{"id":1048,"date":"2015-02-27T12:31:04","date_gmt":"2015-02-27T10:31:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nico-maas.de\/wordpress\/?p=1048"},"modified":"2015-02-27T12:31:04","modified_gmt":"2015-02-27T10:31:04","slug":"rasppi-hdmipi-repair-and-vga-upgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nico-maas.de\/?p=1048","title":{"rendered":"[RaspPi] HDMIPi Repair and VGA Upgrade"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sadly, some weeks ago, the Micro USB Port of my HDMIPi broke.
\nI wrote an letter to Alex Eames, which is quite known for HDMIPi<\/a>, RasPi.TV<\/a> and his lattest Kickstarter Project the RasPiO Duino<\/a>.
\nAlex is an awesome guy and gave me his blessings to try to repair that problem myself.
\nWith some flux, a fine solder tip and soem patience, you can get that repaired in no time.
\nAfter succeeding, I created some strain-relief by using two-component epoxy resin to glue it down a bit. Highly recommended!<\/p>\n

As I already saw the unused VGA pinout on the HDMIPi and had the screen taken apart, I decided to hack an old VGA Connector from an even older VGA ATI\/S3 Trio\/Dunno-something-very-old Graphics Card :). I just soldered it in - in it worked right away! However, due to the fact of the included 12mm M3 Spacers and the additional height of the board due to the VGA Connector, I could not attach the back plate of the HDMIPi. I don't recall the exact size, but I think I came up with 18mm M3 Spacers which I only used to replace the original 3 Spacers on the bottom part of the HDMIPi. That way, the buttons of the Display would still be seated nicely and I could access the GPIO Ports of the RPi quite well.<\/p>\n

Some photos:<\/p>\n

\"hdmipi_1\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"hdmipi_2\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"hdmipi_3\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"hdmipi_4\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"hdmipi_5\"<\/a><\/p>\n