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    Thread: Building one's own tangara
Post: RE: Building one's own tangara

Well I've had bad luck with the touch wheels apparently. A while after I got my Tangara functional, the touch wheel started intermittently cutting out and eventually stopped working altogether. From m...
vurpo Hardware 48 4,929 2025-03-06, 09:22 PM
    Thread: Building one's own tangara
Post: RE: Building one's own tangara

I didn't post earlier, but I got my DIY Tangara into a functional state and have been loving it for about a week now! It's still kind of unfinished; I want to either make a fancy case on a resin print...
vurpo Hardware 48 4,929 2025-02-14, 04:42 AM
    Thread: Building one's own tangara
Post: RE: Building one's own tangara

So when looking closer I noticed the display does have the correct amount of rows and columns, but it was drawing shifted a few pixels up and to the left. From what I read online, ST7735 clones do thi...
vurpo Hardware 48 4,929 2025-01-29, 10:07 AM
    Thread: Building one's own tangara
Post: RE: Building one's own tangara

So I got the screens I ordered and soldered one on, and it works correctly (responding to volume buttons and everything) except for a strip of pixels 1 px along the right edge and 2 px along the botto...
vurpo Hardware 48 4,929 2025-01-28, 05:59 PM
    Thread: Building one's own tangara
Post: RE: Building one's own tangara

It lives! The screens I ordered are taking their sweet time getting here, but by all accounts it looks as if I have a functioning mainboard! I ended up doing a new PCB and just trying the FFC connecto...
vurpo Hardware 48 4,929 2025-01-24, 09:25 PM
    Thread: Building one's own tangara
Post: RE: Building one's own tangara

My first attempt at a mainboard was almost a success; by my visual inspection it looks like all the components are making proper contact. Almost! I destroyed two flat flex connectors while trying to s...
vurpo Hardware 48 4,929 2025-01-17, 03:02 AM
    Thread: What is the touch wheel cover?
Post: What is the touch wheel cover?

As someone with just a little experience with electronics and PCB design, I was looking through the KiCad files to try and learn more about this whole thing. I'm curious about how the touch wheel cove...
vurpo Hardware 1 51 2025-01-04, 01:43 AM