Today my resistors and LED's arrived for my alternative build. I have enough left over, so I also planned to use them in this build for the battery monitor, safe shutdown etc. so I will start working on that soon.

abrugsch wrote:I think that 2600 mAh for €2.50 is going to be wishful thinking

I thought so too, but I am curious

Drilled a hole for the tactile safe-shutdown switch



Also drilled a few holes for the screen control PCB:

Glued in the button wells and screen https://s29.postimg.org/jvhlgim1x/IMG_0405.jpg https://s29.postimg.org/elcmp81t1/IMG_0406.jpg This is how it's gonna look like with the gorilla glass later: https://s29.postimg.org/j8ioqzp5x/IMG_0407.jpg Put in the buttons and cunductive pads (one of them had to ...

ok, so it looks like the screen is a BW variant 7, which seems to be pretty common. Easy enough to make it work on 5V, but I'll do that later, screen itself is working fine. ;) https://s23.postimg.org/j8dl0pucp/IMG_0389.jpg https://s23.postimg.org/427j9s4bt/IMG_0390.jpg I have noticed that this afte...

The package arrived well packaged and in good condition this morning :) https://s12.postimg.org/ghrpxokkb/IMG_0384.jpg https://s12.postimg.org/qgcok5tzv/IMG_0385.jpg So what do we have we can work with? We have a 3.5" BW screen: https://s12.postimg.org/6zryxmyvv/IMG_0386.jpg and a neat box full of g...

OH MY GOD.....hahahahahaha. I was doing this late last night, and clearly wasn't paying the most attention....That looks like the issue for sure, just needed someone to tell me how obvious it is. I'll swap those wires after work and hope it works, would that have caused any issues with the batter s...

Are you sure you didn't accidentaly mix up B+ and B-?? Because - usualy is black and + is red, and in your photos it's exactly the other way round.

I'd also measure it with a multimeter to be 100 % certain it really is the right polarity.

Thanks again sota. I will test when I have time and post here some pictures edit: so all pins are yoused? No space for the home button I think Yes, all pins are used. You have to leave the home button out. The home button was used to switch between joystick and keyboard mode in [mention]banjokazooi...

activex wrote:

sotasystems wrote:I added a tactile switch for safe shutdown to the top right corner on mine

Thought about it, but when gf/friends are playing on it and are done, they use the original switch

Oh yeah, you only use it when you know it, that's true.