Kinetoscope Cartridge & Flash Board

joeyparrish·kinetoscope·hardware/cart.kicad_pcb

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About the Kinetoscope Cartridge & Flash Board

Kinetoscope Cartridge & Flash Board is an open source PCB design by joeyparrish, published on GitHub under the MIT license. It is a 2-layer board measuring 83.7 × 64.5 mm, with 24 components from 9 distinct parts.

Other key parts include the 74LVC138APW,118, MCP1827S-3302E/EB, SN74LVC8T245PWR and S29AL016J55TFIR20. By type, the board carries 15 capacitors, 8 ICs and 1 connector.

It belongs with the retro computing designs in this gallery.

From the project

Kinetoscope: A Sega Genesis Video Player

The hardware is composed of several stacking boards, each of which hosts a set of subcomponents. The subcomponents are each in a subsheet, exposing hierarchical pins and buses to the parent sheet.

One of these boards includes a microcontroller with WiFi, and runs its own firmware to take commands from the Sega ROM. See firmware in the ../firmware/ folder.

The first working prototype looked like this:

Kinetoscope Cartridge & Flash Board, from the project README — From the project README

Main components on the Kinetoscope Cartridge & Flash Board

74LVC138APW,118 MCP1827S-3302E/EB SN74LVC8T245PWR S29AL016J55TFIR20

Kinetoscope Cartridge & Flash Board bill of materials (BOM)

24 components, 9 distinct parts.

Qty	Part	Footprint	Refs
1	74LVC138APW,118 74LVC138A	TSSOP-16_4.4x5mm_P0.65mm	U1
1	MCP1827S-3302E/EB	TO-252-3_TabPin2	U2
5	SN74LVC8T245PWR 74LVC8T245	TSSOP-24_4.4x7.8mm_P0.65mm	U3, U4, U5, U7, U8
1	S29AL016J55TFIR20	TSOP-I-48_18.4x12mm_P0.5mm	U6
1	X6521FV-2x26-C85D32 ~	PinHeader_2x26_P2.54mm_Vertical	J1
12	C0603C223K4RACTU 22nF	C_0603_1608Metric	C1, C6, C7, C8, C9, C10, C11, C12 +4
1	CL31A476MPHNNNE 47uF	C_1206_3216Metric	C2
1	GRM188Z71C475KE21J 4.7uF	C_0603_1608Metric	C3
1	C0603C105K4RACTU 1uF	C_0603_1608Metric	C4

Kinetoscope Cartridge & Flash Board design files

The KiCad project lives in the joeyparrish/kinetoscope repository on GitHub; these links point at the commit this page was built from.

Layouthardware/cart.kicad_pcb
Schematichardware/cart.kicad_sch

Kinetoscope Cartridge & Flash Board: common questions

How big is the Kinetoscope Cartridge & Flash Board?

The Kinetoscope Cartridge & Flash Board measures 83.7 × 64.5 mm, has 2 copper layers and is 1.6 mm thick.

How many components are on the Kinetoscope Cartridge & Flash Board?

24 components, from 9 distinct parts. The full bill of materials is listed on this page.

Where can I download the Kinetoscope Cartridge & Flash Board design files?

From the joeyparrish/kinetoscope repository on GitHub, which has the KiCad layout and the schematic; the links under Design files point to each one.

Can I use the Kinetoscope Cartridge & Flash Board design in my own project?

Yes, under the terms of its MIT license, which joeyparrish chose for the repository.

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