VGA through rpi pico - How many colors possible on border?

[Brocky]

still getting green?
its really a simple circuit it should work easily...
do you have an oscilloscope to check the inputs and outputs of the comparators, and then to the pico?

maybe the plug and wires out to the board are wired wrong at the 6 pin din youre plugging into the cpc?

[eto]

I'm really stuck here.

can you take close pictures of the whole set-up? At least one of the full PCB and one that shows the pins of the monitor connector from the soldering side? 

[orzel]

Hello,

I'm interested in building one. Is there, by any chance, other people interested in France ? We could share pcb fabrication/shipping fees.

[Brocky]

Hello,

I'm interested in building one. Is there, by any chance, other people interested in France ? We could share pcb fabrication/shipping fees.

it cost me like $5 to get 5 boards made and posted to australia from PCBway

[orzel]

That would cost at the very least twice as much from here. But indeed, still less expensive than I thought. I'm more used to 10cmx10cm at jlpcb
Still, if anybody from France wants to pay 1/5th of that, just contact me.

[orzel]

I've moved the proposal to (French speaking) system-cfg.com forum. I propose there the PCB  with or without the 3 converters. The remaining of the bom is easy to source.

But if anyone here still wants one of those, you can contact me in PM and in English. I could probably ship in Europe for not much more than France. Other countries would be complicated, both for payements and shipping. But noone uses CPC outside of Europe, right ?

[eto]

The components might be the most interesting part to share an order.

5 PCBs can be ordered at JLCPCB for 6€ including shipping to Germany. I would expect (but don't know) that it's similar all over Europe.

But at least the comparators need to be ordered at one of the big distributors and shipping will add a lot of cost if you don't order enough to get over the free shipping threshold.

Therefore it might make sense to offer full sets to people who are interested not just the PCBs. That's what I did a few times (other projects) and people appreciated that a lot.

[orzel]

Yes, the comparators need to be bought from big distributors with huge 'minimal' command for free shipping, that's why i offer that. But the whole kit would be a lot harder to do : source all components requiers a lot more time, and also it's more complicated/expensive for shipping. While pcb and comparators can be put in cheap standard letters.

There's not enough interest for this.

[eto]

source all components requiers a lot more time,

The Github repository has links to almost all components on Digikey. 

[orzel]

I've noticed.

And ? I don't see your point.

It still requires lot of times, requires a lot bigger upfront money investment, and it still is a lot more complicated/expensive to ship.
I still don't wanna do that, especially with so few potential people interested.

[Brocky]

I've noticed.

And ? I don't see your point.

It still requires lot of times, requires a lot bigger upfront money investment, and it still is a lot more complicated/expensive to ship.
I still don't wanna do that, especially with so few potential people interested.

i could sell you a spare complete board i have, or the one i have without the vga connector (i didnt order enough!)
but shipping from australia to france isnt going to be cheap...

i ordered 5x the components (including the picos) from digikey all in one order just over the $60 threshold to qualify for free shipping...

[eto]

It still requires lot of times, requires a lot bigger upfront money investment, and it still is a lot more complicated/expensive to ship.
I still don't wanna do that, especially with so few potential people interested.

I answered only to your comment that it would be hard to source all components.

I totally understand that you don't want to spend money upfront. 

[orzel]

i ordered 5x the components (including the picos) from digikey all in one order just over the $60 threshold to qualify for free shipping...

Yeps, too bad. France is as far as it can be from australia 

That's about the prices I have for 5x indeed. I agree it's not a huge saving, but quite some people prefer to pay 1/5 of that..