Re: Portable Gaming PC (PGPC) - pics & video
Hi, I'm relatively new to this website, but I've always had a slight interest in making my own portable/handheld gaming units. It's been one of those things where I've told myself that "oh, I'm sure I'll get around to making one of those... someday". Seeing your handheld touchscreen PC finally pushed me over the edge and I've decided that I want to make my first build something similar to your setup based on one of the new AMD fusion mini ITX boards housed in a vacuum molded plastic case. I'm pretty sure I can figure everything else out, but the power supply issues have thrown me for a loop. I'd like to make my unit battery powered (maybe I should also start lifting weights at this point to prepare myself
) and I see that even though you decided not to use batteries in the end, you designed the unit with battery power in mind. I'd like to ask how you integrated your battery/charging setup with your mobo's power interface? Pics would be awesome but aren't really needed, I'd just like to know if you fed a computer PSU via your battery/charging setup or if you did a custom job to get all the connections/voltages needed.
I'd also like to give my praise for an awesome concept/design/execution. I've always looked upon tablet PCs with disdain, they just seem useless to me. If I want to do any real work, I have both a desktop and a laptop that would be better suited for that. If I just wanted something portable to browse the web or watch videos on then I'll just pull out my cell phone. A handheld touchscreen device that has a built in gamepad on the other hand? That's pretty neat, but it's been done before by Nintendo already. But wait, now you're telling me that it can also play all of my emulators and PC games, browse the web, play movies, and can be connected to a home theater setup with a couple of cables and serve as an HTPC? Pure, distilled, genius. My hat's off to you sir.
EDIT: after lurking more I found where you linked to mini-box.com for your PSU, nice! I was looking for something EXACTLY like that.
Hi, I'm relatively new to this website, but I've always had a slight interest in making my own portable/handheld gaming units. It's been one of those things where I've told myself that "oh, I'm sure I'll get around to making one of those... someday". Seeing your handheld touchscreen PC finally pushed me over the edge and I've decided that I want to make my first build something similar to your setup based on one of the new AMD fusion mini ITX boards housed in a vacuum molded plastic case. I'm pretty sure I can figure everything else out, but the power supply issues have thrown me for a loop. I'd like to make my unit battery powered (maybe I should also start lifting weights at this point to prepare myself
) and I see that even though you decided not to use batteries in the end, you designed the unit with battery power in mind. I'd like to ask how you integrated your battery/charging setup with your mobo's power interface? Pics would be awesome but aren't really needed, I'd just like to know if you fed a computer PSU via your battery/charging setup or if you did a custom job to get all the connections/voltages needed.I'd also like to give my praise for an awesome concept/design/execution. I've always looked upon tablet PCs with disdain, they just seem useless to me. If I want to do any real work, I have both a desktop and a laptop that would be better suited for that. If I just wanted something portable to browse the web or watch videos on then I'll just pull out my cell phone. A handheld touchscreen device that has a built in gamepad on the other hand? That's pretty neat, but it's been done before by Nintendo already. But wait, now you're telling me that it can also play all of my emulators and PC games, browse the web, play movies, and can be connected to a home theater setup with a couple of cables and serve as an HTPC? Pure, distilled, genius. My hat's off to you sir.
EDIT: after lurking more I found where you linked to mini-box.com for your PSU, nice! I was looking for something EXACTLY like that.
