Working on an Atari Jaguar. Spoilers, someone let the magic smoke out!
Working on an Atari Jaguar. Spoilers, someone let the magic smoke out!
A really mixed bag for this video, includes a Sound Blaster card, a Amstrad (!) Mega Drive PC/ISA card, and an Atari Jaguar Un-boxing Repair/mod.
The final video of the Sega Nomad, this has the battery pack build. More annoying plastic cutting and some solder work. I did a little clean up after this video, just added some insulating tape and a backing for the charge board so it does not move.
Working on the Nomad battery pack. Skip this video if you hate high pitched whirring sounds.
Got the Nomad all spiffed up, now just need the missing battery charging circuits. 13 days in transit…from 30 miles away.
Sorry about the microphone pops, will turn down the volume next time and wear a shirt with lapels. Replaced the A/V port and a cap, very exciting.
For this round of what’s on my workbench, a Sega Nomad with the original screen and modern screen, side by side!
Tearing into a Sega Nomad this week, insides of the rechargeable battery pack plus opening up the Nomad itself.
A few years back I made the Konix RCP1 (Retro Computing Platform V1), which is a joystick with a Raspberry Pi inside. For this year, I made something a little different, a new console that is portable (battery powered) or can run off A/C. Behold, the Konix RCP-2000!
This time around I went with beige and wood trim. I also went with wireless SNES controllers for the default/when I am out a friend’s and families’ homes. You can see on the front, it has 4 USB ports, on the rear, HDMI with optical and RCA audio out. When the RCP-2000 is plugged in, it automatically charges the very large internal Lithium Polymer battery. It was a pack that was meant to jump start a car, so it should last a LONG time in regular play. I also used a Raspberry Pi 3 A+ which only has 1 USB port, instead of 4, and no ethernet port, but I didn’t need either and it tiny as well. I was happy with the wireless controllers, but I wanted something fun for home use, so I went with arcade controllers using the identical enclosure and wood grain I had left.
The arcade controller look and feel great and my son and I played for a couple of hours pretty darn comfortably. I like American style teardrop joysticks with Japanese style curved button layouts. The Coin and 1 or 2 player button are just what you need to hours of arcade fun.
You get to watch 10 minutes of me drilling holes, you have been warned.