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DrWrong LinkI got a 3D Printer over the winter and my first big project was building a Gameboy Advanced SP SLAB. This project took a fairly decent amount of soldering extremely small wires to an Advanced SP...I got a 3D Printer over the winter and my first big project was building a Gameboy Advanced SP SLAB. This project took a fairly decent amount of soldering extremely small wires to an Advanced SP motherboard, and of course I had to upgrade to an IPS screen, new speakers, and all that jazz. Overall it was well worth doing this project because I loved the system as a kid, I liked the form factor of the OG gameboy, and paired with an Everdrive I get so much use out of my little custom SP.
Funny story; So, in order to give the SP the form factor I wanted I had to flip the button board around, and in order to do that I had to get custom button board PCBs made to re-route the buttons to the face of the case. The guy whose designs I uses, Xepher, used to sell the PCBs, but no longer has any in stock. I contacted him. He told me to take his PCB design files and use JCBPCB, a manufacturer out of China, to get the boards made for the project. I was dreading the inevitable cost. It turns out that as a first time buyer, coupled with a coupon code, JBCPCB could make & ship me 5 Gameboy Advanced SP SLAP button PCBs for a total cost of $4.72. Crazy! I only needed one, but five was rhe min, but at that price I didn't care. So, if anyone else is interested in doing that project, get in touch with me and I'll hook you up with the button board.
I actually have one of those old 1541 disk drives, but no Commodore 64. I'm not sure if it works or not because when I found it there was no power cord. I've also been thinking of getting a C64 for some retro-computing fun.