Adrian McEwen
matthewcroughanFound a free Nintendo 3DS with a very damaged charging port at @DoESLiverpool and replaced it with USB C on their #makernight that happens every week on Thursday.
We added a red LED in-line because it makes it look cooler. The battery power circuit was beyond saving, so we just allowed it to be directly driven using any 5V source via USB C by hard wiring the thermistor. Maybe the next step is to add magsafe coil so it can be powered wirelessly with any magsafe power banks, which far exceed the battery capacity of the original battery that lived inside of the DS anyway.
My main laptop (GPD Pocket 4) ran out of juice on the night whilst researching and I couldn't find a PSU for it, so had to switch to the Shiftphone 8 which is running Linux, so I was able to use it as a desktop/laptop replacement for the rest of the night, which worked quite nicely.
By the way, does anybody know how to make homebrew apps for the 3DS using a modern toolchain that is fun? Let me know! I want to make an MQTT dashboard that runs on here.
#weeknotes
We added a red LED in-line because it makes it look cooler. The battery power circuit was beyond saving, so we just allowed it to be directly driven using any 5V source via USB C by hard wiring the thermistor. Maybe the next step is to add magsafe coil so it can be powered wirelessly with any magsafe power banks, which far exceed the battery capacity of the original battery that lived inside of the DS anyway.
My main laptop (GPD Pocket 4) ran out of juice on the night whilst researching and I couldn't find a PSU for it, so had to switch to the Shiftphone 8 which is running Linux, so I was able to use it as a desktop/laptop replacement for the rest of the night, which worked quite nicely.
By the way, does anybody know how to make homebrew apps for the 3DS using a modern toolchain that is fun? Let me know! I want to make an MQTT dashboard that runs on here.
#weeknotes
DoES Liverpool
