{"id":274,"date":"2025-09-10T23:25:28","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T04:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandlinsplace.net\/?p=274"},"modified":"2025-09-10T23:28:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T04:28:10","slug":"added-a-small-case-to-the-rc2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandlinsplace.net\/?p=274","title":{"rendered":"Added a small case to the RC2014"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I received the “Front Panel<\/a>” and “Rear Panel<\/a>” Kits for my RC2014 Z80 Computer<\/a>. These panels are specifically designed for the Blue Box 110x250x190 mm<\/a> project case, which I had purchased even before I got the initial kit to create the RC2014. I spent the last few days soldering and assembling the panels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The left side is the LCD Driver Module and and LCD Display and the right side is the Front Panel I\/O module and the actual Panel for the front of the case.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

You can see little tabs poking up through the back of the LCD panel<\/a>. Under the little interface board that converts the 2×20 ribbon connector to the 16 pin the module needs is a tab that poked up into the pins of the little interface. It caused problems and I had to clip off that one tab. The Front I\/O panel<\/a> was also a problem, I soldered its ribbon cable header to the wrong side of the board, I had to desolder the header and flip it around behind the front panel so the ribbon cable could connect. My reading skills must be slipping. Though I don’t think the instructions mentioned the tabs on the LCD Display poking into the pins of the cable header.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There was a good bit of head scratching before I fixed those problems. But in the end, the front panel I\/O and LCD Display are working well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The switches on the Front Panel I\/O control the boot up. There are several choices for how to boot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n