citrus3000psi wrote:What were the failure points?
Well, on the first one I had some issues getting the HDMI connector placed just right. In trying to fix it, I ended up accidentally tearing up some of the traces.
The second one went better, but the solder joins securing the body of the Hisense connector were apparently not properly secure. When I tried plugging in the cable it came loose, putting force on the pins and again tearing up a bunch of traces.
On the last one, everything seemed to be in place, but I didn't get any output or even response from the LED. I went through with a multimeter and confirmed that all the pins of the printed connector were making contact with the digital output and that there didn't seem to be any shorts, but I still didn't get any response. Something must have shifted at some point, though, because the last time I tried, it killed my GameCube's motherboard.
Suffice to say, I really didn't have any faith left at that point in my ability to make this project work.