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Future H5 buyers & assembly

Information and progress towards the H5 board.
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Future H5 build options

Bare PCB only - no parts
2
3%
Generic SMT parts assembled (birdseed)
17
29%
Bulk parts assembled (as they are sold now)
39
67%
 
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Re: Future H5 buyers & assembly

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Reporting in from the US with a blank board.

I wanted a challenge, but I might have bitten off more than I can chew. :lol:
I'll go through the BOM and start gearing up to assemble.
Oddly I voted for birdseed. :lol:

Has anyone found any problems with these boards yet? (EDIT, Not that I'm expecting any, but if I'm putting it all together I'd like to apply fixes, if any problems pop up.)

Also wondering, if we remove the BUS IO PORTs, and remove the socket for the memory (and move to a QFP), how small could we make this puppy?
It'd be really cool to shrink this down enough that we can put it alongside a Roland MT-32 external.

:D I can see it now, the Atari Exxos MegaMini ST!
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me262 wrote: ↑Sun Mar 16, 2025 9:19 pm :D I can see it now, the Atari Exxos MegaMini ST!
There was such a project already.. but lack of time to do everything.....

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Took 2 of us to pack up the boards today. Just finished !

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Re: Future H5 buyers & assembly

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me262 wrote: ↑Sun Mar 16, 2025 9:19 pm Reporting in from the US with a blank board.

I wanted a challenge, but I might have bitten off more than I can chew. :lol:
I'll go through the BOM and start gearing up to assemble.
Oddly I voted for birdseed. :lol:

Has anyone found any problems with these boards yet? (EDIT, Not that I'm expecting any, but if I'm putting it all together I'd like to apply fixes, if any problems pop up.)

Also wondering, if we remove the BUS IO PORTs, and remove the socket for the memory (and move to a QFP), how small could we make this puppy?
It'd be really cool to shrink this down enough that we can put it alongside a Roland MT-32 external.

:D I can see it now, the Atari Exxos MegaMini ST!
I'm in the same situation with the motherboard, and wound up ordering an assembled version as well. I was going to order an assembled board anyway to make it easier to assemble. I was thinking birdseed. It's actually the sourcing parts that's intimidating, I have little luck with that.

Also, I was looking at the PI based MT-32 emulator i assembled a while back, thinking it would easily fit inside the case.
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