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A project log for Dodo: 6502 Game System

Handheld Game System featuring the 6502

peter-noyesPeter Noyes 02/01/2016 at 05:080 Comments

Since the last post I spent a few nights working on software, but I came to the realization that the board is a bit too flaky to develop on. Every now and again the board just doesn't work, but then I press down on different areas of the board and it magically springs back to life. Rather than spend hours trying to debug a rat's nest of wires, I figured my time is better spent at this point getting the design onto a PCB.

Thankfully, as I built the prototype I kept track of all my changes in a schematic in DipTrace. I now have that schematic layed out as a PCB in DipTrace as well. This is my first PCB design ever which is one of the reasons I took on this project in the first place. It was pretty fulfilling to get the last trace routed. I have some finishing touches to do such as put some pin numbers on the silkscreen. I hope to send the design to the manufacturer within the next few days.

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