dtparam=i2c_arm=off
#dtparam=i2s=on dtparam=spi=off
dtparam=audio=on
gpu_mem_256=128
gpu_mem_512=256
gpu_mem_1024=256
overscan_scale=1
# usb network #dtoverlay=dwc2 # enable the DPI display enable_dpi_lcd=1
display_default_lcd=1
# Set screen size and any overscan required overscan_left=0
overscan_right=0
overscan_top=0
overscan_bottom=0
framebuffer_width=480
framebuffer_height=272
# set up the size to 480x272 dpi_group=2
dpi_mode=87
# set up the hsync/vsync/clock polarity and format dpi_output_format=0x7F013
# set up the size to 480x272 hdmi_timings=480 0 40 48 88 272 0 13 3 32 0 0 0 60 0 9600000 3
dtparam=i2c_arm=off
#dtparam=i2s=on dtparam=spi=off
dtparam=audio=on
gpu_mem_256=128
gpu_mem_512=256
gpu_mem_1024=256
overscan_scale=1
# usb network #dtoverlay=dwc2 # enable the DPI display enable_dpi_lcd=1
display_default_lcd=1
# Set screen size and any overscan required overscan_left=0
overscan_right=0
overscan_top=0
overscan_bottom=0
framebuffer_width=480
framebuffer_height=272
# set up the size to 480x272 dpi_group=2
dpi_mode=87
# set up the hsync/vsync/clock polarity and format dpi_output_format=0x7F013
# set up the size to 480x272 hdmi_timings=480 0 40 48 88 272 0 13 3 32 0 0 0 60 0 9600000 3
FAME BOY | FAME BOY - build log 5 - Hack Like Heck
2018-04-22 12:24:58
I have spent waaaay too much time on the design so far and I'm only at 75% of finishing it. It seems like the parts will arrive this Friday, so it's going to be a long weekend. I've set up a "war zone" for the project, a "FAME BOY only" table of 100 x 60 cm2. Today the button boards arrived from aisler.net, with a bit of drilling and snipping some plastic posts I was able to fit almost everything but the shoulder buttons. I've ordered a set of buttons again, this time in black! Every part you see needs to be reprinted though, to fit the shoulder buttons. I have the shoulder button design ready, and the bottom parts are ready for a draft print as well. I will try to fit everything in and then com back to the design later, when everything is placed.
So back to the "war zone", I need to fix the Game Boy cartridge reader. It won't start with the program but in the bootloader mode and I need to find out what that was all about. Then I can come up with a way to alert the Raspberry PI that there is a cartridge present. I don't have any diodes on the button pcbs, something I now regret because it's going to be tough to just add the cartridge state as one of the buttons. Ghosting could get tricky.
FAME BOY | FAME BOY - build log 5 - Hack Like Heck
2018-04-22 12:24:58
I have spent waaaay too much time on the design so far and I'm only at 75% of finishing it. It seems like the parts will arrive this Friday, so it's going to be a long weekend. I've set up a "war zone" for the project, a "FAME BOY only" table of 100 x 60 cm2. Today the button boards arrived from aisler.net, with a bit of drilling and snipping some plastic posts I was able to fit almost everything but the shoulder buttons. I've ordered a set of buttons again, this time in black! Every part you see needs to be reprinted though, to fit the shoulder buttons. I have the shoulder button design ready, and the bottom parts are ready for a draft print as well. I will try to fit everything in and then com back to the design later, when everything is placed.
So back to the "war zone", I need to fix the Game Boy cartridge reader. It won't start with the program but in the bootloader mode and I need to find out what that was all about. Then I can come up with a way to alert the Raspberry PI that there is a cartridge present. I don't have any diodes on the button pcbs, something I now regret because it's going to be tough to just add the cartridge state as one of the buttons. Ghosting could get tricky.
FAME BOY | FAME BOY - build log 4 - Hack Like Heck
2018-04-22 12:23:38
What a perfect fit of colors, but sadly this PLA wont print on both of the companies Zortrax M200. There's an option to load external materials on the Zortrax M200 for a while now and I was too shy to test it out (Zortrax is closed gcode and was closed filament). Since I've printed with PLA on my 2014 printrbot simple already, I didn't think there could be too many problems though and so I did a little trip to 3dk.berlin, that was 4 metro stations away from home. Sadly the printer won't even load the filament and after asking around in the zortrax user group on facebook it turns out that you have to use a hotend+nozzle purely for the PLA for "best results". Well no, I'll just use one of the white tones in the material that I know prints and have laying around. Bummer, had a great time in the store. Let's talk about getting a CR10 + custom color PLA after the contest.
[update] the acrylics for the screen protector went to my parents place instead to me. They were not there to receive it and the shop it went to is only open from 10 to 5, Monday through Friday. The eBay person was good enough to resend it though, so I can expect it to arrive on Thursday, almost a delay of one week.
FAME BOY | FAME BOY - build log 4 - Hack Like Heck
2018-04-22 12:23:38
What a perfect fit of colors, but sadly this PLA wont print on both of the companies Zortrax M200. There's an option to load external materials on the Zortrax M200 for a while now and I was too shy to test it out (Zortrax is closed gcode and was closed filament). Since I've printed with PLA on my 2014 printrbot simple already, I didn't think there could be too many problems though and so I did a little trip to 3dk.berlin, that was 4 metro stations away from home. Sadly the printer won't even load the filament and after asking around in the zortrax user group on facebook it turns out that you have to use a hotend+nozzle purely for the PLA for "best results". Well no, I'll just use one of the white tones in the material that I know prints and have laying around. Bummer, had a great time in the store. Let's talk about getting a CR10 + custom color PLA after the contest.
[update] the acrylics for the screen protector went to my parents place instead to me. They were not there to receive it and the shop it went to is only open from 10 to 5, Monday through Friday. The eBay person was good enough to resend it though, so I can expect it to arrive on Thursday, almost a delay of one week.
FAME BOY | FAME BOY - build log 3 - Hack Like Heck
2018-04-22 12:22:11
Still looking for the right material to print the case in, but on Saturday I will go to the store of a local filament maker, worst case scenario they could mix up a DMG colored PLA plastic. But I'm sure I'll be happy with one of their 5 greys they have in store so I don't have to pay 240 Euros for 5kg of filament. I also spoke to a friend of mine who works in the copy shop I used to work and he had some great ideas about the screen bezel. I might be able to grab some better new buttons and silicone pads as well. Exiting stuff! Here's a current "render" of the case, I've placed the raspberry pi on the left side and the battery pack on the right. I'm a bit worried about it not being well balanced and I'll have to see about that when I have the rest of the parts.
FAME BOY | FAME BOY - build log 3 - Hack Like Heck
2018-04-22 12:22:11
Still looking for the right material to print the case in, but on Saturday I will go to the store of a local filament maker, worst case scenario they could mix up a DMG colored PLA plastic. But I'm sure I'll be happy with one of their 5 greys they have in store so I don't have to pay 240 Euros for 5kg of filament. I also spoke to a friend of mine who works in the copy shop I used to work and he had some great ideas about the screen bezel. I might be able to grab some better new buttons and silicone pads as well. Exiting stuff! Here's a current "render" of the case, I've placed the raspberry pi on the left side and the battery pack on the right. I'm a bit worried about it not being well balanced and I'll have to see about that when I have the rest of the parts.
FAME BOY | FAME BOY - build log 2 - Hack Like Heck
2018-04-22 12:21:18
Much buttons - such board
I'm done with the boards for the buttons! that's the most sloppiest board I've ever "designed". My main focus was on getting the dimensions for everything right. Hopefully every plastic nibble has the corresponding drill hole. The angles should be right. The shoulder button might be on the wrong side of the board, but maybe it's just right for the biggest lever I could achieve with the buttons. Boards are ordered from aisler.net, a German oshpark.com "strive to be", hopefully the boards will get here within the next week. Designed with EAGLE, because there was no time to learn to do that in KiCad (I notice a theme here).
I hope I get this project done before my sister arrives, she will visit our home town right days before the end of this contest, so I need to steal some time before that. Now it's back to waiting for the results and further designing on that case design. From there it should be mostly soldering and programming that I can do from anywhere.
Thank you for reading this short log! I hope the naming choice is quite obvious by now - I started with my LAME BOY that had a lower resolution than the GAME BOY, so it's lame. The FAME BOY purely exists to become famous like Ben Heck - a vanity project to gain subscribers Well I wouldn't have started something like it at least and this contest is about becoming a paid youtuber somewhat. Not so many choices with naming to come after that.
FAME BOY | FAME BOY - build log 2 - Hack Like Heck
2018-04-22 12:21:18
Much buttons - such board
I'm done with the boards for the buttons! that's the most sloppiest board I've ever "designed". My main focus was on getting the dimensions for everything right. Hopefully every plastic nibble has the corresponding drill hole. The angles should be right. The shoulder button might be on the wrong side of the board, but maybe it's just right for the biggest lever I could achieve with the buttons. Boards are ordered from aisler.net, a German oshpark.com "strive to be", hopefully the boards will get here within the next week. Designed with EAGLE, because there was no time to learn to do that in KiCad (I notice a theme here).
I hope I get this project done before my sister arrives, she will visit our home town right days before the end of this contest, so I need to steal some time before that. Now it's back to waiting for the results and further designing on that case design. From there it should be mostly soldering and programming that I can do from anywhere.
Thank you for reading this short log! I hope the naming choice is quite obvious by now - I started with my LAME BOY that had a lower resolution than the GAME BOY, so it's lame. The FAME BOY purely exists to become famous like Ben Heck - a vanity project to gain subscribers Well I wouldn't have started something like it at least and this contest is about becoming a paid youtuber somewhat. Not so many choices with naming to come after that.
FAME BOY | FAME BOY - build log 1 - Hack Like Heck
2018-04-22 12:17:42
[blatently copied from e14]
Okay, wow - the competition is strong. So I thought in case I'm in the TOP10, I'd use that sweet screen and go another route, instead of using a classic DMG case! Here's a mockup of what I'd like to do, drawn in 123D Design, since I doubt there's enough time for me to learn fusion360 and finish the design in it. The cartridge reader is supposed to fit classic Game Boy cartridges and Advance games, therefor the dummy cartridge is a mix of both. This design is 20cm wide, so to prevent warping and early release from the build plate, I'm going to spilt it up and make it modular, but the controllers wont come of. While looking for pics of the switch, I sadly found a similar design rendered by an artist. But I guess that happens to every one and I like the design and want to go no with that. There will be shoulder buttons, too. let's see if I can fit everything inside and how thick it will be in the end :)
Here is a test print of the controller buttons, all on one side, just to check how the buttons are fitting. With some minor tweaks this should be perfect!
FAME BOY | FAME BOY - build log 1 - Hack Like Heck
2018-04-22 12:17:42
[blatently copied from e14]
Okay, wow - the competition is strong. So I thought in case I'm in the TOP10, I'd use that sweet screen and go another route, instead of using a classic DMG case! Here's a mockup of what I'd like to do, drawn in 123D Design, since I doubt there's enough time for me to learn fusion360 and finish the design in it. The cartridge reader is supposed to fit classic Game Boy cartridges and Advance games, therefor the dummy cartridge is a mix of both. This design is 20cm wide, so to prevent warping and early release from the build plate, I'm going to spilt it up and make it modular, but the controllers wont come of. While looking for pics of the switch, I sadly found a similar design rendered by an artist. But I guess that happens to every one and I like the design and want to go no with that. There will be shoulder buttons, too. let's see if I can fit everything inside and how thick it will be in the end :)
Here is a test print of the controller buttons, all on one side, just to check how the buttons are fitting. With some minor tweaks this should be perfect!
on the 13th of May the winners of the BOM auditions were announced - on the 23rd the parts are expected to arrive here in Germany (send today, national winner packets were send on last friday). My plastics for the screen bezel were supposed to arrive last friday, hopefully it will get here on thursday. Ebay decided to redirect it to my parents place, so we had to resend it cause the dropoff place is open from 10 to 4... argh. I'm trying to print ABS now, seems like I have killed the hotend with the attempt to print with PLA.
Meh.
FAME BOY | A bit of a hmpf moment
2018-03-20 16:25:46
on the 13th of May the winners of the BOM auditions were announced - on the 23rd the parts are expected to arrive here in Germany (send today, national winner packets were send on last friday). My plastics for the screen bezel were supposed to arrive last friday, hopefully it will get here on thursday. Ebay decided to redirect it to my parents place, so we had to resend it cause the dropoff place is open from 10 to 4... argh. I'm trying to print ABS now, seems like I have killed the hotend with the attempt to print with PLA.
Meh.
FAME BOY | feels a bit empty, for reasons
2018-03-18 18:54:11
There was an unofficial statement of "bonus points for blog posts" on the element14 community page for the "Hack Like Heck" contest, so that's why I'm posting my logs there and I'm too lazy to copy them over here. Wouldn't feel right either, so I admit to being lazy.
There was an unofficial statement of "bonus points for blog posts" on the element14 community page for the "Hack Like Heck" contest, so that's why I'm posting my logs there and I'm too lazy to copy them over here. Wouldn't feel right either, so I admit to being lazy.
