Dragon RGB SMD Boards
Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2023 11:23 am
A quick update on me, and DragonPlus Electronics.
You'll no doubt have noticed that I still regularly post in here - and I think I did announce that DragonPlus Electronics would have to close again temporarily. So here's what happened. Although it seems that my bone marrow stem cell transplant has been extremely successful (and thus the leukaemia in my own bone marrow is very certainly now gone, I have been affected by a common transplant condition called Gut GVHD. I won't go into the details, those interested can look it up, but I remain under St Bartholomew's care whilst they get things sorted.
So that's the health bit. As a result, I've not been able to progress SuperBOB, but I have been working on something else that I mentioned over a year ago - the scaled down RGB board originally designed by Phill. This has been a perfect hobby to undertake whilst out of action so to speak, as it's taken PCB design from 2D to 3D, in that to keep it small, I have components on both sides of the main board.
There will be essentially two parts - a 6847 adapter (this should enable the device to fit most Cocos and Dragons, and the main RGB logic board - enabling a flexible fitting procedure. The output is designed to interface directly onto either a Dragon PSU board or a SuperSprite, but there will be an optional SCART adapter board for those who have neither. I attach images of everything.
You'll no doubt have noticed that I still regularly post in here - and I think I did announce that DragonPlus Electronics would have to close again temporarily. So here's what happened. Although it seems that my bone marrow stem cell transplant has been extremely successful (and thus the leukaemia in my own bone marrow is very certainly now gone, I have been affected by a common transplant condition called Gut GVHD. I won't go into the details, those interested can look it up, but I remain under St Bartholomew's care whilst they get things sorted.
So that's the health bit. As a result, I've not been able to progress SuperBOB, but I have been working on something else that I mentioned over a year ago - the scaled down RGB board originally designed by Phill. This has been a perfect hobby to undertake whilst out of action so to speak, as it's taken PCB design from 2D to 3D, in that to keep it small, I have components on both sides of the main board.
There will be essentially two parts - a 6847 adapter (this should enable the device to fit most Cocos and Dragons, and the main RGB logic board - enabling a flexible fitting procedure. The output is designed to interface directly onto either a Dragon PSU board or a SuperSprite, but there will be an optional SCART adapter board for those who have neither. I attach images of everything.