(05-16-2016, 03:17 PM)CaptainZalo Wrote: I built one from a wide variety of the shoddy Lego my nephews have dumped at my Mother-in-law's house. Took me a couple of hours to dig out the bricks to make a box with a lid for the Pine. I'll assemble the box and the Pine tomorrow night, and we'll see if I have to move the lid around.
I'd nearly forgotten how fun it is to geek out with legos. My wife didn't understand it at all, but she's not into computers or Lego, so I can't blame her for thinking he husband is a big kid sometimes. Dad of the year award incoming when I get Emulation Station and the controllers hooked up to the pine and then to the 50" TV, though.

(05-16-2016, 03:41 PM)MrWizerd Wrote: @Tarjei85 - Yeah that is a bit of  a cheat but yah I see what you have going on there now, its no less impressive.  The close in looks great, though you loose what, every other LED?  I was thinking you could use 1x1 translucent bricks and then pop a solid color brick between them so that the LED's each have there own window.  I dont know if it would be just a 1x1x1/3 for each led or two of them per, and your right not everyone has a tonne of legos.  So your technicolor build is acceptable.  TBH I have not bought too many bricks to use specifically on this project, maybe 10-15% BUT I have to admit I am running low on 1xYx1/3 bricks or plates as they are sometimes refered to.  So, I may start purchasing more if I need too, or start using another color.  I have yellow but most of them are small.

@CaptainZalo - My wife groans everytime I take out the Lego's and thats JUST for this project.  I don't take them out often these days, but she doesn't get anything I do, the computer stuff, games, Lego, SCA, Anime,  we see eye to eye on most philosophical matters and a lot of political ones, most parenting ones as well.  I love my wife dearly but she is not a geek, and while she does enjoy most of what I can do when it comes to repairing things around the house, cooking, cleaaning, sewing, she doesn't care for the clutter electronics, computers, and well any tinkering really can create.  I tell her I am pretty damned organized for how much I do, and how much I have, and show her pictures of others benches and she just grumbles something about dump trucks and walks away AHAHAHAHA!!!!

Tarjei85 Wrote:Sounds like you are going to use the pine the same way I am.
I am currently running Android 5.1.1 20160505 buildwith Lightning Launcher on my Pine a64+ 2Gb board thats hooked up to my 55" TV.
Currently I have LOTS of different Android games running on it as well as GBA, NDS, PSP, SNES, DOSBox and PSx emulators with a wide variety of games to each emulator.

Tarjei85 Wrote:Looking forward to see your Lego casing

(05-17-2016, 02:01 PM)CaptainZalo Wrote:

Tarjei85 Wrote:Sounds like you are going to use the pine the same way I am.
I am currently running Android 5.1.1 20160505 buildwith Lightning Launcher on my Pine a64+ 2Gb board thats hooked up to my 55" TV.
Currently I have LOTS of different Android games running on it as well as GBA, NDS, PSP, SNES, DOSBox and PSx emulators with a wide variety of games to each emulator.

I'm using Emulation Station on Linux. It's a bit more hassle to set up, but also handles most C64, Atari ST and Amiga 500/600/1200 games as well as those platforms you mentioned.
As an old Amiga fanboy, I've bought roms from Amiga Forever and put those into ES. I can run a functioning Workbench with AmigaOS 3.1 on the RPi3, but I really want to see it fly with hardware accelleration on the Pine64 before I sink my feet into the Apollo-core magic next year.

Tarjei85 Wrote:Looking forward to see your Lego casing

Oh dear. I took some pictures. Lo and behold: PICTARS

(05-22-2016, 03:47 PM)MrWizerd Wrote: So, I have the worse luck with Micro USB ports and as much power as is going through this one I figured I did not want to take the chance.  So I wired up a 5.5mm plug and framed it in under the board. then out through the "front" and back into the Euler header.