There are reasons why he chose not to do that. First off, modeling something with the organic geometry of a controller is very difficult to begin with. Secondly, 3d printing would require a flat surface to lay on, so printing one that is so many round edges would require a lot of support material. This support material leaves behind a surface that take quite a bit of effort to clean up. And finally, a boxy shape is the most effective use of internal area. There are so many components that go into making a portable that all take up space. By making it rounder and controller shaped with indents and such, the console will need to be made much larger.I've seen the video as well, seen other projects similar as well.
I thinks it's extremely neat, tho I'd 3D print a more controller shaped box.
No. Not at all.He should put in a raspi with smb share because game loading would be much faster.
Looks legit
Because there are a lot of parts that go into a portable. Go look at his worklog and see how crammed for space everything is on the inside.Awesome but why did he make this portable so thick ? Still ugly looking portable.
Well bitbuilt and youtube is a great place to startI love those portable versions of consoles. I've been reading a lot of forums/thread about portable PS2's and Wii and they all look awesome imo.
For the battery, probably. That thing doesn't run off of sunshines and rainbows, if he wanted it to last longer than 10 minutes you're gonna need a pretty hefty battery. I only skimmed the video, but it doesn't look like he showed the power source, it's likely something along the lines of a laptop battery.Awesome but why did he make this portable so thick ? Still ugly looking portable.
NopeFor the battery, probably. That thing doesn't run off of sunshines and rainbows, if he wanted it to last longer than 10 minutes you're gonna need a pretty hefty battery. I only skimmed the video, but it doesn't look like he showed the power source, it's likely something along the lines of a laptop battery.
He used 2 large Li-Po batteries from batteryspace.com, (not the 18650s @DeoNaught linked, although they are very popular for most portables) with protection circuitry and custom regulators to power the battery.I only skimmed the video, but it doesn't look like he showed the power source, it's likely something along the lines of a laptop battery.
Nope, he's using these: http://www.batteryspace.com/polymer...18-5wh-10-0a-rate-----un38-3-passed-ndgr.aspxNope
These are what he used
http://www.ebay.com/itm/121611468285?_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK:MEBIDX:IT
Thats all he used for batterys, along with the Regs.
Because when you trim something you dont need as much power as you used to,
For example; You can run a wii off of 5V perfectly, after trimming it.
There are reasons why he chose not to do that. First off, modeling something with the organic geometry of a controller is very difficult to begin with. Secondly, 3d printing would require a flat surface to lay on, so printing one that is so many round edges would require a lot of support material. This support material leaves behind a surface that take quite a bit of effort to clean up. And finally, a boxy shape is the most effective use of internal area. There are so many components that go into making a portable that all take up space. By making it rounder and controller shaped with indents and such, the console will need to be made much larger.
He used 2 large Li-Po batteries from batteryspace.com, (not the 18650s @DeoNaught linked, although they are very popular for most portables) with protection circuitry and custom regulators to power the battery.