DIDJ Hacking

I got my tracking number a day or two ago, my two should be in on Wednesday or Thursday of next week. Anyone in the texas/southern states that will be getting theirs sooner? (Midwest resident here).

@Claude: What was the thickness of the PCB you used? Did you have to modify anything to get the PCB to just pop into the cartridge socket?

@MaltedFalcon
The SD slot won't fit inside the cartridge slot and the jumper pins are for selecting the boot mode of the Didj (boot from uart,boot from flash)

@hookahjah
1.6mm standard thickness (at least in europe). But you have to glue some plastic sheet (~1mm , I used an piece of a CD case) on the backside of the cartridge.

@claude Thanks for the pcb thickness and your board layout which was very helpful. I am working with hookajah to make a prototype version of your board (SD card/rx/tx/gnd/5v/jumpers something like that). But wont have my diji till wednesday so i have a question.

My question is how far is it from the inside of the cartridge slot till I can put items like header pins on the board? I think that makes sense.

Also what methods/products do you use to make your prototype boards? (The homemade ones)

Thanks

My question is how far is it fron the inside of the cartridge slot till I can put items like header pins on the board? I think that makes sense.
Also what methods/products do you use to make your prototype boards? (The homemade ones)
Thanks

35mm from the inside.
I usually made prototypes with photoresist PCBs.

Thank you very much.

south texas guy here. ordered my didj from the woot sale, it should be coming in monday. im excited to see what we can do with these platforms.

I have two Didj units and one Leapster 2 arriving next week. Is there a reference for Leapster's "Brio" interface available anywhere? I'll have to re-read Claude's page to see how far he got with the on-board Linux after crafting (and grafting!) his own U-boot bootstrap. Great work, Claude!!

I'm hoping to get them up on Batch PCB tomorrow. I'll post ordering info then.

Awesomenesser and I received our Didj's today, and should be working on them tonight or tomorrow. Right now my plan is to etch a couple of breakout boards, and use an FTDI Cable and/or arduino with a breadboard to gain access to the console and other bits. The system is way bigger than I thought it would be. It is a little bit bigger than a Gameboy Advance, and the DC input is 9v, 700mA. I got it turned on, but to install the one game, you had to plug it into a PC, and I ran out of time on my lunchbreak. More to come.

woot! my didj arrived!