I Made Some Upgrades To My Retro Atari 130XE Laptop Conversion

A follow up to my Rev 3 video, Rev 4 of the XEBOOK is mostly about what's inside. The previous version worked, but it relied on a lot of off-the-shelf parts wired together, which made assembly slow and fiddly. So I designed a new power and audio management board to consolidate all of that into something purpose-built for this machine. The FujiNet board is now my own design. I was previously buying off-the-shelf external FujiNets and hacking them apart to fit inside the laptop, which worked but was wasteful and awkward. This revision uses a custom internal FujiNet board built for the XEBOOK from the start. That let me put a full size SD card slot on the right side of the machine with push-in push-out access, so you can swap cards without fighting a micro SD with tweezers, and move the FujiNet power switch alongside the main power switch instead of sitting in an odd spot on the right side. The result is a machine that's cheaper to build, easier to assemble, and a lot less of a wiring nightmare than the last revision. Which brings me to the thing I want to ask about. I've started seriously thinking about offering the XEBOOK as a kit. A lot of the work in this revision was aimed at making that possible. I don't have pricing worked out yet and I don't want to promise anything I can't deliver, but if that's something you'd be interested in, leave a comment and let me know. It genuinely helps to know whether there's real demand before I go further down that road. Background for anyone new here: the Atari 130XE was an 8-bit home computer released in 1985. There was never a portable or laptop version. I set out to make one and keep the design as close as I could to how it might have looked if Atari had built one officially, borrowing some design elements from the 16-bit STBOOK they produced a few years later. I named mine the XEBOOK since it has a 130XE motherboard inside and it's an 8-bit XE machine rather than a 16-bit ST. Website: https://xebook.sideburn.com Watch how the XEBOOK was originally built:    • How I made an Atari 130XE Laptop Using Ori...   And the very first model is showcased here:    • I made an Atari 130 XE  into a laptop   Demos shown in video: Second Life Syndrome - by Lamers: https://demozoo.org/productions/271625/