my first snesp project

[roxasnobody]

!UPDATE!
on wednesday i broke both my wrists after falling off a roof. So, no updates for 4-6 weeks, except maybe x-ray or cast pictures later.

What bad luck...hope you feel better.

I think I speak for most when I say that we'd like to hear the story behind your fall.

Well, me and some buddies were messing around at an old elementary school campus, playing basketball and such. We got bored of that after a while, so we decided to go look at the children's sandbox/playground just for the lulz. When we got there we noticed the classroom nextdoor had a low roof, and with the fence next to it we could easily climb up on it. So we hopped up with no problems, and even jumped onto the adjacent classroom with no problems. Then, i volunteered to test an awning and see if we could get down on it. I got about halfway down the awning, and then i was on the ground. I don't really remember what happened or how i fell, but i did, and landed on my wrists, which probably saved my life, since my friends said i landed on my back, which was on my wrists, so if it werent for my wrists i could have easily broken my neck or my back. After i hit, i felt like i was in shell shock-everything seemed to go in slow motion. There wasnt much pain at all, a little worse than a dead arm from one of your buddies, but there was a pronounced dip in my right wrist- that was the bone, it had been slightly angled. I suggested we go back to my friend's house, where i iced it, but that didnt help, so i called my parents, and they came and took me to the emergency room.

OUCH !
i know your pain.
was free running with some friends,doing crazy stuff,braking in to a kindergarden ,jumping of the roof,hopping the fence,braking into my school(you can see how many workers were inside it was realy hard).
then here i was about to jump off the fence .
BAM MY MOM SAW ME and i was like WTF!?!?,im done for fell of the fence hurted my back.
and now i cant run with out feeling like bullets was shooting in my back . all i could say im slowly healing .
HOPE YOU HEAL FASTER THAN ME .

[HamooliKabobby]

!update!

After a 2 week break from soldering, my wrists have healed enough to continue my project.
And i am tired of that SNES board giving me lip. It refuses to cooperate with my efforts to give it new life, but today is the day. the %#$* has hit the fan and i am showing that thing who's boss.
today, i put half of the cartridge connector wires (of proper length this time) into the board. im attaching them to the connector second this time around.

Next, im going to hack up my first party SNES controller and wiring it up. To do it, ill need a dremel, which ill buy sometime this week.

Then i need to chop off the top of my ps1 screen. easy enough, but im not running the led mod so i need help on how to relocate the stuff up there, cause i have no idea.

After that, i'll be getting two 3.7 volt 4250 mAh lipo's and running them in parallel, hooked up to a step up regulator. Can i get a link to such a part, and also will both the ps1 screen and the snes run off of 5 volts? because in ben's book the screen is listed as 7.5/5 volts.

Thwn its just case assembly and some final connections and everything's done!

Thanks for all your help, and thanks to those who wished me a swift recovery, because it sure seemed to work =)

[HamooliKabobby]

update

so the cartridge connector is finished (finally) and the wires actually reach this time! But, I'm concerned about the wires themselves. They seem like they take up a lot of space and will interfere with the final assembly- any ideas on how i can fix this?

Also, i got a dremel yeaterday. Its a real beauty. It was 70$, but my dad is a foreman in construction so he can write it off as a neccesary tool and his company will pay for it. Im practicing cutting holes in plastic controller cases, but im not very good at it yet.

So as for prepping the case, would i be correct in saying that i even out the front with bondo, sand it down, then cut out the holes? Also, which is better for that, bondo or mighty putty-like epoxy?

And im having trouble figuring out the shoulder buttons. If i wanted to put the original shoulder buttons in, would i just cut out a hole, bondo till it fits, then put a tact switch under the back edge of the button?

[limpport]

I would recommend attaching the original shoulder buttons to a piece of PC board, so they can still swing freely, and solder in a tact switch under the button. Then the whole button assembly is in one solid piece.

[Kurt_]

I know it's been posted a while ago, but I thought I'd throw my 2 cents of unrelated garbage in the thread (as usual)

Flux makes soldering easier as well as solder joints stronger. I use external flux all the time, even with rosin core solder. (No-clean = non-conductive, acid flux = conductive [see my fried SNESs])

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After i hit, i felt like i was in shell shock-everything seemed to go in slow motion. There wasnt much pain at all, a little worse than a dead arm from one of your buddies,

Sounds like a dopamine high.

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Dopamine has been demonstrated to play a role in pain processing in multiple levels of the central nervous system including the spinal cord [23], periaqueductal gray (PAG)[24], thalamus [25], basal ganglia[26][27] insular cortex [28][29] and cingulate cortex.[30] Accordingly, decreased levels of dopamine have been associated with painful symptoms that frequently occur in Parkinson's disease.[31] ... In addition, D1 receptor activation in the insular cortex appears to attenuate subsequent pain-related behavior.

From Popular Science:

Getting Into the Zone
Steve Cross

Timeline: 15 years

BACKGROUND: In the past 30 years, hundreds of scientists have investigated the “in-the-zone” feeling that athletes say gives them the sense that they can accomplish anything. When Boston Celtic Larry Bird talked about the game seeming to actually slow down during crunch time, helping him to read defenses more clearly and feel more fleet-footed, he was probably experiencing a natural dopamine high. Dopamine increases muscle-reaction speed and alters the perception of time. But these flow states, as they’re known among psychologists, are probably triggered by a surge of several mindscrambling, euphoria-inducing, reflex-quickening neurochemicals, such as norepinephrine and serotonin. Although studies have yet to quantify how much flow states actually raise an athlete’s performance, anecdotal evidence has convinced Michael Sachs, a sport psychologist at Temple University. “Athletic abilities are so elevated by the experience,” he says, “that just about any championship-level, gold-medal peak performance has a flow state at its core.” Elite athletes would do anything for a pill or injection that stimulates this feeling.

[HamooliKabobby]

!UPDATE!

After a several month break due to me being a lazy schmuck, i have finally summoned the willpower to start back up on this project.

I just finished the white led mod on the psone screen, and it turns on! SUCCESS!
The screen is black, but illuminated, with the volume/brightness buttons causing the appropriate sliders to display on screen.

Still on the to do list:
1.Finish putting those treacherous cartridge connector wires in the motherboard, wire up the controller

2. connect to psone screen, add batteries

3. ???

4. PROFIT

And of course the arduous case construction, but we'll worry about that later.