Wow love that build mate!!
Great idea on the use of an old modem for enclosure!!
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Wow love that build mate!!
Great idea on the use of an old modem for enclosure!!
Amazing build. And overall great idea. Would love to have the skills to pull this of.
Another idea for a case, could be to use an actual old tape deck (broken of course) a screen should fit under the "glass"
My Tapuino is up and running as well. :)
I bought a box but I don't know how to make those rectangular holes. Any advice?
Heh I always have that problem. A steady hand using a sharp blade and ruler to score the square, progressively adding pressure each time till it can be snapped clean out.Quote:
Originally Posted by Quagliarulo
Then sand or file the edges. Not ideal but it's how I do stuff like that!
I also normally start with a square deliberately too small then progressively widen it till the LCD fits.
Good luck!
I make some drills and finish with a sharp blade as stephenfalken says (if the box if made of plastic of course)Quote:
Originally Posted by Quagliarulo
Mark with a line the center of the holes before drilling.
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I cheated and used a laser cutter.... :) You might be able to find a hackerspace near you to help?
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Just checking in to this awesome Tapuino thread.
I'm just finished building one on breadboard, but will make one on vero board as soon as I get hand on it, and box it.
The counter problem is something I just ran into my self. I am already impressed by the code sweetlilmre has made, but if he could make that feature, I will bow for the king!
It occurred to me that the SD module I had bought for the project didn't work, so I made one myself, which worked great. Later, I tried to figure out the circuit of the module and it seemed plain wrong: the voltage regulation is right, but the signals are connected from the SD slot to the header connector directly and they have pull-up resistors connected to +3.3V. There is a total of 5 resistors on the board, 4 are the pull-ups and 1 is connected to an LED which glows when the 3.3V are present. I thought such circuit could never work, but eBay lists many variants of this module with 4 resistors on them. I don't get it. Is this a meaningful way of doing level conversion?
Anyway, my module uses resistive voltage dividers for level conversion and a 1117 IC for voltage regulation.
spcmb and I are getting to the finishing line on this:
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spcbm will be offering kits to put it all together.
If anyone would like to check the schematic, give it another eyeball and make sure we are ready for a first production run, the board files are in the layout/eagle/ folder in github and are called: Tapuino 1.2 con botones.brd and Tapuino 1.2 con botones.sch
This board features the removal of pulldown resistors for the buttons (to simplify, I will make options in the code to support both this and legacy button panels), buttons actually on the board and the MUX circuitry built in along with the datasette connector.
Additionally once proven I will commission a friend to design a 3D printed enclosure specifically for the Tapuino!
Fun times :)
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Great work, you guys! :)
Looking forward for the kit order to come up.