Hackerbox 0103 - Homebrew

*Thanks to PCBWay for sponsoring this video!*

In this video I check out Hackerbox 0103 which has us building and learning about the awesome Pico-56 from @TroySchrapel!

Hackerboxes was kind enough to be game for another *giveaway* this time around. We still need to limit it to the US only. You are entered simply by leaving a comment.
*The fine folks at Hackerboxes will be sending a new 0103 box to a randomly selected commenter that is selected on June 30th 2024 .* (Winner has been selected)
Good luck!

Resources

*Hackerbox 0103 Info*

*Hackerbox 0103 Instructable*

*Troy's Youtube*
@TroySchrapel

*Troy's Github*

*HBC-56 Web Emulator(Beta)*

*Fr4nkFletcher's Pico-56 Demo*

As I always say, if you've not already, go check out my awesome neighbor-in-retro, @retroCombs ! He's got good stuff!

If you have actually read this far down and would like a HackShack sticker, figure out a way to get in touch with me and I'll see what I can do to get one to you! :-D

Music: @WhiteBatAudio Thanks for the tunes!

[TheGeekiestGuy]

This box is awesome. I love the nostalgia in this one. 🤙🏾

[TroySchrapel]

Awesome job, Jamie. My first time seeing "what's in the box". 😎

[viJ]

Great video, Jamie. I built this one too and had a lot of fun. I wasn't crazy about the flux pen they included though, the one in my kit would barely dispense any flux until you jammed it down super-hard, at which point it would dispense *all* the flux, flooding the entire board. I've got other flux pens that I use regularly and never had this kind of issue with them... so could just be a one-off lemon.

You made the microSD slot look a lot easier than it was for me. I was afraid that if I tried drag-soldering I would get bridges to the housing, shorting it out... so I took it way slower under a microscope. I should have just done what you did.

Re: re-formatting the card. I had to do the same thing, but I had to even recreate the partition table. When I only reformatted the partition it worked better, yet still had some issues. Recreating the partition table and the partion made it work 100%.

Glad to see Troy added a command to load the directory! That had me scratching my head too. :)

[Kelrunmonkey]

These boxes look awesome going to have to get a few. Wish the would do a restock on some that I seen.

[RudysRetroIntel]

Another great video and hacket box kit! Always fun to build something and see it work great! Thanks for sharing

[ronwoch]

I love all the retro flavor stuff hackerboxes does. So much fun!

[EmptySetOutdoors]

Nice, Use to get these but had to stop for a bit. Hope to resume again soon

[gltchb]

This kit looks great, Im using rp2040 for my Engineer degree, maybe I should try to build a homebrew system as a side projecct

[M.J.C.W.]

I did not remember NES controllers being that small, uncomfortable and digging into your palms yes but not that small.

[DFXKX]

holy crap, I wanted to get one of those HBC56 kits when Troy showed them off, just hadn't gotten around to it. see HB still has a few left, hmmmm.

[TheGeekiestGuy]

I can't find an 8gb microsd card to save my life these days😂.

[ChristopherGreenwald]

Hopefully I can still get in on the giveaway