Project: YAPS (Yet Another Pi Station)

[soulgriever]

I am currently working on a Pi Station with a Playstation 1 shell.

I'll give details of the design goal.

• Raspberry pi running RetroPie

• Sata to usb hdd 1TB (not in pic)

• Sata to usb laptopdvd drive to retain ps1 nostalgia and throw in a physical copy of a game if desired.

• 8000mah lithium battery with built in charger(Charger not pictured)

• hdmi to lvds decoder (blue board in picture) to allow for a 7" touchscreen in the lid.

• going to incorporate an hdmi splitter so I can use the screen or hookup externally.

• 4 usb ports in front 2 each controller port.

• modified heatsink and added fan for additional cooling (1.4ghz overclock ~65°C at full speed test)

Copper tabs to raise the heatsink off the board and post card to prevent shorts

MSI mobo heatsink cut to fit RPI3

Will update as more is completed

[lilbud]

@soulgriever The pictures don't show

[soulgriever]

@lilbud do you have imgur blocked? They load fine for me.

[ExarKunIv]

looking good so far. love to see more as you get it done :)

[edmaul69]

@soulgriever its funny, i was just thinking about 10 minutes ago, that i want to redo my pistation to add a dvd drive and i thought of a laptop dvd drive as well. I look forward to see what you come up with. If kodi has a way to play blu rays i might use a blu ray drive i have.

[soulgriever]

@edmaul69 just remember laptop drives have slim sata.

[soulgriever]

Didn't achieve much last night. Some wiring is run not much. Ruined 2 charging circuits now instead of an 8000mah battery it's going to be a 12000mah battery because I need to buy another charging circuit.

Also got to thinking about the dvd drive and figured I don't need the full drive just the essentials.

[soulgriever]

Update: Family is gone and now I've been able to make some more progress.

-Shell has been cut to allow for the screen to be mounted.
-Screen has been mounted
-Had to move the lcd driver to line up with the ribbon cable
-Batteries soldered and installed and some more wiring done

Still lots to do but it's getting there!

Alot more room than I was intending!!!

[soulgriever]

Small update, first video made.
Power button,Reset Button, Power Led ,DVD base installed

[numotiv]

Very cool project. You definitely have some talent.

[soulgriever]

Been awhile since I've posted any updates. Sorry been settling into the new house. PSU is installed, waiting on my LIPO charger to get here as well as some other goodies. Now to figure out how to make emulators pull straight from the disc

[Allanbuzzy]

@soulgriever I don't think RetroPie (EmulationStation) supports running games off a disc. You'll have to put it on the SD Card or put it on a flash drive.

[herb_fargus]

@allanbuzzy There are emulators that support disk drives (not sure about the ones in retropie) but I don't believe that it would be of benefit on something like the pi, I feel like it would run even slower through emulation so your load times may be longer than the original game provided he gets it to run.

[edmaul69]

@herb_fargus i use two disk drives and a floppy drive on dosbox. Not sure of others that do. Does daphne on the pi have cd and rs-232 laserdisc support? Would have been cool if the sega cd and pc engine cd emulators had cd support like the emulators on the xbox did.

[soulgriever]

Been awhile since I've updated on this project. Ran into some hiccups and progress has slowed. The dvd drive was unstable as it wasn't getting enough power, adding a powered usb hub and a separate power supply to help with this. However unless I get help from a programmer I dont think Ill be getting it to play PS1 discs anytime soon, However I can still save the disc to ram or sd card so not completely useless. I recently got my psx->usb adapter soldered in would rather go gpio but couldn't get it to work.

Purchased an arduino nano to make ORIGINAL psx memory cards hopefully run on the pi.