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Soooo... Digging through some drawers, I came across my old Gameboy.

Consequently I have a large number of questions; apologies in advance?

I'm a complete newbie to modding, so I'm really gonna need some help here! n__n;; Please & thank you?


The DMG/Classic Gameboy (I presume external) dimensions googled up at 5.82 inches tall, 3.54 inches wide and 1.25 inches thick...

The Pine64 is 5 inches flat by 3.125 inches.


So, I think it might be possible to gut my Gameboy and squidgy the Pine64 and the battery into the case!? =D


I'd need help from Google, too, to actually *do* it, but I think this would be super cool! :3 

Or would it? :0c How do I deal with potential overheating? Is it too small a space for this? Or would heat production not be significant enough to be of concern?

And what about data storage... 


Awhile ago it was said the hard drive was 2.5"? A laptop one I believe. 
And while it wasn't confirmed by Pine64, someone else said it would probably be 7mm thick?

Is that accurate? Would I be able to sneak a hard drive in there, too? 

How big are the wifi/Bluetooth components? :0c The idea of connecting it to my (hand-me-down-i)phone to offload all my pictures(because my phone is weird or my laptop sucks(?) and it rarely shows up when I plug it in, making cleaning it out even harder) that take up a huge amount of my phones space is super appealing!

Or do you think it'd just be too tight to fit and it'd be a waste of money to add on additional components for this?

SkairkrohBule pointed out the USB ports stick out a fair bit, and thus gave me the idea of having them poke out of the game cartridge slot, so thanks for that! :D

(I wonder if I can use part of an old game cartridge as a cover for the slot, to protect the ports~ n__n Much as I love it, I'd probably sacrifice my semi-faded Pokémon Blue version for that job! Just so I can look at it all the time :P)

:0c I'll also have to look into replacing the screen, so it has a colour display...

Most results pertained to installing a backlight mod. 

So then I wondered if I could fit a GBA screen into the case; I have an old GBA laying around somewhere, too! After that, while searching for (another hand-me-down) my GBA, I came across my (also hand-me-down 'xD) DS lite! 

Now... That got me thinking... It would surely have a much higher quality screen/colour -- and *touchscreen!* =D

A bunch of googling later and I had the name of something else that I came across... SSD1289! :3

A 3.2 inch LCD touch screen(with some kind of card slot... Micro SD?) that I wouldn't have to carve out of another system and would be brand new! :D

I'd just have to remove the painted-on plastic screen so the whole thing is accessible/visible.

So, can someone tell me, am I completely barking up the wrong tree, here, or could this actually work?? :3


I also found a store that does modding/parts for retro consoles/handhelds: 
http://store.kitsch-bent.com/

It has some stuff that would be important, like GBAmp and Soundpro kits to improve the volume and quality of the sound. 

But then, perhaps I need not be constrained by (Classic Gameboy)DMG-specific hardware because I'm gutting it to stash the Pine64, and you guys might have some better suggestions for audio hardware? 0.0?


n____n;;; Sorry for this huge post, hope you guys can help me out!

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1. Does Pine64 support 3.2V Lithium cell. eg: LiFePo4
    If no at the moment, can this be included as an option.
     I have some 10Ah  headway cells that I could use.


2. It would be useful to have an option in battery charging for Max capacity or Max life.
    (Lithium cells at full charge all the time have shorter life than if 95% charged.)
         or
     is this something that can be done in application software

        


Thanks

when we are access to the payement, upgrades, accessories and module?

I am very excited and can't wait to have my board.

I was wondering if the PINE team (or even a third party) was planning on making an enclosure compatible with VESA for mounting the PINE 64 to the back of a monitor?

I have a similar enclosure for Raspberry Pi, and it is very handy for having a nice low profile low power computer for internet browsing, watching, movies, etc. Similar to this: https://www.adafruit.com/products/2534

Are there any Arch users here?

Can anyone point me to info on setting up the proper dev toolchain for the Pine64? I'm assuming there is a discussion for this somewhere that I'm not able to find. The toolchain and other related dev environment setup so we're all working on the same or similar setups.

Thanks.
-Chad

I'm sure that there's some article that i'm missing, but is there any way to overclock to get a higher speed?

Thanks in advance, i'm a n00b at this stuff

Hello,

I went to the preorder page but noticed that the store frontend, including where one is supposed to enter credit card information, is not using HTTPS. Can you please fix this? I would love to preorder one, but not I'm willing to give you my credit card in plaintext. It also makes me a bit nervous about how you are storing and managing this information on the backend.


As another user suggested, Paypal support would certainly help to alleviate my fears here.

Backer Per-Jarle Sæther would like to know:

"Do you have an API for controlling GPIO pins from Android apps? 

I would like to make my own apps for controlling the GPIO pins. Would be awesome if this could be possible from java apps without the need for native coding."

Can anyone offer any help?

Hi there,

Is it possible to power Pine64 via GPIO headers?
Best,
Dzmitry