Photos Of The C3k Disassembled

[akpoff]

I've posted photos of my C3k as I took it apart a while back.  I've finally moved the project from back burner to fully baked.  With all the good discussions going on about hardware mods it seemed like a good time to post them.  

I've posted two albums.  The first is a series of images and (some) stepwise instructions for dissassembling the C3k.

The second gallery is a series of close-up shots of the motherboard.  I tried to capture every part of the motherboard, front and back, to give hardware hackers a quick reference to the C3k without having to open their Z every other day.  To that end I've erred on the side of brightening and extra sharpening.  If any of the images are hard to use, let me know.  I have the originals and can either post a new one with different adjustments, or really blow one up.  At the time I wasn't in the mood to tear apart the LCD.  If the need arises I may tackle that next.

The images are released under a Creative Commons license for non-commercial use.  Feel free to pull them down local or mirror them.

Aaron

[Da_Blitz]

i think its a good idea to start documenting anything we find on the board, there are a lot of test points that could be handy and sockets that are unused for example the u shapped fan of pins under the microdrive or the cluster of 9 square pads.

this infomation could be handy for upgrading the memorey/flash or to add bluetooth. i should really break out the ossciloscope

will post links to parts soon (i have a japanesse site that details the infomation)

[someonehoi]

i think its a good idea to start documenting anything we find on the board, there are a lot of test points that could be handy and sockets that are unused for example the u shapped fan of pins under the microdrive or the cluster of 9 square pads.

this infomation could be handy for upgrading the memorey/flash or to add bluetooth. i should really break out the ossciloscope

will post links to parts soon (i have a japanesse site that details the infomation)
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i have decomposed the LCD parts.
Beware that the LCD's "flat cables" are very soft and quite hard to replug them.

[Da_Blitz]

have to agree with you there, broke a tab off the side of one of the connectors  but it still works. did you get pictures?

[speculatrix]

I've posted two albums.  The first is a series of images and (some) stepwise instructions for dissassembling the C3k.
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website seems to have disappeared

[akpoff]

I've posted two albums.  The first is a series of images and (some) stepwise instructions for dissassembling the C3k.
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Can you try it again?  I just hit it from home and it worked fine.  Email or PM me if you're still having troubles hitting it.

Thanks,

Aaron

[speculatrix]

it's fine now.. excellent and very interesting photos. When you see it all dismantled, you realise there's a lot of stuff packed into a tiny space!