Hacking DEAD [Shutdown]DragonInjector - Game Cart Payload Injector (Trinket M0 Clone)

[XiorgON]

Thanks for the suggestion! I actually spammed a bunch of sellers on AliExpress that have good feedback, reviews that aren't fake and have been around a few years to see if they're able to provide proof of legitimacy of the Korchip cap (because it's much less in demand and less likely to be counterfeited) and some have actually followed through. One of them is giving me a pretty good price if I order in quantities of 100 or more, so I ordered a batch of 100.

Perfect to hear that my friend, can you seed me the link for the pre-order please ?
Do you have corrected the proplem for the transistor to fit in the jig ?

 

[MatinatorX]

Perfect to hear that my friend, can you seed me the link for the pre-order please ?
Do you have corrected the proplem for the transistor to fit in the jig ?

I will post the link for preorders here as soon as the first batch ships and I get a few confirmed happy testers. The first batch of 10 is already spoken for and should be going out in 2 weeks, and as long as the feedback is good, another batch will be hopefully going out 2 weeks after that of 100.

The resistor you see in the photos is actually just a 1/4W I had lying around, the proper resistor is an 1/8W and much smaller, they just haven't arrived yet. The correct resistor will fit inside the jig no problem, don't worry

 

[XiorgON]

I will post the link for preorders here as soon as the first batch ships and I get a few confirmed happy testers. The first batch of 10 is already spoken for and should be going out in 2 weeks, and as long as the feedback is good, another batch will be hopefully going out 2 weeks after that of 100.

The resistor you see in the photos is actually just a 1/4W I had lying around, the proper resistor is an 1/8W and much smaller, they just haven't arrived yet. The correct resistor will fit inside the jig no problem, don't worry

other question concerning the jig.
Why the configurationpin of your jig is not the same as SX ?

 

[DarkMatterCore]

I'm also interested in getting one of these, count me in.

 

[MatinatorX]

other question concerning the jig.
Why the configurationpin of your jig is not the same as SX ?

If you're talking about which pins I'm shorting, it just made more sense to use pins 1 and 10 for the design. As long as pin 10 is held low you can use any other pin that's a ground pin. Pins 1, 2, 7 and 9 are all ground pins, so you can connect pin 10 to any of them and you'll still get into RCM mode. If you look at all the different jigs out there, you'll find many of them short different pins than the SX dongle does.

 

[macia10]

I'm from Poland and also interested in this!

 

[ManuelKoegler]

-snip-

 

[tyler004]

so the first test batch will be done and shipping out in two weeks, I`m located in Canada so I`m hoping the shipping won`t be to long cuz im excited to try this

 

[bundat]

I'm also interested, how do I get in the queue?

 

[NemRe]

I'm interested too... Thank you for making it possible

 

[anonymoose]

I would totally get one too. Germany here

 

[sigboe]

@MatinatorX

Is the case easy to print? Have you printed the case? What settings did you print? Layer thickness/speed/material?

Will you sell only the PCB, so I can print the plastic my self?

If you want I can try to print some and send pictures of the outcome this weekend, but I didn't see any STL files.

 

[MYFW]

Im interested too!

 

[ghjfdtg]

I dunno what you pay currently for the PCBs but you could give JLCPCB or other chinese PCB makers a shot. The prices are unbelievable low and the quality is fine. Maybe you can get the costs down a bit more.

 

[sigboe]

I dunno what you pay currently for the PCBs but you could give JLCPCB or other chinese PCB makers a shot. The prices are unbelievable low and the quality is fine. Maybe you can get the costs down a bit more.

Holy cow that pcb fab is cheap!, looks like I will be building a new keyboard

 

[Andalitez]

Gosh, put me in line to purchase one !

 

[Lumince]

Tbh, I might want to get a few of them. I heard the test batches are taken, but I want to be in line for some.
I was hoping maybe having multiple ones. Like 1 for SX OS, 1 for Hekate, and 1 for whatever else is out there. Would you be willing to do custom labels for them if you were to consider doing 1 for each cfw?

@MatinatorX

 

[cainan__c]

Ey, sign me the fuck up laddie. I don't care how much this could cost, it's better then SX PRO imo.

 

[MatinatorX]

@MatinatorX

Is the case easy to print? Have you printed the case? What settings did you print? Layer thickness/speed/material?

Will you sell only the PCB, so I can print the plastic my self?

If you want I can try to print some and send pictures of the outcome this weekend, but I didn't see any STL files.

I haven't tried it on my own printer yet, I'm waiting on some parts that were supposed to be here yesterday. My Z axis has sticking issues I traces down to the flexible couplings so I'm waiting on rigid ones along with better stepper drivers.

I'm not sure if the jig will be printable on FDM but the cap and case should be. I'll definitely be offering the board only without a case, and I'll also be offering cases without a board. If you have the capability to make part or all of the dongle yourself I encourage you to do so.

Since you're the first to offer, I'll send you the meshes this weekend if you'd be so kind as to provide feedback on how it goes!

I dunno what you pay currently for the PCBs but you could give JLCPCB or other chinese PCB makers a shot. The prices are unbelievable low and the quality is fine. Maybe you can get the costs down a bit more.

I actually placed an order at JLCPCB before I went to bed last night as PCBGOGO is taking absolutely forever to ship and they got my address wrong twice now. The boards I ordered a month ago from JLCPCB were flawless and much better than the ones I normally get from Seeed. Last night I discovered LCSC.com, a parts store like Mouser or Digikey but based in China. Did some research and they sell legit parts, and the best part is that they're owned by the same company as JLCPCB so they combined shipping with my boards for free! I was able to find almost all of my parts there for a good bit cheaper, including the Korchip supercap I want. So the price will remain $23USD/$30 CAD!

Only the ATSAMD was more expensive, and I couldn't find Dotstar 2020 LEDs or the right Type C connectors, but I have good sources for those already so it's not a problem.

I have 100 more of every part - save for the USB connector and the ATSAMD - on the way now, plus 200 more boards. As soon as I know the prototype works well, I'll order those too, so the first "public" batch of 100 should be out as soon as the testers confirm all is well. The ATSAMD is pretty expensive at $3.35 each in batches of 100 and each USB connector is $1 so that's why I'm waiting.

Gosh, put me in line to purchase one !

Tbh, I might want to get a few of them. I heard the test batches are taken, but I want to be in line for some.
I was hoping maybe having multiple ones. Like 1 for SX OS, 1 for Hekate, and 1 for whatever else is out there. Would you be willing to do custom labels for them if you were to consider doing 1 for each cfw?

@MatinatorX

Ey, sign me the fuck up laddie. I don't care how much this could cost, it's better then SX PRO imo.

Honestly I'm blown away by how much support this has gotten. Thank you so much everyone!! I'll share news about new batches and progress and stuff as soon as I can! I'm sorry if I'm not able to respond to everyone here but if there's anything I haven't answered in the thread anywhere, just send me a PM and I'll get back to you.

I haven't thought about payload specific labels but that's not a bad idea. I haven't really gotten any takers for my idea of making a nice retail-style case for these (turns out I can get blank Switch cart cases pretty cheaply) but it's something I think would be fun so I'm doing it anyways. Going to do up some nice cover art and instructions based on the picture in my first post. This also solves the problem of packaging since it'd be safe to ship in a bubble envelope if it's in a hard case.

As long as I'm getting the case insert printed I might look at specific payload stickers, but I wouldn't be able to use the name of anything that's trademarked etc. so it might just be a single color sticker you can use to differentiate or something. Open to suggestions.

Again, thanks everyone for your support! I'm hoping to ship the first batch of 10 tester units next Friday or the following Monday so stay tuned!

 

[macia10]

As long as I'm getting the case insert printed I might look at specific payload stickers, but I wouldn't be able to use the name of anything that's trademarked etc. so it might just be a single color sticker you can use to differentiate or something. Open to suggestions.

Just slap your dragon logo on this and your fine! As ppl wil probably change payload from time to time still, there is no point of specific payload stickers IMO ;]