It is not usually I discover myself chuckling at DIY tasks, however YouTuber James Channel obtained a hearty one from me the second he introduced the transportable Xbox he created by sawing one in half, slapping controllers on the facet and hot-glueing a display on high is able to a whopping 9 minutes and forty seconds of battery life.
As noticed by Hackaday, the half-hour-long video of the YouTuber making a ‘transportable’ Xbox Unique is type of just like the lovechild of a mad scientist, a instructor, and a stream of consciousness. After grabbing an Xbox that is not working, James figures out that the DVD drive is flagging a tough drive difficulty, and fixes the DVD drive by changing a tiny failing resistor with 4 separate, a lot larger resistors, then hot-glueing them down.
That is subsequently adopted by smacking the highest of the Xbox till the disk tray comes out. Then, after fixing the unique Xbox, James takes it aside once more and begins throwing the bits of plastic he does not want on the ground.
Taking aside this plastic is necessary to get the central motherboard and vital elements as small as attainable, and he replaces the massive unwieldy laborious drive with a CompactFlash drive, saving a bit of more room. James tears aside an outdated iPod transportable video dock to slap the audio system and display onto his new handheld Xbox, and saws Xbox controllers in half to connect them to the facet.
That is the sort of video that is: one which demonstrates a depth of extremely technical data about engineering, thrown along with a handsaw, new transistors, and a glue gun. It is all very chaotic in a method that type of makes me wish to strive it myself.
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After a three-week hiatus in the course of the video, “as a result of it was very imply to me and would not work correctly”, James takes one final swing at ending off the transportable, and discovers that seven of the eight Xbox drives he purchased to repair the gadget weren’t working, and that the IDE connector he had fitted did not work. “Aside from the disk drive, it was nearly all my fault.”
The ultimate product is a “transportable monstrosity” (in line with the video’s description), with an open disk drive, sawed-off controllers glued to a motherboard, and it is all held down with duct tape. The Xbox emblem snapped off within the construct, nevertheless it’s fortunately glued onto the ultimate product with no downsides besides maybe a deep sigh from Phil Spencer.
So, if you wish to play slightly below 10 minutes of Halo on the practice whereas strangers stare at you (presumably admiring the fantastic handheld you are rocking), all you want is a scorching glue gun, a handsaw, an outdated Xbox, an iPod video participant, digital instruments, and 7 or eight Xbox disk drives. Or you may simply boot up the Steam Deck.
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