Sprocket64 Worklog. FINISHED. See page 27.

[Mario]

Re: Sprocket64 Worklog. Now with 157% less abandonment!

Okay, I decided I really do not like all the visible scratches. I will apply another coat of paint tomorrow and see if it helps.

EDIT: Since I am bringing this thing to ComiCon, I will have to include an LOB64 port. I will kick everybody's butt at Mario Kart!

 

[Nintendott]

Re: Sprocket64 Worklog. Now with 157% less abandonment!

Right now you have posted 666 posts. Heck.

 

[hailrazer]

Re: Sprocket64 Worklog. Now with 157% less abandonment!

Okay, I decided I really do not like all the visible scratches. I will apply another coat of paint tomorrow and see if it helps.

EDIT: Since I am bringing this thing to ComiCon, I will have to include an LOB64 port. I will kick everybody's butt at Mario Kart!

Sure you know this but sand with 400, then 800, then 2000 for the perfect smoothy smooth.

 

[ShockSlayer]

Re: Sprocket64 Worklog. Now with 157% less abandonment!

hailrazer makes good smoothies.

SS

 

[Mario]

Re: Sprocket64 Worklog. Now with 157% less abandonment!

Nintendott: Meh, who cares?

Hailrazer: I've only got 400 sandpaper. Beta advised me to wetsand all the paint off, then paint it again. I did that, and it looks a lot better, but you can still see some small scratches. It's not very bad anymore, so I'm okay with it. I'll put on another coat in 6-8 hours and see how that helps.

 

[βeta]

Re: Sprocket64 Worklog. Now with 157% less abandonment!

Glad it worked for ya. Did you make your scratches uniform at least?

 

[Mario]

Re: Sprocket64 Worklog. Now with 157% less abandonment!

I was sanding in one direction the whole time, but some of the scratches from the 150 grit sandpaper are still faintly there. It's not too noticeable, and it does look much better. Another coat of paint will help, too.

 

[βeta]

Re: Sprocket64 Worklog. Now with 157% less abandonment!

Kay kay.

 

[Nintendott]

Re: Sprocket64 Worklog. Now with 157% less abandonment!

Are you going to varnish it ?

 

[hailrazer]

Re: Sprocket64 Worklog. Now with 157% less abandonment!

Circular sanding for the win.

Back and forth sanding is for wood with grain. For sanding smooth surfaces you want to do circular sanding.

And you can find higher grit sandpaper at Wal-mart in the Automotive section for less than $5

 

[Mario]

Re: Sprocket64 Worklog. Now with 157% less abandonment!

No, Nintendott.

Hail, I did use circular sanding. I always do. But yeah, my sandpaper was not adequate. I should buy some more.

Here's what I'm doing for the power button. It is translucent and has two SMD led's glued being it - one red, one white. (It's actually the power light thing from an SNES.) It sits on top of a tact switch, which switches Daftmike's power flip-flop on and off. It has a low battery indicator that switches the two LED's.

Lots of pictures!
One of the surface mount LED's I'm using for the power button:

After wires being soldered to it, proving it works.

I'm using Daftmike's low battery indicator for this portable. You can see the LED's glued to the power button.

Screwposts glued in the case:

Circuit screwed in:

Showing the white LED (okay battery):

Red LED (low battery):

Screen glued in, showing 16:9:

4:

Joystick with screwposts screwed on, waiting to be glued:

Joystick and screen in, looking very sexy.

Insides so far. The loose board in the middle is the brightness/color controls for the screen.

 

[βeta]

Re: Sprocket64 Worklog. Now with 157% less abandonment!

This looks a lot bigger inside than it does outside.

 

[ShockSlayer]

Re: Sprocket64 Worklog. Now with 157% less abandonment!

So hawt.

Snowpenguin: Better than hentai!

SS

 

[ToastBucket]

Re: Sprocket64 Worklog. Now with 157% less abandonment!

Which screen is that?

 

[Nintendott]

Re: Sprocket64 Worklog. Now with 157% less abandonment!

Very .
Are you using the 77USD screen from DealXtreme?


SS: Hentai is

 

[bentomo]

Re: Sprocket64 Worklog. Now with 157% less abandonment!

This looks so awesome! I love the low led power button.

 

[Basement_Modder]

Re: Sprocket64 Worklog. Now with 157% less abandonment!

Funny, I actually was going to do that exact thing with the power button on the micro 64, but never thought to put both the circuits on one pcb, and was going to use a green smt led instead of white.

Looks good. I want that screen.

 

[Thursty]

Re: Sprocket64 Worklog. Now with 157% less abandonment!

Wow this is looking Amazing, It makes me want to start a new N64 portable!

 

[XCVG]

Re: Sprocket64 Worklog. Now with 157% less abandonment!

That's pretty epic. But what's the point of screwposts if they're hotglued in. Also, I think you just solved my joystick mounting problem. Now if only I could find my perfboard.

 

[ShockSlayer]

Re: Sprocket64 Worklog. Now with 157% less abandonment!

How did you/are you going to attach those screw posts? I can never figure that out, I usually end up making strange contraptions holding my joystick in.

Also, those batteries. I have a good pack and a pack that has no mobo, because the mobo fried. think I could wire the two extra cells in parallel and get it work and charge?

SS