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    Yet annother Retroflag NESPi case with Mausberry, Softshutdown, DUO-LED, Momentary switches

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    • J
      jmcfsu13
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      nice!

      Im working on this as we speak, waiting on my mausberry to get here. do you have a schematic for your breadboard and pics of the wire layout overall?

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      • lostlessL
        lostless @cyperghost
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        @cyperghost I think you went a tad overboard with the custom pcb breadboard. I just modified the original board by cutting traces.
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        Also showing the mauseberry wired in and the reset GPIO circuit that exits the running game like the real nes classic.

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          jmcfsu13 @lostless
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          @lostless I am looking to do something sort of in between you two. There is no need for the stock power as the mausberry fits there, and your reset schematic seems over complicated. All you need to do since you cut the leads is wire one side of the reset to a ground and the other to a gpio. Do you guys know why the reset and power have 3 leads and not two?

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          • lostlessL
            lostless @jmcfsu13
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            @jmcfsu13 the switches can either be used as always on or always off. Or be set as one of 2 positions. My mauseberry was a broken one laying around where the micro sd port was broken so I removed the faulty port and just soldered the wires directly to the usb pads. I’m aware I can just run wires with a internal pull up resistor, but did the actual pull-up with resistors as a precaution. It doesnt effect the circuit at all, just lowers current flowing into the GPIO pin. But one resistor is required so the 3.3 is not shorted to ground when the button is presseed.

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              lostless
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              How the reset button is hooked up. It’s programmed to trigger on a low and reads high by default.

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                jmcfsu13 @lostless
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                @lostless cool thanks, can you tell me in a little more detail about the 3 leads on the switches? ive just seen it wired like 3 different ways now that seem to be able to all work.

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                • lostlessL
                  lostless @jmcfsu13
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                  @jmcfsu13 there are 3 sets of 2 pins. Each set is connected internally. Internally you can switch between the front and center or rear and center. The way it’s wired up by defualt is the power can latch between front and center or rear and center. But only the rear and center are wired up making it act just like a simple on off switch. The reset is a temporary push button that has its internals wires with the front and center hooked up so it’s on when not pressed. so when you press it, it opens and cuts power. I wired it in the opposite pins so it’s open when not pushed in. I hope that makes sence

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                    jmcfsu13 @lostless
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                    @lostless dude thank you so much, yes that makes perfect thanks.

                    what i was thinking with the reset is that you dont need to supply 3v to it. The way the basic powerswitch directions work is just by bridging pins 5 and 6 and then scripting to listen for the event. Cant you do the same with the reset button and since you cut all connections to it, just wire 1 side to 5 and the other to 6?

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                    • lostlessL
                      lostless @jmcfsu13
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                      @jmcfsu13 i hooked up the reset switch as a pull up. The pin reads 3.3V by default, but you need, from what i understand, to feed a pin set to an input with 3.3 volts to read. I did it that way is so noise can't set off the pin. Its harder for a spike of voltage to go too far down to read low if i'm already at high. Im not using pin 5, but a standard gpio pin like pin 33. I don't know what the difference is between pin 5 and and the others . Maybe someone else can explain that.

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                      • cyperghostC
                        cyperghost @lostless
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                        @lostless said in Yet annother Retroflag NESPi case with Mausberry, Softshutdown, DUO-LED, Momentary switches:

                        I think you went a tad overboard with the custom pcb breadboard. I just modified the original board by cutting traces.

                        Well I wanted to avoid solering on a ready setted PCB - these aren't ready for soldering as the solder is lead free and needs higher temps to get liquid. You properly will damage the board and the wire insulation will melt. That does generally looks not clean and the soldering points are very weak towards mechanical stress.

                        Second point is that you get issues if you perform software shutdown with the mausberry. This switch is intended to be the "captain" of all shutdown. As ES offers a shutdown menu the Pie powers down and the mausberry still provides power and is only useable again if you reset it or cut main power.
                        To avoid this you need to press the button by remote - via GPIO signal.

                        Maybe other power circuits behave better (@petrockblog 's PowerBlock seems to me the smartest device on the market) and it will be the perfect soultion here because the case offers much space .... so just pack a small PCB topside of the GPIO.

                        @jmcfsu13 said in Yet annother Retroflag NESPi case with Mausberry, Softshutdown, DUO-LED, Momentary switches:

                        Im working on this as we speak, waiting on my mausberry to get here. do you have a schematic for your breadboard and pics of the wire layout overall?

                        Well I needed 9 connections.
                        2 for the switch out from Mausberry to switchPCB
                        2 for the LED out from Mausberry to green-LED (+150R ground) on switchPCB
                        1 from Pi GPIO to switchPCB to red-LED (don't forget the resistor above or your red LED is dead)
                        1 from Pi GPIO to Diode to Mausberryground connection on switchPCB (Softwareshutdown)

                        Reset switch shematic is the same as drawn by @lostless
                        1 RPi 3,3V
                        1 RPi ground
                        1 RPi GPIO with resistor (7k-22k)
                        It set's GPIO via pullip to high and if you press switch the status gets low. So you are waitung for a change from value 1 to 0.

                        The issues with the reset switch resulted as I wasn't able to get clean signal from the Mausberry LED ground... This is a bit floating so I was forced to use the 3,3 power rails from RPi :(

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                          lostless @cyperghost
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                          @cyperghost said in Yet annother Retroflag NESPi case with Mausberry, Softshutdown, DUO-LED, Momentary switches:

                          these aren't ready for soldering as the solder is lead free and needs higher temps to get liquid

                          The trick is to add leaded solder to the mix, then it’s easier to work with. Plus my iron gets hot enough, but been there where it’s not and it’s like working with putty. I’ve been an eletronics tech for 10 years and have done my share of modifying things.

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                          • cyperghostC
                            cyperghost @lostless
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                            @lostless Yes that's true you can solder if you mix with leaded one. But The connection is still not save against mechanical force therefore I used a new PCB and soldered through lugs (??).

                            This is a high modded switch ...
                            It has DUOLED support, software shutdown - surly doable with the orginial one but I don't like free wiring ;)
                            But I think I will make a better solution with an etched PCB. I think I can organize all the needed equipment.

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                            • lostlessL
                              lostless @cyperghost
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                              @cyperghost I don’t I’ll be pulling at these cables so not worried about that. Plus there is a beauty with cables all over the place. Looks more impressive to the technologically ignorant. Lol.

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                              • cyperghostC
                                cyperghost @lostless
                                last edited by cyperghost

                                @lostless Well it doesn't matter as u usally don't look inside ;)
                                But I checked your connections - well done ;)

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                                • lostlessL
                                  lostless @cyperghost
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                                  @cyperghost thx. Not my first project. 😜

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                                    caver01 @cyperghost
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                                    @cyperghost said in Yet annother Retroflag NESPi case with Mausberry, Softshutdown, DUO-LED, Momentary switches:

                                    My route is much easier as it just used a Si-diode connected to mausberry-switch-ground.

                                    Are you saying you figured out a way to get the Mausberry circuit to cut power after a software-initiated shutdown using just a diode? Can you explain what you did with that diode given the fact that my circuit looks like this:
                                    0_1507566566886_NES_large.png

                                    My 4-player cocktail style cabinet built as a custom "roadcase"

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                                    • cyperghostC
                                      cyperghost
                                      last edited by cyperghost

                                      @caver01 If the SW brown is the ground of the switch then just connect any GPIO wire to it. This shutdowns the mausberry.

                                        GPIO                               MAUSBERRY
                                      from Pie          DIODE            switch ground
                                         O---------------->|----------------O
                                      

                                      I measured a voltage of 3-4V between the switch poles.
                                      The mausberry don't cares of the voltage source.
                                      Is it from the switch or feed from the diode ;)
                                      The diode is just for protection of the Pie against voltage feed-backs.
                                      But the transistor also works....

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                                      • caver01C
                                        caver01 @cyperghost
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                                        @cyperghost
                                        I see. So you are merely simulating the voltage that would go there if the switch were triggered by supplying that voltage from the GPIO. That makes sense, and definitely easier than connecting a solid state relay or transistor across both switch poles.

                                        My 4-player cocktail style cabinet built as a custom "roadcase"

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                                        • cyperghostC
                                          cyperghost @caver01
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                                          @caver01 Exactly. As the Mausberry mains provides the same ground to all connected devices I see no problem with different ground potentials also. So this should work in general. But it would be nice if you report back.

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                                          • cyperghostC
                                            cyperghost @cyperghost
                                            last edited by cyperghost

                                            @caver01
                                            I tested with a bare mausberry switch - No Rasperry connected, no LED just the power plug via micro USB.

                                            You measure between LED(+) and GROUND Reset Pad >> 0V
                                            Now you connect SWITCH(+) and SWITCH(-) with one cable just for a second to simulate a momentary push button
                                            You measure between LED(+) and GROUND Reset Pad >> 2,5V
                                            The LED(+) simualtes a GPIO output voltage + diode = 3,3V-0,7V=2,5V
                                            Now connect LED(+) to SWITCH(-) (just 1 seconds) and measure between LED(+) and GROUND Reset Pad >> 0V

                                            So this seems to work in general
                                            I used a 1N4002 Diode ... This shuts against 100V and I can provide 1A through ;)
                                            A bit overgrowen but I don't know any cheaper parts...

                                            EDIT:
                                            I measured voltage between the switch-pads!
                                            These are 5,0V and if you press the power switch the GPIO will receive back-draws and may get damaged .... So use the diode to protect the Pi - I don't know any cheaper life insurance (and this is a working one)

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