Mischief's GBZ V1 Finished

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Mischief's GBZ V1 Finished

Post by Mischief » Tue Nov 15, 2016 4:22 am

First build is finally done, So here are the pictures of everything i have done.

Quick look at the inside:

[spoiler="Inside"]Main shot of the inside:

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Left half holding the Pi Zero and Camble's safe shutdown PCB with reset switch

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Right half holding Helder's AIO board, the screen, wifi card, volume pot and speaker.

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I wanted to put some better wires for the USB devices so i cut up an old iphone cable, as the outer casing was a bit thick i stripped it keeping the insulation part intact and twisted the wire I then used some thinner heat shrink to cover it back up:

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Next I wanted to keep the battery bay as is so here is what I did to utilise the space I had:

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I put a piece of 5mm fibre optic cable running from the charge LED's out through the bottom of the case:

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Then finished it off by cutting up an old DVD case to create a cover:

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Finished pictures:

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Pic of the safe shutdown script video working:

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Special thanks to @wermy for his great original guide, @Helder for his fantastic work on the AIO PCB, @solder for the 3D printed parts he provided for my build, @Camble for his work on the shutdown PCB, @dominator for the square screen protector and @CaptainDurden for designing me a great black and yellow cartridge label ;) .

If I have forgotten to thank anyone then I apologise as my memory isn't that great, I welcome any comments that may make my V2 build better :D

Cheers
John
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Re: Mischief's GBZ V1 Finished

Post by CaptainDurden » Tue Nov 15, 2016 10:41 am

no love for the guy that designed your cart label?

:( :( :(
Helder wrote:People spend so much time in asking questions and no time looking for an answer that is available.

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Re: Mischief's GBZ V1 Finished

Post by Mischief » Tue Nov 15, 2016 11:04 am

CaptainDurden wrote:no love for the guy that designed your cart label?

:( :( :(
Crap I knew there was someone else :oops:

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Re: Mischief's GBZ V1 Finished

Post by CaptainDurden » Tue Nov 15, 2016 11:05 am

lol, it's perfectly fine. glad i could be of help.
Helder wrote:People spend so much time in asking questions and no time looking for an answer that is available.

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Re: Mischief's GBZ V1 Finished

Post by Mischief » Tue Nov 15, 2016 11:13 am

CaptainDurden wrote:lol, it's perfectly fine. glad i could be of help.
Ammended, you know I sat here for 30 minutes making sure I remembered everyone and I was sure I had got it all right lol.

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Re: Mischief's GBZ V1 Finished

Post by Mischief » Wed Nov 16, 2016 12:44 am

Well it turns out the screen is in fact broken, the issue is the backlight the screen works for a little while then the backlight goes out you can still faintly see the screen but sadly it needs replacing :(

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Re: Mischief's GBZ V1 Finished

Post by solder » Wed Nov 16, 2016 9:52 am

Nice!

The display working and then dimming is strange tho.
Maybe it's just a power/heat issue?

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Re: Mischief's GBZ V1 Finished

Post by Mischief » Wed Nov 16, 2016 12:26 pm

solder wrote:Nice!

The display working and then dimming is strange tho.
Maybe it's just a power/heat issue?
It's gone altogether now :( will be buying 2 screens one for V1 and another for the start of V2

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Re: Mischief's GBZ V1 Finished

Post by Mischief » Tue Nov 22, 2016 12:37 am

Removed the defective screen and fitted the new screen mount sent by solder (thanks again) yesterday, just waiting for the new screen to show up.

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Re: Mischief's GBZ V1 Finished

Post by chaosratt » Tue Nov 22, 2016 11:52 am

Interesting, what method is that bracket printed with? Looks very high quality.

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