(The one on the left is the phob)

PhobGCC is an opensource PCB made to give Gamecube controllers a more consistent experience and a longer life. Excluding shipping and practice, it took me three days as my very first soldering experience. It was fun!

Link for documentation here https://github.com/PhobGCC/PhobGCC-doc

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    1 year ago

    Where did you get your PCBs? I’m tempted to just order a stack of 10 boards and mod a bunch of controllers…

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      1 year ago

      Elecrow. For 5 boards i paid $130 iirc. And I’ve seen some things in the Discord regarding JLCPCB… For example, for one person they completely covered one of the mounting points.

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        1 year ago

        That’s the price for boards with assembly? Or just straight pcbs?

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          1 year ago

          The PCBs. With pre made magnet mounts, tactile z buttons, an already available T3 Gamecube controller, and excluding all the soldering equipment (i already had most of it) and the optional stuff, it costed me about $257, $239 . However that price is not completely right because I split the bill between me and two friends, so it costed more like $85 each. If you don’t have friends interested and you don’t want to sell it might be better to buy a single one on Etsy.

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            1 year ago

            Damn. I’m in for two, and I’m still on the fence about it. I love my GC controllers but don’t play on them enough to justify spending ~$100 on each, even though I really love working on electronics.

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        1 year ago

        I’m more familiar with JLCPCB, though the PhobGCC github recommends Elecrow over JLCPCB for assembly QC reasons.