GameBoy as external HDD

wow i like that colour, much better then the last one! :)

hey glad you like it.

If the weather is nice (and really think so), I will give it the clear coat tomorrow. Will do the rest of the wiring later today or tomorrow to. Must do a little re soldering on the led because it needs a slightly different way for the cables to go (This is very bad English). Planned this earlier this week, it is just a little chance in the cables. Hope to give you some pictures tomorrow.

here is a picture of the front part with two layers of clear coat applied. couldn't do more today, because it started raining. Will give it some more layers on Tuesday. But I can say that it starts to look nice.

It's coming along really nice. I remember having a lot of good times with our old GameBoy... ahh Tetris, the only game we had for ages, lol. Did you guys know those little cartridges aren't harmed by water? My bro forgot it in his pocket when he went swimming and it still worked after we dried it, but it was lake water though, not salty like the ocean is. I still wouldn't recommend trying to do that though, just in case.

pretty cool idea doesi87, +rep

I can't wait to see the final product..this is quite the inspiring project.

funny project, keep it up :)

Thank you guys, glad you like it. I spend some time on the led because it wouldn't work as I planned it. So I decided to use a fan-connector which will give me the flexibility I need.

Test the led and connector:

Solder the connector to the board:

I finished the wires for the status led. It will only have blue or off and not the red light for activity. First I thought this would be great but when testing the led it drove me crazy, so I decided to kill the red colour.

Here's the led attached to the upper case with hot glue. The connector is in position to connect to the one on the hdd-controller board.

When removing the screen cover I found a little problem:

I haven't cleaned it completely jet, but that's not the problem. There is a little white spot directly under the window. So guess what: I have to some of the painting again. There is still some paint left, but as I got my new rig this week and have to work lot more than usually because we have holidays over here this won't happen very fast. But everything except the paint is completed. Hope to give you some nice shoots of the finished game boy soon.

Okay I sanded the top with 800 grid wetsand paper for about half an hour this morning and gave it a last coat of paint. Now the "bottle" is empty. But man I like the surface now. It was totally worth sanding it, but I think I did it to long. There was no really viewable chance after about 15-20 minutes. But I wanted to be sure. You will get a pic as soon as I gave it the new first layer of clear coat.