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Entry 12: The Things Start Arriving

A project log for Aiie! - an embedded Apple //e emulator

A Teensy 4.1 running as an Apple //e

jorj-bauerJorj Bauer 07/11/2017 at 04:100 Comments

Just about everything arrived in the last couple days. A couple of Teensy 3.6es came on Saturday; the Tall Dog Teensy 3.6 breakout board arrived today. (I decided that I'd like people to be able to buy those pre-assembled, if they're not up to the soldering, so we're trying a version that uses the adapter board. We'll see how that works.)

About 45 minutes to slowly mate the two...

And, bless my luck, the OSH Park PCBs also arrived today!

So far I've found only errors in the silk screen layer. The speaker and battery labels (on the back side of the PCB) are reversed; a few of the labels for the keyboard are a bit too big and are cut off oddly. The drill holes for the display, and the custom part I made for the joystick breakout board, line up perfectly. And the joystick appears to completely clear the display and Teensy, no fouling at all.

Quickly, then! Let's throw all the components on the PCB and see what it looks like...

Oooooh. Pretty.

Now, the Teensy is fairly tall; I'll need to raise up the display higher than normal to accommodate. So we'll have to wait a few more days: some 16mm standoffs and an extra tall 2x20 pin header are on their way from Adafruit. Being this close to New York, their parts arrive hella quickly, so maybe I'll be able to solder this all together on Thursday...

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