Youtuber Millomaker has been on an extended journey to create a transportable model of the XBOX 360. Amongst different issues, the method includes reducing the console’s motherboard to items, and the tinkerer is getting near the scale of a Nintendo Change. Try the (very spectacular) video beneath.
Turning older consoles into transportable variations of themselves is a well-liked problem amongst tech-savvy folks, and there are many schematics on-line that present you methods to do it for e.g. the NES or the SNES. However doing it on more moderen generations has been a reasonably vital problem.
Millomaker began engaged on a transportable design for the XBox 360 roughly 7 months in the past. Many a motherboard has been killed by this madlad within the title of miniaturizing the console.
Nevertheless it’s a really fascinating course of to observe. In his most up-to-date video (beneath) he reveals how he’s been capable of lower the motherboard much more, shift parts round for extra environment friendly use of house, and join the outcome to a transportable HDMI display. Earlier movies confirmed him designing the entire mission, and changing the common A/C enter with a battery.
The present outcome appears to be like sufficiently small that it might slot in a (thick) Nintendo Change. The youtuber has acknowledged he’ll subsequent work on integrating the controller into the transportable design, and discover a extra compact strategy to cool the motherboard.
Dimension comparability of the miniaturized motherboard vs the unique XBox360 MB
The entire course of within the video beneath:
If you happen to like that exact model of motherboard torture, you can even try the identical form of abuse utilized to a Sega Saturn.
Supply: through logic-sunrise
