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Game Boy Color USB-C Charging Kit PRO: Cutting Tool

22 May 20227 May 2024 giltesa 2 Comments

It has been a while since last post on my website, almost a year! A busy married life. Anyway, the new USB-C Charging Kit PRO for Game Boy Color is almost completed after having many “out of stock” problems with the components I wanted to use. I just hope between I receive the test board, solder it and order a batch in the manufacturer… they still have the components I need. I will write more details about it in the corresponding post.

During this year selling the charging boards for GBP and GBC some people asked me about any tool or advice to make a perfect hole in the plastics shell for the USB-C connector. Making this is a bit hard, you need good tools and also a knowledge about cutting plastic. When I made it the first time it was not bad at all, however it was far away to be perfect, many people had the same result or worse with a big big hole.

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Game Boy Advance SP USB-C and Audio Kit

8 Jun 202116 July 2022 giltesa Leave a comment

The third charging board of Nintendo video game consoles is for the Game Boy Advance SP.

This time it’s a super simple board because the GBA SP includes a li-ion battery and all necessary electronic components for charging, of course! However, the connector for charging is a proprietary connector… I think someone who has installed in his/her GBC and GBP video game consoles a USB I think they will also want the GBA SP with this modern connector!

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Game Boy Pocket USB-C Charging Kit

27 May 202116 July 2022 giltesa 10 Comments

I have today a new board to present. It has made for the Nintendo Game Boy Pocket which allows to use a li-ion battery and charge it by USB-C. Same functionalities as the Game Boy Color board but for this another video game console.

Both boards, GBP and GBC mainboard, are too different. That means I have needed to make a new board and match it to the GBP mainboard.

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Photographic album using ESP32 and GC9A01 round screen

5 Jan 20215 January 2021 giltesa 1 Comment

I have received some modules from AliExpress and the first thing I needed to do was understand how these works. so I made an example where the code loads all pictures from the MicroSD and show them on the screen.

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Game Boy Color USB-C charging kit

17 Dec 202016 July 2022 giltesa 33 Comments

After finishing my year of study and getting my graduation in New Zealand I had about 3 months with too much free time on weekdays. Then, I started to see videos on YouTube and I finally saw some videos about the Game Boy Color and how to modify the video console to improve it. One of these modification is change the original screen for a IPS screen with backgraund illumination, I will show that in another article. The another typical modification is modifies the way to provider energy to the GBC, that is this article is about.

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6 Nov 20205 November 2020 giltesa Leave a comment

I bought this printer many years ago, I don’t remember when. Anyway, I had always been thinking on why this printer doesn’t have any light on the screen. I had also been thinking about put it by myself, and finally, I did it.

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Installation of Xecuter SX Lite on Nintendo Switch Lite

2 Nov 202031 March 2021 giltesa 13 Comments

Nintendo Wii was the first video game console I have modified internally to be able to load any software that I wanted. It’s because I used to have portable video game consoles like Game Boy or Nintendo DS and with them you just need a special cartridge to do that.

I still remember doing this with the Nintendo Wii was extremely easy, there was only necessary to solder a small microcontroller with 8 legs a few cables. However, now, it has become hard in the last years.

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Assembling LED light spinner

30 Oct 202030 October 2020 giltesa Leave a comment

If you’re interested in learning how to solder electronics boards, I recommend you buy some kit on internet. You can find a lot of different kits and they’re cheap. I think it’s a good way for learning without breaking anything.

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