NES in a Cartridge

Step 4 Making the controller board

     For this step, I'm not going to go through all the steps on how to make a PCB, but there are plenty of tutorials out there. So download my design, which was made using diptrace. You can download a freeware version of diptrace from their site. It's a very good PCB design program. Once the board is made, solder all the parts on.
Download the freeware version: http://www.diptrace.com/download.php
Parts:
Atmega168
TLC5940
16MHz crystall
2k Ohm resistor
28 pin ic socket

      Once it's all put together, it is time to cut up the Power Player boards. Start by locating the glob top where all the button inputs go into. Then take your dremel tool with a cut off disc, and cut it right out of the board. In my case, I think I made the board a bit small, so I ended up making the player 2 board a bit larger. The problem with making it so small is that when you attach wires, they tend to rip the traces right off the board. This happened to me about 3 or 4 times with player 1, it came to the point where i actually had to chizel a little bit of the black glob away, just to get more copper to solder onto.
     Now that the glob top is seperated from the PCB, it is now time to  scrape the solder mask off of the necassary copper traces. Use your diagram that you made, or however you chose to remember the pinouts to solder the correct wires to the PCB. Use the diagram ive uploaded to connect the wires. Repeat this same process for player 2.