CreatiVEmu Forum

Will this round of PCBs work? We'll find out soon I hope.
I'll need to go and buy some more SMD diodes and switches but there's nothing wrong I can see so far

With a tail wind and some luck, we should know by next Monday whether this is actually a viable solution or not

Excited!

John

Cool!

OK I couldn't leave well alone enough.

Cut up a set and fitted them to see how well they'd go.

The tolerances? They're really tight. It needed a little cleanup with a jeweler's file to be a perfect fit, but only a few seconds of work. You could use a nail file if that's all you had.

We'll find out this weekend whether it actually works I guess

John

Amazing can’t wait your next update

...and it does NOT work

Up and down are fine but none of the buttons are working. That's interesting because they WERE working on the last version :-/

The good news is that the fit of those controllers is excellent! I can tweak it some to make it better, but it's tweaking.

I need to sit down and trace out where I went wrong... What a pain!

Oh well. All part of the design process I guess.

John

Hi Chesh, what a pitty! Hang in there! Cheers, TOM:0)

OK, so I know I haven't posted for a while. You can blame me getting FOUR Tandy CoCo2s and fixing them
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. I'd swapped a pair of connectors!

So I desoldered and resoldered everything. Tomorrow I'll pull out the Creativision, check that I haven't blown up the controller, and then test the bodged connection. Crossing fingers now...

John

Cool!

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

John

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.