My Handheld Dreamcast

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Post by techknott » Sat Sep 20, 2008 10:13 am

Got back case done today. Take no notice of the overall finish for now. Loads of priming to do.

Going to make a case/cover for the GDrom and cdrom. Other than that, making some good progress.

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I did it this way because i figured, the closer i can get the cd to the actual body, the smaller it will be.
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Post by Mario » Sat Sep 20, 2008 11:24 am

Niiice! That's a great idea, putting the GD-ROM like that. It looks super-sleek. 8)

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Post by dragonhead » Sat Sep 20, 2008 6:13 pm

thats freakin trick! most definitely will steal that idea for my own! i like where this is going.... by the way, what is that hinge from?

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Post by Triton » Sat Sep 20, 2008 6:14 pm

that is by far the most clever arraignment of a disc drive that i have ever seen, mad props dude! cant wait to see this thing finished

the hinges are PSone screen hinges arent they?

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Post by Mario » Sat Sep 20, 2008 10:37 pm

Triton wrote:that is by far the most clever arraignment of a disc drive that i have ever seen, mad props dude! cant wait to see this thing finished

the hinges are PSone screen hinges arent they?
I'm positive they are. You can get a great view in the first picture; those are definitely the PS1 screen hinges.

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Post by dragonhead » Sun Sep 21, 2008 2:21 am

freakin awesome...period

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Post by techknott » Sun Sep 21, 2008 6:08 am

Thanks for the comments guys. Yes they are psone screen hinges.
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Post by Life of Brian » Sun Sep 21, 2008 11:13 pm

That's incredibly clever! You have an eye for design that I envy.

May I beseech thee for expository photographs of thine case mold and vacuum forming apparatus?
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Post by techknott » Sun Sep 21, 2008 11:45 pm

Life of Brian wrote:May I beseech thee for expository photographs of thine case mold and vacuum forming apparatus?
Thine photograph has beseeched thee.

The vac former is only A4 sized though. May make a bigger one if i need one.

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Post by Mario » Mon Sep 22, 2008 8:19 pm

You guys are funny. :P

That's a clever vacuum-forming table. It looks really effective, because of the small box size and that the vacuum is directly attached. Nice job. :)

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Post by -=FamilyGuy=- » Tue Sep 23, 2008 2:25 pm

Wow, nice so far, I jsut wonder how you gotta connect the ribbon cable to the gd-rom board, as I think timing is crucial for this part of the assembly, but it's outstanding I must say.

You make me wanna start back working on mine :P

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Post by techknott » Tue Sep 23, 2008 11:24 pm

-=FamilyGuy=- wrote:as I think timing is crucial for this part of the assembly.
AAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrgh, dont say things like that. Is this true or an assumption? Ive not actually tested it yet with the gdrom as it is.
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Post by ian2120 » Wed Sep 24, 2008 5:24 pm

Lookin' great Techknott! This is one of the most creative, yet intuitive case designs I have seen thus far! Can't wait to see the finished product. :wink:
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Post by -=FamilyGuy=- » Wed Sep 24, 2008 10:50 pm

techknott wrote:
-=FamilyGuy=- wrote:as I think timing is crucial for this part of the assembly.
AAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrgh, dont say things like that. Is this true or an assumption? Ive not actually tested it yet with the gdrom as it is.
Well I've tried to do an extender for my DCp back in the days were I had enough free time to post here AND work on my DCp (college = 28hours of work a day now ...).

Nothing ever booted on the console with it attached and extended, however I noticed afterwhile that a wire was *maybe* not connected properly.

I personnally really hope it'd works btw.

Also, a revision 2 dreamcast got no gd-rom board but a way longer ribbon cable for the gd-rom unit, so you could use of of these DC instead to fit your design. (if timing is important they adjusted it according to the long wire in the rev2 DC).

Good luck for this btw, it's one of the most clever and original way to do a portable I've ever seen !

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Post by techknott » Sat Sep 27, 2008 5:49 am

Progress has been a little slow due my screen going kaputt. So ive done a little work on the case and actually testing the dreamcast. The gdrom doesn't seem to have any issues regarding timing btw.

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