It was proving harder than I thought due to a lot of unknowns surrounding dimensions of the lens. I was actually experimenting with higher-quality replacement lenses - asking around companies on Alibaba if they could make a higher quality glass replacement (the original is plastic). Switching to an iPhone lens was kind of an accident, honestly. There’s a bulky aluminum capacitor that needed replaced with a smaller tantalum capacitors. Getting to the thinness of an original GBCam cart was a challenge. But that was about a year ago, told myself I’ve improved my soldering skills since then - sure enough, it was much easier this next time. I attempted a repair job on a GBCamera once and damaged the resin and since then, I was nervous about trying again. I was afraid to remove the sensor my first go-around because it’s encased in resin, meaning too much heat can damage it. This allows the “eyeball” to twist around.

The GBCamera has 2 PCBs inside - one for the cart, the other for the sensor and it’s connected with a set of wires inside. The 1st gen used the original sensor board. This is actually the 2nd generation of my mini camera. Early on, I did mess up a trace and sent voltage to the wrong place - fried one Game Boy Camera mapper (the MAC-GBD chip) on accident, but by v2 it was all good. Since he didn’t share the schematics publicly, I reverse-engineered his work as well as the original sensor board to build this fella. As far as the mini camera project, the original schematic for the re-flashable Game Boy Camera cart is by a friend Martin Refseth.

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