[Arm-netbook] Handheld Games Console

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En 28 de septiembre de 2015 en 12:37:53, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton (lkcl at lkcl.net) escrito:
> On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 8:52 AM, Daniel Iglesias
> wrote:
> > Hello there, sorry for not writing for so long. What would you recommend as
> > the next step now? As I told Miguel privately, I was thinking of getting an
> > STM32 evaluation board (they're really cheap, <15€ IIRC)
>  
> i know, it's ridiculous! i bought one from reichhelt.de because they
> accept dutch iDEAL payment (no other reason!) and including shipping
> it was like... $EUR 12 or something silly. love it.
>  
> > and building the
> > USB controller prototype. Once we have the STM32 reading all the values from
> > the potentiometers, pushbuttons, etc. and reporting them over USB as a HID
> > we would go ahead and design PCBs 2 and 3. How does this sound?
>  
> great idea, i've done the same thing, bought an EVB, i have to do
> the software for the laptop_15in_pcb2 as well: that's going to be a
> 16x8 key-scan matrix and reading an I2C touchpanel, converting both to
> USB-HID.
>  
> > Should we skip the eval board thing and go straight to designing the PCBs?
>  
> weeeellll, think about that for a moment: if there's a mistake in the
> design concept (STM32F072RBT6 isn't good enough for some reason) you
> just threw away the time and the money spent designing, assembling and
> then testing the PCBs.
>  
> if you're _really_ confident then go for it! i am merely... foolish
> / optimistic: i've designed and ordered the PCBs already (and have
> discovered missing components already *sigh*....)
>  
>  
> btw miguel, daniel, one thing: you need to check if an FFC-6 can
> provide enough power to PCB2.

What is the alternative?

Thanks.

>  
> l.
>  
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