Hello everyone, I decided to dust off this old project. I’m recreating the Sanyo ICC-808d calculator board that I can get manufactured, I also added my own electronics that you can see at the top. I know that’s not accurate to the movies but it is common in replicas nowadays. My only dilemma I encountered is trying to added the faux circuit traces so if anyone has any experience I’d like to hear it!
(It’s not yet finished, but here is my progress)
Here are the pcbs I got in today, now to start the process of assembling them
After receiving the physical boards I’ve noticed some things that needed to be changed (staring at a computer screen can do so much). So I’ve made those changes and reordered. I got all the solder joints with a ENIG finish along with the edge connector so it’ll be more accurate to the Sanyo board
Hopefully this is a step in the right direction
After the kinks are worked out I’ll throw a interest post up if anyone would like to purchase, at the moment I’m trying $80-$100 for a full kit if that seems like a fair price
New boards are here and they’re gold plated 
I would definitely buy that from you!! I’ll keep my eye out for interest post!! Looks awesome so far!!
If you do screen accurate colors let me know id grab a few.
I would also be interested in a full kit or two.
Same here! If you make these for sale, I would definitely get a few!
Currently I am doing a build from an actual working Sonyo 808D, and trying to figure out what to use for a sister board. So I could definitely use one of your sister boards!!
They look great!! Keep up the good work friend!
Now that I think about it. If you’d like, I can send you in-depth pictures of my sonyo 808D if that would help you at all!!
I’d say that’s a fair price, just make the colors a little more accurate and I’m down to buy one from you. This should be way better than Ectolabs where you don’t have to wait a year and pay an arm and a leg.
Weird comment to make about EctoLabs. I don’t think anyone has **ever **had to wait a year for an order from him. He does limited runs, as he is a one man operation with a full time day job, so if you miss out on a run then you may be waiting a while for the next one, but this a luxury hobby, so suck it up. As for his pricing, it’s very fair, and on a pair with vendors of a similar standard of product. Again, luxury hobby.
I can understand the frustration though. I too was in the market for the '84 gizmo and his latest run did it as a raffle rather than a preorder. Didn’t win the raffle, so it means possibly waiting another year for another run. Absolutely no shade against their quality, and huge props to them for having the sense to stop taking orders to manage backlog rather than just constantly taking orders and pushing things out 6~24 months with hardly any communication. I just wish they were easier to come by.
Regardless of EctoLabs, having more decently-accurate alternatives on the market is a good thing for the market as a whole. I too would likely be interested in what OP is offering if the board colors are changed to Sanyo brown. :garrett:
Thank you, my sentiments exactly. People are mistakenly interpreting my comment as somehow poopooing ectolabs. It’s more or less poopooing the wait time in between runs so it would be nice to have alternatives.
This update is long overdue but I thought I’d share my progress. I got one gizmo done, it’s nice however I’m not entirely happy with how it turned out. Back to the drawing board.
For the next version I’m keeping with the same arduino nano, but adding VFD display tubes instead of the acrylic tubing. I’m looking into doing a “multi-color” pcb from pcbway to make it more accurate to Gb1, not Afterlife!
Thank you everyone for following and I apologize for how long this is taking, life has gotten lifey lately
Hi,
Would you share the gerber files or the brd file?
Thanks in advance