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Been working on a new design/portable lately. Here's how its shaping up so far.











Pretty much, I'm just waiting on the fed-ex man to bring my batteries and this will be done. ^_^

plan on using an old school gameboy power switch at the top corner??

So the vents are on the sides near the screen, and the feet prevent the console from being placed flat on a table, obstructing the fan?

EDIT: I would put the feet near the top of the case, so that the console is tilted toward the player when placed on a flat surface.

I would call it Cubeboy

HomelandReloaded wrote:So the vents are on the sides near the screen, and the feet prevent the console from being placed flat on a table, obstructing the fan?

EDIT: I would put the feet near the top of the case, so that the console is tilted toward the player when placed on a flat surface.

I think they are here for L-R trigger too.

They are not really feet, they are for the shoulder/z buttons. You can see better here that the vents are on the sides. The fan sucks hot air over the heatsink and blows it upward, so it'll never be blocked, even if its laying down. With the fan mounted on the back it lays pretty flat.



Sorry Mega, no true DMG parts are used here. :/

I'm really amazed about how your case looking professionnal made.

very nice. also just caught up with your "PS2 thing", which looks amazing btw

MockyLock wrote:I'm really amazed about how your case looking professionnal made.

Yes, I agree. The smooth matt finish, the GC logo, and even the controller buttons. (btw I think the controller stick has 8 positions, so ideally would have 4 more arrows around it.) It looks solid too.

Thanks guys!

Ahhh, yes. My "PS2 Thing" thats been done for months. But I've been to lazy to make a proper finished video/post for... Hehe...

There's not much I can do about how the directional pad looks on the controller portion of this one. I frankencased in the front panels from an intec controller. So it is what it is:

MockyLock wrote:I'm really amazed about how your case looking professionnal made.

I'm not amazed, it's expected of ashen. I'm just in the stage of jealousy now.

SNEAKxxATTACK wrote:

MockyLock wrote:I'm really amazed about how your case looking professionnal made.

I'm not amazed, it's expected of ashen. I'm just in the stage of jealousy now.

Since i'm pretty new here, i'm still in first stage of amazing

neat! How did you make the case?

andzlay wrote:neat! How did you make the case?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGBRiYhxRTM

Haha "Tired of buying cheap plastic crap?" ... "Now you can make your own"

Looks cool and what did you use as a model? I guess this is way cheaper than 3D-printing, isn't it?

I make my molds out of bricks of either MDF particle board or thick bricks of polyethylene plastic. Vac forming is way cheaper than purchasing a 3d printer for sure. I build my setup for like $10. All you have to do after is buy the plastic sheet.

Final Stretch!

wow, very nice Ashen.

Random question, do you use tactile switches for the controller buttons, if so, which ones? On my portable that you made (way back when), was that using cut up controller pcb? have you found that tactile switches are better?

This is actually the first portable I've used "tact switches" for all of the buttons. I put the quotes around tact switches becuase I didn't use normal "clicky tacts" I used these:



Normally I use cut up parts of the controller boards with the original membranes attached for most of the buttons. Honestly, I prefer this method. As it gives a much more authentic feel while playing. The only issue with using this method is mounting the damn things in the case, usually I resort to just putting mounds of epoxy around the entire cut portion of the controller and casing to hold them in. Not really the best solution, but hey, it works.

The "tacts" I linked to above give a similar feel to original controller parts, but I can still tell the difference.

We need to measure the force applied to click the membrane switches. Or just test.
Then find those soft tact switches that match the specification we need.

Digikey has tact switches and they show the force required to close the switch, which is why I mention this.

those look pretty nice, but I think I'll go with cut up controller when I get around to doing mine. thanks for the info

wow that one came out pretty damn small! good work as always! thumbs up

I didn't go nuts with tons of pics of this one as its a pretty standard/simple GC portable. Specs of internals are just about the same as the Fusion 3. I can post dimensions later if people want em. Enjoy!







and this one just because.



Vidja:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45Ug0cYbZZQ

I really love it dude. Awesome work.

Introduced yourself as AshenSlayer? Didn't know you guys merged into one entity now?

Yet another awesome GCp.

I ordered a case from cndcustomgaming but it's a bit "thin", do I need to add some plexi inside to make it more durable, what do you use?

Thanks guys! Haha, Emu. The AshenSlayer thing is kind of a running joke now from our meetup at Downing's. It was pretty much summed up that my video's are/were kind of bland/boring and that I needed to spice it up a bit. So yea.. lol. If you saw the finished vid from my PS2p I started my video out how SS always starts his.

Adding stuff inside to make it more durable depends on how the case is made. I'm assuming its something Downing vac formed and CNC'd? If it has a full vac formed back and front you can just do like I do and cut some 3/8-1/2" wide strips of lexan/polycarbonate and superglue them to the inside so the case halves meet up perfectly, you can kind of see how I do this in some of the photo's above, but if you need I can elaborate too.