Interest check: An updated MiniITX-MiniMig ( Pics!!! )

[Darrin]

Great looking pictures.  Good luck with the project.  I hope that when you finish it that someone like ACube consider a production run.  A batch of cheap second-hand Minimig v1.1 assembled boards on eBay combined with this new board would help to swell the number of users.

I'd certainly be interested in a populated board and then hand my v1.1 to the kids.

[Darrin]

Illuwatar wrote:
The first sign of life has been seen from the MiniMig - I have managed to boot it up with the Jakub modified core and PIC firmware. I got fooled by the firmware first, thinking that the board or the crystal parts for the PIC was busted in some way as it did not start up at all. But it seems like the firmware was compiled to operate from a bootloader - loaded the TinyBoot into the PIC and everything just started to work.

There is a strange issue with the RGB->S-Video converter that must be solved - when this is done, a new series of boards could be made (with all corrections implemented).

Great news.  keep us posted.  :-)

[Darrin]

Have you asked aCube if they would like to do a run based on your design?  They might have the contacts and the ability to do a production run in the quantities required to lower the cost significantly.