Re: ITX-Llama (Vortex86EX ITX motherboard) - DONE!

Posted on Yesterday, 16:17

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Someone posted a 3D printer one as well. I had to nudge the keyboard/mouse ports a little, but it is otherwise perfect. If you don't have a 3D printer, check local libraries. Sometimes they have 3D printers. I have a 3d printer but I suck at using it. My stuff always comes out looking bad so I’ll …

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Re: ITX-Llama (Vortex86EX ITX motherboard) - DONE!

Posted on Yesterday, 14:14

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Alright, so I was able to pack everything (ITX llama, Voodoo 3000 and a SATA) in the mini ITX case (bought off ebay and attached the picture). To do that, I had to use an AGP riser from MODDIY. But man, that was then the nightmare began. With the riser I was unable to get the card working. Then I …

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Re: ITX-Llama (Vortex86EX ITX motherboard) - DONE!

Posted on Yesterday, 13:32

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I think firmware for sound and usb to ps2 are not apart of the github, i might be that Eivind missed to add them. That's my thought as well! My gut was telling me that I needed to flash something on it but I'm a noob at this stuff still, so I thought there was a chance I missed something and maybe …

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Re: TinyLlama 3

Posted on 2024-05-17, 16:47

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Eivind wrote on 2024-05-17, 16:04: ahmadexp wrote on 2024-05-17, 14:41: Please don't drop the ESP8266. I love the retro modem so much. The CM4 can easily emulate a modem, same as the ESP8266. 😉 See, that's why you get paid the big bucks! Can't wait to build one.

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Re: TinyLlama 3

Posted on 2024-05-17, 14:49

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ahmadexp wrote on 2024-05-17, 14:41: Please don't drop the ESP8266. I love the retro modem so much. Same! Maybe there’s a way to even integrated directly into the board but hey, I’m not designing it so it’s easy to make that when you don’t have to figure out where to squeeze it 🤣

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Re: ITX-Llama (Vortex86EX ITX motherboard) - DONE!

Posted on 2024-05-16, 18:38

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Even though I had a functional ITX board, I decided to make one from scratch and solder the components one by one. I always enjoyed building Eivind's art work piece by piece, manually. One more thing, I routed the ESP8266 to the outside of the case and I was facing problems when I was trying to …

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Re: ITX-Llama (Vortex86EX ITX motherboard) - DONE!

Posted on 2024-05-16, 18:16

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I'm impressed you guys have the skill and patience to hand-solder 0402 components meant for automated assembly (ie., no enlarged "hand solder" pads)! I can only speak for myself but a microscope, good flux and A LOT of patience. this was only the 3rd SMD board I've ever built so I was trying to …

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Re: ITX-Llama (Vortex86EX ITX motherboard) - DONE!

Posted on 2024-05-16, 17:57

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Even though I had a functional ITX board, I decided to make one from scratch and solder the components one by one. I always enjoyed building Eivind's art work piece by piece, manually. One more thing, I routed the ESP8266 to the outside of the case and I was facing problems when I was trying to …

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Re: Upcoming Voodoo 3 rebuild- are the specs ok so far or what would you change?

Posted on 2024-05-15, 17:29

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After losing my socket 370 mobo I need to rebuild my Voodoo 3 system. This time I go the Athlon route I am going to use a Gigabyte GA-7IXE mainboard (already purchased and ordered) AMD Athlon 700 MHz (K7700MTR51B) (Already ordered as well) 256 mb PC 133 ram the drive and the cd rom drive are …

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Re: ITX-Llama (Vortex86EX ITX motherboard) - DONE!

Posted on 2024-05-15, 16:19

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you are my hero sir! works like a charm. Now I can finally say the ITX llama board is complete. Thank you so much for all your help! Fantastic! Again, congrats on a very impressive manual build! 💪 I appreciate the compliment. I figured i'd upload some pictures. will have to do more once I get the …

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Re: TinyLlama 3

Posted on 2024-05-15, 12:32

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OH yeah, if you could get it working from the BIOS itself that would be awesome! certainly not a need of course just a cool feature. I love the idea of using the CM4 instead of the Zero 2 since it's a lot smaller and more powerful. Hopefully they become easier to get as I've had issues finding them …

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Re: TinyLlama 3

Posted on 2024-05-15, 12:13

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As a lover of these kinds of projects I will be watching this and the llamablaster closely! Any thought, or room for that matter, of adding the HDD clicker like on the ITX llama? I love that feature. It just makes it feel like an authentic experience. I wasn't planning on adding a hardware-based …

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Re: ITX-Llama (Vortex86EX ITX motherboard) - DONE!

Posted on 2024-05-15, 00:05

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Eivind wrote on 2024-05-14, 05:24: snipe3687 wrote on 2024-05-14, 01:18: I don't suppose you could send me a compiled UF2 file that is known working could ya? Try this one! you are my hero sir! works like a charm. Now I can finally say the ITX llama board is complete. Thank you so much for all your …

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Re: TinyLlama 3

Posted on 2024-05-14, 22:39

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As a lover of these kinds of projects I will be watching this and the llamablaster closely! Any thought, or room for that matter, of adding the HDD clicker like on the ITX llama? I love that feature. It just makes it feel like an authentic experience.

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Re: Tiny Vortex86-based DOS gaming PC - weeCee

Posted on 2024-05-14, 20:20

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https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?p=1208343#p1208343 Here it is. Thanks for your interest! Still no SOM304RD52VINE1? Please take a picture of your board from the back 20240412_232633.jpg 20240412_232728.jpg Just looking at this I noticed you have a couple of damaged pins on the SOM. Pins 75 and …

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Re: Tiny Vortex86-based DOS gaming PC - weeCee

Posted on 2024-05-14, 19:00

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I don't suppose anyone has the project files for this that can be loaded up in KiCad do they? I was going to mess around with adding an RTC battery to the board itself as well as look into adding a MAX16054 on/off controller so it can use a SPST switch. I hacked on a latching toggle switch by …

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Re: TinyLlama (Vortex86EX SBC)

Posted on 2024-05-14, 16:54

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And I got the SM-750 with HDMI output to work. Yay! Now I want to inject the audio over the HDMI cable as well. Not sure if that is analog and digital. If digital, I need to figure out to do the conversion first. Hey, I know this is a bit of an older post but where did you get the SM-750? Any time …

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Re: ITX-Llama (Vortex86EX ITX motherboard) - DONE!

Posted on 2024-05-14, 12:19

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I don't suppose you could send me a compiled UF2 file that is known working could ya? Try this one! interesting. I haven't flashed it yet but just comparing the 2, yours is about 9kb larger than the one I compiled so that alone tells me I did something wrong. I had a bunch of trouble getting …

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Re: ITX-Llama (Vortex86EX ITX motherboard) - DONE!

Posted on 2024-05-14, 01:18

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Quick update on the other minor issue with the static, yeah I'm a dummy sometimes, I put to caps on 90 degrees from where they should be and rotating them back to where they're supposed to be fixed that issue. That's great to hear! 🎉 I flashed it the way you mentioned above a few days ago and it …

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Re: ITX-Llama (Vortex86EX ITX motherboard) - DONE!

Posted on 2024-05-13, 21:36

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Yeah, the labels for that area read left to right but the actual component is supposed to be installed 90 degrees from that writing. If I had been looking closely, I would have seen that they didn't line up with the lines on the board properly but there was well over 200 of those small 0402 …

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