Why no love for this forum?

[Aux]

I'm gonna start trimming Xbox boards and building truly ridiculous battery packs, *Can'tSayThisOnTV* gcps.

 

[Mister Nickels]

YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!

Go Aux! 'Bout time someone stepped up to the plate!

 

[Ashen]

I just need some damned time...

 

[ShockSlayer]

BATTERY PACKS

Get us some numbers, I would actually attempt an xbox portable if I had a chance at battery powering it.

 

[Zero]

I still think the PS2 has some hidden potential.

 

[Mako321]

Anyone remember the Xbox slim?(Something like that)
Can't find it now because of the real 360 Slim being released, but the headline for Engadget or Gizmodo was something along the lines of "Xbox slim makes the Wii look anorexic"

 

[bud]

Didn't harshboy make an xbox slim?

 

[ttsgeb]

without trimming, the xbox can get down to about 9*9*1
...

but it IS designed like a computer, so it's going to be tough to find things you can toss out.

Battery pack wise, you would need a 12v battery with ~7 amps for every hour you want to run the thing.

For a reasonable battery life, you would probably want a 20 Ah pack

http://www.batteryspace.com/12-8v-lifep ... 200ah.aspx
http://www.batteryspace.com/14.4V-LiNiC ... Packs.aspx

4 of either of these could work:
http://www.batteryspace.com/polymerli-i ... roved.aspx for ~1.5 hours battery
http://www.batteryspace.com/polymerli-i ... roved.aspx for ~3 hours battery

Basically, you're looking at $200+ for a smaller battery pack, and it'd still likely be larger than a DS just for the battery pack.

You CAN ditch the dvd drive, and EASILY, at that, and if you can afford to throw money at an IDE SSD, you can cut down on size and power consumption A LOT between the two.

http://www.google.com/products/catalog? ... NoBEPMCMAc

You need to be careful, as a lot of IDE "SSD"s on the market now, could be CompactFlash cards, and from what I hear, CF doesn't play well with the xbox.

A laptop configuration with no battery, and controller ports could likely be built for under $200 (and even in a single afternoon).

Sadly, though, to build anything actually portable, you could very easily, and very quickly end up spending $1000 or more on the project, and would have a Heck of a time selling it.

 

[βeta]

Here is the mini xbox you are looking for.

http://hackaday.com/2009/08/19/xbox-cra ... k-package/

 

[Tchay]

I still think the PS2 has some hidden potential.

MY THOUGHTS EXACTLY.

There is a possibility of making an Envision-sized PS2 portable. Just looking at the mobo, it looks tough, but maybe doable.

But I think portablizing is now going to shift over to the Wii. The PS2 slims just aren't any getting cheaper online for some reason, and Xbox's are enormous AFAIK. But I am shocked at how cheap wii mobos have become online. They are getting close to gamecube pricing. And the Wii is small.

 

[DefectX11]

I'm doing a PS2 portable, just after a finish my PS3 portable. I'm stuck between using a fat console (for the HDD) or the slim (size, and I've got batteries built for it)

 

[Zero]

Early slims have the IDE points on the motherboard, so you can have both.

 

[DefectX11]

And why haven't I heard about this?!?!?
That makes my life a ton easier. Doesn't the fat guzzle power?

Oh and if you know which model number or revision that has the pinouts let me know. I suppose one could use a 2.5" drive from there with the necessary equipment. Not that I'm out of space but 3.5"-ers are power hungry.
PM me I guess (which would make you an awesome person) because this thread is derailing quickly.

 

[Zero]

Might want to give these threads a read, they are literally like on the top of the first page:

viewtopic.php?f=64&t=8361
viewtopic.php?f=64&t=8623

 

[DefectX11]

Touché, I should've searched...

 

[Prog]

My plan had it using CF cards instead of SD because CF is compatible with IDE, you'd just have to hardwire a CF slot on.

CF is basically an SDD, so I'd agree with him in your case.

 

[ttsgeb]

In other news, if anyone wants to throw an xbox or three at me, I'll see what I can do to chop them down.

I imagine it will be a Heck of a project just to get even a quarter inch off of it, though. :/

 

[DefectX11]

if I come across any I'll let you know. Would be interesting to see what you could actually trim off.