Gameboy Zero build

[beerman]

I have two different screens. One was from gearbest and the other was taken from a rear view monitor for a car.

http://www.gearbest.com/development-...47.html?wid=21

The BW screens are a gamble as the board could actually be slightly bigger than the screen. I got a V7 variant so the board is tiny.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/TFT-LCD-Rea...rds=bw+3.5inch

The advantage of the BW screen is that is has the 3 buttons to work the menu so I can change brightness/contrast/etc. The gearbest screen is set with no option to change and no header for the button breakout board on the main board.

Both screens needed modding to work on 5v. They both worked out the box on 5v but were flickering. Modding stopped the flicker.

If you are using a Gameboy color shell the 3.5inch screen might be a bit too big. You'll probably need to scale it down to a 2.5.

[beerman]

Another small update:



So close I can taste it

Still to do on this one (a lot):
Wire teensy to control PCB (wires already cut to size)
Wire volume pot to control pcb
Wire power to control pcb.
Find another fecking usb hub. It was working the other day, I plugged it into my pc and it says usb device unrecognised ffs. For now I might just wire the teensy directly to the pi and add a hub for the external usb port and wifi later.
Wire screen to pi (I disconnected it due to it being easier to work on in 2 halves).
Fit the L/R buttons (need to dremmel the rear shell)
Fit it all together and work out how much I need to shave off for the X/Y buttons to make a good contact, at the moment they are slightly off and only get a contact if pressed hard.