Word of caution: many electronics are not designed for the shorts between connections which occur if you hot-plug one of those.
The short-proof approach/strategy would be to use small magnetic pogo connectors, but I really wanted to maintain compatibility with the GC Nano!
There are lots of connectors out there where the pins never short. The tricky thing is finding ones that can be plugged and unplugged often, while still being small. I've misused USB B connectors for this purpose; it's not common enough for someone to have the wrong cable to plug in, yet very easy to solder and to get the parts. There are also some circular connectors (M5, M6) where the connector on the device is decently small and the bulk tends to be on the cable side.
With a small crimper there are even more compact options which still handle many mating cycles, like Samtec's various Tiger Eye product lines.
Nicely done regardless.
Along with an "authentic" mini power "brick" wrapped around the middle of the USB-C cord. :)
Very nice!
The issue of course would be that there aren't cards of that format that can store the amount of data required, but maybe with a bit of fantasy a micro-sd card could be embedded in it.
This is kind of a Wii ship of Theseus.
Of course that's really just sidestepping the challenge of "how small can you get an actual Wii".
However, the intention of these miniature builds is to preserve the original device, just in tiny form. No emulation involved. As if it was an official product.
https://www.zxc64.com/vsa100_based/0_62911_strange_god_agp_2...
I am surprised there is not more HTPC frontends which duplicate the look and feel.
It's so cool that you can just chop up the motherboard like that and it still works.
Passive cooling went away during the 80s/90s homecomputer -> PC transition. But modern tech has brought it back - provided you choose form factor & performance expectations appropriately (even though modern SBCs are crazy fast compared to Amiga or Atari ST era machines).
This looks amazing, I love all the attention to detail.
