Whew…at long last I’m finally done! what a journey!
I jacked up my original board trying to notch a pass through for my Trinket M0 wires to get from the front to the back. Long story short, multi-layered boards do NOT like this.
Bought a donor board off eBay to swap out the battery circuit components that I undoubtedly fried in the “notching” process…ended up letting the smoke out of that one by simply plugging it in to the battery. Not sure if my fault or the board was bad to begin with since it was parts-only.
Finally broke down and bought a Fair Condition V1 off eBay and swapped out all the guts.
Here’s what’s new:
- all aluminum shell (front and back)
- Replaced all screen components with one piece digitizer/LCD
- Reed switch (magnetic) Trinket reset “button” (aluminum doesn’t flex, yo!)
- upgraded the fan
- new thermal paste and thermal pads...everywhere!
- boxy pixel aluminum joycons
aluminum dpad and abxy buttons
metal slide locks
new thumb sticks (white)
- Extremerate stuff (all together so this doesn’t look like an advertisement)
illuminated trigger buttons (white)
firefly kit (white)
screen protector (with white border)
Overall, impressions, everything has a bit more heft to it. Feels very nice in the hands. The look is just out of this world!
All that said it now feels a bit like a museum pice. I’m scared I’ll scratch it. It’s made of metal but i feel like I’m going to break it because I know the bodges I put in to make it all work. I’m always hyper-critical of my own work and every little bulge or .25mm gap drives me nuts. The kickstand pops off a little too easy for my tastes. I had to replace the internal button on one of the triggers and it’s way clicker than all the other buttons now. The aluminum buttons are a bit wobbly (going to try the double sided tape fix). I liked it when it was all Ninty’s fault. Now all issues are mine alone! I know I’ll get over it with time.
Bottom Line: Would I do it again? Hells yes!
Anyway, without further ado, here’s some glamour shots of the finished product!
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(circular magnets are to trigger the reset switch on the Trinket)
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(the white knight rider lights are nuanced...nobody is ever going to see them but me.)
side project: while my V1 system was down I bought a cheap V2 and chipped it. HWFLY prices are <$80 on aliexpress now so timing was right. This project was super easy in comparison. I was probably being more careful and making fewer mistakes. Almost everything is second hand off eBay or slow boated in from Aliexpress so while it looks like a lot, it really wasn’t.
Here she is in all her glory:
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white binbok slim controllers
white dock is just an aliexpress faceplate.
was going to swap out the dpad with the aluminum PlayStation one but binbok changed their sizing.
Fortnite Edition underneath…
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10000mAh battery extender that‘s too fat to work with the dock mounted joycon charger which also doesn’t fit the binbok joycons.
(Custom mods are hard to get right ya’ll)
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I think that’s going to be it for hardware mods for a while, fellas…
e: ohhhh. What’s this?
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(Knock off Pro controller and 3500mAh LiPos from AE just arrived…back to the workbench?)
