Re: YAP64: XCVG's N64p Project
Quite a bit of progress in the last while. It's spring break here right now. Anyway, I'm not really motivated until I start working, so I haven't done as much as I would have liked. Mostly, I've been doing some casework on the front of the case. I've also trimmed the board some more. I used scissors, a knife, and diagonal cutters. I would like someone to tell me a better way to do it because I almost trashed the board with said technique. Anyway...
This here is the overall plan for YAP64. It's horrendously out of scale and does not accurately convey how tight things are going to be. Anyway, let's start with the top. You have the power switches, some vents, and then the volume knob, which I will have to trim down some. The headphone jack will either be there by the volume knob or on the bottom of the portable. On the front we have all the buttons, dpad, twin sticks, and FPS mode switch. Speaker grills too. And of course the 3.5" screen (thanks Palmer!). On the back is the huge lump of course. Unfortuantely due to the size and shape of the battery protection circuit, the fan will have to go on the back of the portable. It'll look awful and make setting the thing down a nightmare but it should work. And yes it is necessary; airflow in YAP64 is going to be a disaster. There will be vents on top and on the bottom, through the case into the lump, and then the fan will suck it out. Great in theory, the only problem is that there will be a lot of crap in the way. Of course I have the DualShock shoulder buttons there too. Twin Z buttons, L and R. Also on the back is one potential location for the power jack. It will either go there or underneath. Probably underneath, actually. Also underneath is the DB-15 dock port and that's about it. I still don't know where the power LED will go. I want to use a blue one but they aren't fun to look directly into. Maybe I'll do some sort of glow-strip thing? Nah, probably put it on the front, sand it and use a big resistor.
This is what I've gotten done so far on the front of the case. All the frankencase stuff has been ABS cemented in. I still have to cut some holes for switches and such, and clean up behind the things for board clearance and such. It needs some more bondo, then it'll be pretty much done. I'll get some paint eventually, flat black Krylon Fusion. On a side note, should I wear a mask when I sand this stuff? I sometimes do and sometimes don't. Yeah, funny coming from the guy who wears big thick gloves when using liquid ABS.
In this mess you can see the ghetto audio amp, screen, and lightly trimmed N64 board. I actually cut around the power connections and AV port so I don't have to do any rewiring. I know, lazy. I still have to relocate the cary slot, but I think I have to do that in place, unless I cut a huge hole in the back of the case. That is one part of this mod that scares me. I always hear about slot relocations not working and things like that.
Anyone know of a good imagehost? I've been using my Wordpress blog, and I'm pretty sure it violates their terms of service.
