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| Designing a portable RAM card | |
| Posted by: trag on 2014-10-22 17:22:08 Doh! Bummer. With luck they'll get it sorted out quickly. They can't want to lose a bunch of commerce because of delays. Some time last year there was a big obstacle in shipping for remote control toy companies. Something about shipping lithium-poly batteries. They got it figured out eventually, but it took a while. | |
| Posted by: techknight on 2014-10-22 18:06:08 Well supposidly over 300 workers were fired from DHL at the port because of the scandal. it was major news. | |
| Posted by: CC_333 on 2014-10-22 19:21:43 Well, if this delays it too long, can you cancel your order and redo it via another carrier? If the company from which you got these is reasonable, they should be able to do that for you. In an ideal world, anyway.... c | |
| Posted by: techknight on 2014-10-28 16:26:51 This was a fun project until it was time to solder in components, the TSOP48 soldering makes this project not-so-fun... But nevertheless.     | |
| Posted by: olePigeon on 2014-10-28 19:31:04 Oooo. 🙂 | |
| Posted by: CC_333 on 2014-10-28 19:56:31 Does it work? c | |
| Posted by: Byrd on 2014-10-29 02:31:35 That looks a bit awesome - well done. Might be keen for one provided my non-backlit Portable decides to function again. | |
Posted by: techknight on 2014-10-29 05:03:46Does it work?it isn't fully assembled yet. I have to wait on the rest of the parts, had to replenish the project fund bucket which the circuit board order emptied. | |
| Posted by: SuperToaster on 2014-10-29 07:13:16 Nice work Techknight 🙂 hoping it works... | |
| Posted by: aplmak on 2014-10-29 14:38:35 Nice Techknight!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Looks great!!!!!!!! Again I can't even wait... my orders will be in as soon as it's ready.. I am sure many others will have their orders in as well.. 🙂 | |
| Posted by: techknight on 2014-10-30 19:02:36 Parts are on order... So this is it. Cross your fingers and hope it works first try!!! | |
| Posted by: FireBlade93RR on 2014-10-31 18:41:51 nice work Technight, depending on final price, i might be interested if you sell any :ii: | |
| Posted by: techknight on 2014-11-01 07:23:20 Oh, they are going to be for sale once I know they work. | |
| Posted by: techknight on 2014-11-03 12:31:29 Each day is excruciatingly painful waiting for the parts... lol | |
| Posted by: techknight on 2014-11-03 16:31:42 Finally! Sheesh...... Was getting worried as it kept showing delivery status not updated on USPS. But its good, they came. Got some finished pictures below. any thoughts so far? All that basically has to be done now is the CPLD jtagged and then tested!    | |
| Posted by: Paralel on 2014-11-03 16:47:02 A very nice, very clean design. I like it. You hardly every see anything done so nice and clean these days. | |
| Posted by: aplmak on 2014-11-03 17:27:08 Techknight's work is the best!!! He really does a nice job on anything he works on!!! | |
| Posted by: techknight on 2014-11-03 17:30:46 Flashed it. Almost worked first try. Passes no sad macs. But something is wrong in my CPLD code I think. it bombs with memory manager error when I go to about the finder. or if i do a get info on anything, itll crash with address error.... | |
| Posted by: Paralel on 2014-11-03 19:07:56 I'm impressed you got that far on the first try. If you'd actually gotten it 100% off the bat I would have needed to say something about the devil and selling of souls... | |
| Posted by: techknight on 2014-11-03 19:30:48 I did some more work on the CPLD code. I removed all decoding logic except the very basic stuff, hooking up only the lower half of the first chip to the 4-to-16 decoder. Tried it again, boom 2MB. So... at least i know my board configuration is good! I didnt have any doubts about that. 😛 At least I got the hardware perfect right off the bat. | |
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