Backlit Gameboy Pocket COMPLETED!
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Not in news because I want to take better looking pics, these are webcam ones, so the quality is not so great.
I BEAT YOU, BIBIN! You though you could win, but I have prevailed!
Me and Bibin are making a tutorial. I came up with the method, but Bibin has a longer attention span than me, so he will be doing most of the guide making work (Once I help him finish his, which is a bit different than mine, but a lot of the same stuff applies).
PICS FOR GREAT JUSTICE!
MAX BRIGHTNESS!
MINIMIZED BRIGHTNESS (So camera can see)
MEDIUM BRIGHTNESS
YEAH! I AM SO HANDSOME!
Sorry for the silliness, I am a bit tired right now.
This was done with a gameboy pocket and a DS Lite backlight, and a few "Bits and bobs".
Questions will be answered if I am still awake.
I BEAT YOU, BIBIN! You though you could win, but I have prevailed!
Me and Bibin are making a tutorial. I came up with the method, but Bibin has a longer attention span than me, so he will be doing most of the guide making work (Once I help him finish his, which is a bit different than mine, but a lot of the same stuff applies).
PICS FOR GREAT JUSTICE!
MAX BRIGHTNESS!
MINIMIZED BRIGHTNESS (So camera can see)
MEDIUM BRIGHTNESS
YEAH! I AM SO HANDSOME!
Sorry for the silliness, I am a bit tired right now.
This was done with a gameboy pocket and a DS Lite backlight, and a few "Bits and bobs".
Questions will be answered if I am still awake.
Excellent
- palmertech
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OH NOES! YOU GOT ME!Bibin wrote:It's caveat time!
You lack adjustment of contrast!
Backlight flickers with dark screens!
I will get some internal pics once I can get either mac drivers for my camera, or finally get around to installing dd-wrt firmware on my spare router so I can finally have net access on my PC again.
The brightness is tied to the contrast. When you turn the brightness up, the contrast goes up. Makes it useless with the backlight turned off, so I will need to fix that. But for backlight use, it works perfectly.
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I plan on doing a li-ion mod, too.
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- palmertech
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Over the summer, I fixed a lot of DS screens for cash. I got to keep the old screens after replacing them.Kyo wrote:neat. Did you pull the backlight from a broken DS? Wasn't it too big?
The DS Phat backlight is pretty big, but the DS Lite one is VERY thin. I am going to make another one with pics, but it actually fits very well.
The hard part, as me and bibin know, is removing the reflective foil on the back without leaving adhesive. I finally, after more than 4 months of different methods, came up with a novel solution. Info to follow, eventually.
Also, the pic with max brightness is misleading. In real life, it looks STELLAR, but the webcam could not handle the brightness. Again, it really does look great, like a B/W DS Lite screen.
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