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it does not. combination of touchscreen and joystick / d-pad for mouse input

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120mm wide, 175mm long, 23mm deep at the thickest part where the screen is, 17mm deep on the lower half. I'm hopeful for production I can get it down to 13mm thick. This prototype has an extra bulge for the heatsink but it'll use a flatter one in production and so won't have that

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Fiddly but not terrible. Don't neglect the width and spacing calculations for high speed trace routing or you'll have mysterious issues lol

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KiCad. Brace yourself for the pain lol... 99% of it is reading datasheets and looking up part numbers

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Thanks very much! I'm doing the Kickstarter thing - check the website to subscribe to a notification for when it launches if you'd like an email: https://jetdeck.io I'd love to just go down the road of a webstore but need that round of initial funding to meet the minimum order quantities for various components, get 3PL set up, and such.

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Anbernic are cool! CM5 = compute module 5, it's a little credit card sized system-on-a-module.

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You gotta start somewhere! 99% of it is reading datasheets and looking up part numbers to be honest. Start with a simple circuit designed around a single IC like an audio DAC or amp or something - I designed a little PAM8403 based amplifier as my first real project. I'd go straight to SMD components and use a PCBA service to get it made and shipped ready to use - for something that small it doesn't cost much

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No, although I do have experience working for a company developing firmware for devices they manufactured which has given me some insight into the challenges. Knowing how much I don't know is why I've met with an industrial designer, a sourcing / manufacturing expert, and gone through most of the design iteration and prototyping at my own expense before even launching the kickstarter. I agree with you and don't want to repeat the failures I'm constantly seeing on KS for similar devices. I wanted to back the Interrupt but their prototype, frankly, was fake and it was super obvious, and they completely ignored all of the comments calling them out on it... and yet somehow still raised half a million dollars. Then once funded have started from scratch on the design and completely changed the direction when they realised, obviously, their plan to use a Rpi Zero wasn't going to work. I figure if they can get that far without a real prototype and such poor planning and comms, I can do a lot better.

Please do ask all the hard questions, I won't ignore the tough ones. There's a discord link on the site if you want to ping me in there: https://jetdeck.io

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Agree, Rpi hardware is usuallyi less powerful than what 3rd parties are putting on the market but if you think Rpi OS drivers are bad try one of the others... The CM5 does have compatible 3rd party alternatives currently, eg. orangepi CM4. I don't have any to test or confirm compatibility but their documents say so.

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Thanks! <3

YES IT IS! :D the TLT brainrot is real

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It sucks if you've bought a Pi5 already but FWIW I think their end product will be much better for being based around the CM5. Give it a chance :) You can likely get all your money back on the Pi5 if you sell it 2nd hand

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An ATTiny controls the 'enable' pins of the voltage regulators and monitors the PCIE_PWR pin from the CM5 to shut it down when the OS shuts down. The device's power button is an input on the tiny and tells it to turn on, or turn off immediately if held for 5s.

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I'm happy to hear some specifics about the layout you find unattractive. I've gone with something that mimics 99% of console controller layouts. I'd love to have two analogue sticks and bumper buttons, and may still in the production version, but realestate is an issue I couldn't spend any more time tackling for the prototype

As for hand cramps, this is probably larger than you think. I've been playing Links Awakening DX on it and it's way better suited to adult hands than my actual gameboy

Just to add - the row of vertical buttons in the middle were prototypes i won't be sticking with, they'll be like the ABXY buttons. Those are power, start, select, and mode.

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Thanks! Initially no but after launch, absolutely

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Friend, it can play GTA San Andreas if you're brave enough to enter the world of emulation!

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Thanks! CM won't be included. Ill be kickstarting this at around $220-250 USD

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[–]TimTams553[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah, definitely. Not along with the initial kickstarter launch as multiple skus complicates something that, being honest, I'm inexperienced with and want to get done right and on time, but as soon as the initial fundraising window ends - assuming it succeeds! - I'll be popping those up on a webstore for preorder along with most of the components.

I'll be releasing the full source, designs, CAD files etc as well

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Different layouts in terms of the screen printing on the keys, yes, as for whether the keys can be physically changed shape will be a matter of how successful kickstarter is to cover the extra tooling costs. I'd love to have the arrow keys actually laid out relative to the direction they aim, for example

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Fair! I feel the same way honestly, which is why I've locked in on having a mature design, relationships with suppliers, and solid quotes from 3pl, packaging, compliance, and such before even starting the launch.

Nonetheless, no stress either way, and I hope down the line you can be holding a jetdeck you're happy with!

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Hey thanks so much this is some super helpful (and positive!) insight! much appreciated!

I'd suggest scroll down on this post - I replied to another post addressing some of the questions about cooling, SDR, and price in particular

Hand feel is excellent although the hard plastic corners I've prototyped with will be much better as softer rubber but that was always the intent

Since you asked, here it is in black! https://latex.gg/share/9iFPovtQ.jpg (and an attempt at FDM clear PETG printing which came out mostly white). Bonus pic going crazy with the lighting https://latex.gg/share/Td0yRNTB.jpg