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• IT IS DONE! *

  Starhawk • 08/26/2019 at 04:40 • 2 comments

  * Well, maybe not quite.

  Finished, assembled, and... wait, what?

  You'd think I'd have my ducks in a row better than this. I finished it, including swivel-mounting the screen in a nifty way... and promptly discovered that I have no standard HDMI cables.

  Oh, dear. Testing will have to wait!

  In the meantime, here's the almost-final set of pix.

  Inside...

  ...outside, screen deployed...

  ...outside, transport mode...

  I have errands tomorrow (technically later today) so I'll pick up a cable while I'm out. I think I have enough money to fit that in...

  While I'm out I'll test it and see how it runs. This motherboard's integrated WiFi generally doesn't like Walmart for some reason -- it will connect but data won't transfer, it's weird -- but we'll see what happens. I'm looking forward to it ;)

  Catch ya'll on the flip side, as they say 'round here...

• The Eight O'Clock News

  Starhawk • 08/26/2019 at 00:03 • 0 comments

  Almost done, actually... altho it looks like the original connector is getting removed from the trackball PCB. I hope I don't have to do that... we'll see.

• Status, Sunday at Quarter to Four

  Starhawk • 08/25/2019 at 19:53 • 0 comments

  Power intake socket mounted.

  Power distribution wiring harness complete.

  USB hub attached to harness and mounted.

  Motherboard mounting plate attached.

  PS/2 Converter mounted.

  Power switch mounted and partially wired.

  What's left?

  I'm waiting for my iron to cool so I can swap tips -- I have a super tiny tip that I'm going to use to tack down the power switch wires. I don't want to screw up another motherboard, they're expensive and getting hard to find (cuz they're also an older model).

  Then it's a matter of mounting the heatsink and mobo, and cutting holes for the audio and LCD cables, and mounting the screen -- yes, I decided to attach the screen from Scrappy to this monstrosity -- because, hey, why not...

  A picture of the delightful mess RN...

  ...yeah...

• I'm a fan of good cooling... ;)

  Starhawk • 08/25/2019 at 02:20 • 0 comments

  Fan shroud assembled. Dollar Tree foamcore, you are one determinedly very ugly duckling, but I love you anyways.

  That's a 40mm fan, BTW. Spins decently at 5v, I checked. 'Twill do, it only has to cool a Z3735f. This is not hard. I knocked the corner off the mounting plate so I wouldn't have to take the connector off the trackball. The goal here is to modify the trackball proper as little as possible -- in fact, the plan is that, aside from case mods, this entire job should be completely reversible without much difficulty.

  Stupid photo posted sideways. (Go home, photo, you're drunk!) Oh well... I don't care enough to fix it.

• Start Here

  Starhawk • 08/24/2019 at 20:51 • 0 comments

  So far I've got a nonfunctioning mockup made, just to verify fitment.

  *This* MeeGoPad T02 board is shot -- I ruined it with clumsiness. The circuitry that's supposed to be behind its power button, to make it turn on, got torched by my horrible bodging-on of wires for a remote power button.

  Oh well. At least it makes a good "will it fit?" model for the one that works ;)

  ...and so, the adventure begins...

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