It is with great excitement to announce that everything is set for my first trip to the Midwest Gaming Classic in a little less than a week! The exploded view display of the kit and the finished portable have been boxed up and shipped to a fellow modder from the Bitbuilt forums who’ll be making the drive there and spare me a TSA hassle.
What a ride it’s been getting these systems as far as they have come and the places this hobby still continues to take me. Looking forward to meeting up with some old modding friends as well as meeting several other members of the forums I’ve yet to meet.
It will also be a good chance to get a feel for the kind of interest this could have on the general public and other modders who might want to give it a go. I don’t anticipate a great deal, but it should be educational regardless and I will hopefully be posting a video compilation of my time there.
As for the completed portable itself, there were a few firsts in this one as well, most notably the custom battery charger which eliminated the need for two different power jacks (one for wall power and one for the battery charger) and the new custom controller board which utilized an FRAM chip which effectively replaced the need to wire up a standard memory card. Another big thanks to RDC for doing those up for me!
There were a few other small changes to make the layout a bit cleaner and I am very happy with how this one turned out. The paint work is also one of my cleaner attempts and the 3D printed stand for it made it present nicely.
Again, I’ll be making a post about the experience at MGC and updates on the kit interest! Talk with you then!
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