Nintendo Switch Joy-Con Tear-Downįor the Joy-Con tear-down, we selected the right side (red) Joy-Con as it’s host to an NFC and IR sensor. It’s simple, and largely a plastic enclosure that’s built to host the Switch proper. This board is everything that’s in the dock, other than a few springs, an LED, and a charging PCB. The VLI controller supports faster controller than the baseline USB standard, and the ST controller is some sort of ARM-based MCU (we are not positive exactly what). Flipping it over, the PCB hosts an ST MCU and VLI USB controller (VLI VL210-Q4), a USB3.0 hub controller that supports rapid charging via USB. We can remove the PCB by disconnecting both, then lightly pulling on the securing prongs to release the PCB. Separating the PCB enclosure from the housing leads us to a data ribbon cable and to an LED power cable. Once these are removed, a set of sunken screws can be accessed within the dock. Removing these four screws will unveil the PCB, and the next four (lower part of the plastic) will begin the process of splitting the dock in half. There are 8 Y-drive/tri-wing screws in the back of the dock, four of which hold the PCB housing to the controller board hosting the 2x USB2.0, 1x USB3.0, and 1x HDMI ports. We’re just taking the thing apart for fun, frankly. Nintendo Switch Dock Tear-DownĪs previously, this isn’t a tutorial and we don’t recommend doing this. This will help reduce the chance of reassembling and leaving out a screw. We would also suggest a magnetic mat so that you can draw an outline of the Switch and then track the specific locations of the screws. The iFixit Pro Tech Toolkit ($70) contains the uncommon Y-drive screws, alongside spudgers, pliers/priers, and other useful tools for PC building or disassembly. Rubbing alcohol if removing thermal compound.Phillips Head screwdrivers (small + medium A1 sizes needed).We used our iFixit Pro Tech Toolkit for this teardown (they also sponsored the coverage, as we needed some specific pieces for this). The Nintendo Switch Joy-Con and Dock require a few tools. Nintendo Switch Disassembly: Tools Required The article carries on after the embedded video: The Nintendo Switch dock sells for $90 from Nintendo directly, and so you’d hope it’s a little more complex than a simple docking station. Today, we’re tearing down the Switch right Joycon (with the IR sensor) and docking station, hoping to see what’s going on under the hood of two parts largely undocumented by Nintendo. The first part of our tear-down series featured the Switch itself – a tablet, basically, that is somewhat familiar to a Shield – and showed the Tegra X1 modified SOC, what we think is 4GB of RAM, and a Samsung eMMC module. While we work on our R7 1700 review, we’ve also been tearing down the remainder of the new Nintendo Switch console ($300).
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