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by cheshirenoir
Sat Jan 07, 2023 10:49 am
Forum: Hardware
Topic: Look what's arrived!
Replies: 30
Views: 4356

Re: Look what's arrived!

So the new PCBs finally arrived and...
THEY WORK!
I didn't want to mention anything until I was sure, but yeah. they actually genuinely work. I am amazed.
I'll release the KiCAD documents and Gerbers tomorrow :-)
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John
by cheshirenoir
Sun Dec 25, 2022 2:13 am
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Happy Christmas
Replies: 3
Views: 1251

Re: Happy Christmas

Same to you!

And to everyone here. We may have the worst BASIC, but we have the best community :-D

John
by cheshirenoir
Wed Dec 14, 2022 12:48 am
Forum: Homebrew software and hardware (excluding games)
Topic: Creativision MegaSDCart wishes a MERRY CHRISTMAS
Replies: 2
Views: 1000

Re: Creativision MegaSDCart wishes a MERRY CHRISTMAS

Haha! That is AWESOME!

Well done @username@ and thanks for sharing, Scouter3D

Cheers!

John
by cheshirenoir
Mon Dec 12, 2022 1:30 am
Forum: Hardware
Topic: Look what's arrived!
Replies: 30
Views: 4356

Re: Look what's arrived!

OK I have done a new spin, with minimal changes, other than fixing the connectors between the boards. I have printed and sanity checked all the traces and I'll order tonight.

Wish me luck, folks :-)
by cheshirenoir
Fri Nov 25, 2022 12:49 pm
Forum: Hardware
Topic: Look what's arrived!
Replies: 30
Views: 4356

Re: Look what's arrived!

It won't be this fortnight, but I'll aim to get a new set of boards ordered next fortnight :-D
(It takes quite a long time for the orders to get to me, so don't expect any updates for a month or so, I'm afraid.)

John
by cheshirenoir
Fri Nov 25, 2022 9:04 am
Forum: Hardware
Topic: Look what's arrived!
Replies: 30
Views: 4356

Re: Look what's arrived!

OK I unscrambled the scrambled lines, put horrible dodgy fly leads in and... It actually works! As a 0.1alpha product, it actually works. I am amazed . IMG20221125165638.jpg IMG20221125165127.jpg I'll need yet another "spin" of this but in principle it works. I was happily playing various games, and...
by cheshirenoir
Wed Nov 23, 2022 1:38 pm
Forum: Hardware
Topic: Look what's arrived!
Replies: 30
Views: 4356

Re: Look what's arrived!

Oh wow! Was I drinking Cough Syrup when I did the keyboard board???
Only 2 of the 10 wires go to the right place. Tomorrow night I'll try unscrambling them and see if I get any life..

Progress, just very slow progress.
by cheshirenoir
Tue Nov 22, 2022 12:43 pm
Forum: Hardware
Topic: Look what's arrived!
Replies: 30
Views: 4356

Re: Look what's arrived!

OK so I have definitely stuffed up something here. even shorting the 3 pins together doesn't work. I'm going to need to sit down and work out where my schematic got corrupted and start there. At this point I don't trust it at all.
by cheshirenoir
Tue Nov 22, 2022 11:17 am
Forum: Hardware
Topic: Look what's arrived!
Replies: 30
Views: 4356

Re: Look what's arrived!

OK so I STILL have a bug somewhere. I need to do some more sanity work on this.
Back to the schematics...

John
by cheshirenoir
Mon Nov 21, 2022 1:15 pm
Forum: Hardware
Topic: Look what's arrived!
Replies: 30
Views: 4356

Re: Look what's arrived!

OK, so I know I haven't posted for a while. You can blame me getting FOUR Tandy CoCo2s and fixing them :-D BUT I did do some checking. I traced all the wires and they had connectivity through. That meant there was a mistake in my design. Having a look at the schematics showed me where I'd gone wrong...