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I was working on building a portable DC but my picopsu got killed and I cant afford putting any more money into it. I have the following for sale:

1 Dreamcast. You will need to reattach the original PSU with wires, I took the fork connector off.
1 PicoPSU 120. Pretty sure it's broken.
1 "Hacking ...

I now see why many projects end. Unfortunately I screwed up my picopsu. Trying to recoup some of the $ I already spent by selling parts. Thanks for all the help though.

First milestone reached. Got the DC to run off my battery.

At first I thought I fried my board because when I connected battery to the pico the dc light turned on but the drive wouldn't spin even when I would hold down that little black lever that tells it when the lid is down. Turns out my ...

Ok, I have pretty much all the materials except the stuff I need for LED mod. Nevermind1534 said he will send that in a couple weeks. Just finsihed a diagram so I know what I'm doing on the work bench.

http://img25.imageshack.us/img25/1601/dcps1screendiagram.th.jpg

It is just for powering on ...

well i wasnt planning on doing the led mod, but if it can save me that much ma then i suppose ill do it if i can find cheaper led's than what the author of the book suggests -> http://search.digikey.com/scripts/DkSearch/dksus.dll?Detail&name=CMD204UWC-ND

i am not paying $13 for 3 little led's ...

Well, i already bought a picopsu-120 so ill go ahead and use it. Currently, I am shopping batteries and have some more questions I can't find answers to.

How much amps does the dreamcast+screen combo use? (searching this forum for 'amps' and 'amperes' gives no results :shock: ).

edit: Nevermind ...

I am a little confused. You say the picopsu takes 12v as input then gives out 3.3v, 5v, and 12v. Then you use the 12v given by the picopsu and put it through a 7808 to get 8v for the screen. If that is the case, why do you even need a picopsu? Can't I just connect 7808 directly to batterys that give ...

I am gonn a try and make a portable dreamcast. I read that some people say this is hard for a first project and some people said it wasn't. Guess I'll find out. Been reading up on how to do this and created a general checklist. Can somone add on or correct it for me please?

buy materials
hook up ...