: Public Pervert's First Gamecube Portable.

Yea, that's what I meant. I'm trying to mount my SD Gecko on the GC

 

[MoRZiLLo]

Re: Public Pervert's First Gamecube Portable.

Amazing!!!!!!
Can wait to view this "creature" born.

Like pics....more pics!!!!!!

Good Work man!

 

[public-pervert]

Re: Public Pervert's First Gamecube Portable.

Thanks man!

Right now i'm working on another project and beeing busy since there's a new skatepark on my town. So this project is on hold.

I'll be working here again very soon

 

[MoRZiLLo]

Re: Public Pervert's First Gamecube Portable.

Don't worry man! Don't be hurry.
We are waiting still here.

All people have life out here