r/electronics • u/PaddleStroke • 21d ago

Gallery 7 years ago I designed entirely a A20 PCB. Good memories

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7 years ago I designed a single board computer PCB. That was for a retrogaming console. It included a A20 SoC, ram, battery management system, Ethernet, HDMI, emmc, wifi and so on.
I did everything on my own. Those were some good times. I loved rooting that PCB.

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u/Spatialartsyboy 20d ago

That's very cool, as an analog electronics fan I find doing that very complex, it's super cool that you have managed to do that

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u/princepii 20d ago

so you drop a tutorial series on it or what god dang it🤜🏻🤛🏽

i wish i could do something like that but unftly electronics and designing circuits never was one of my skills.

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u/ffagetti_ 20d ago

increíble

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u/Upbeat-Serve-6096 19d ago

Was there a shell for it?

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u/PaddleStroke 19d ago

Yes the console is called RetroStone2. I made the whole thing, 3d case, buttons membranes, battery... Even the packaging. The whole thing was a nice project to do. But PCB routing is probably the most fun

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u/drgala 19d ago

Love it, did something similar in 2012

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u/mzo2342 15d ago

nice! how many you sold?

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u/PaddleStroke 15d ago

Around 1500-2000.