Bacteria's N64 portable commission for dmbjunky

There's a worklog on my forum for this project, took 1.5 months to make; it's a portable N64, in a vacuum forming case designed to be similar to GBA style, 7" power hungry screen (!), expansion pack, 4 player, video out, headphone jack, recharge jack, 6 amp battery Li-ion power.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dqq5ZKH-S8Y

It will probably get to around 2.5 hours playtime between charges, as screen takes about 1.5 amps in itself (!), which is a lot; at moment, doing stress test as have the third battery pack inside now which I didn't before.

 

Sweet, but man that fan is loud :-/

 

Small fans aren't overly quiet, and given the space I had for one, had to use a flat one, and cut the sides of the fan housing off too; will endevour on my next N64 to make that quieter; however fans aren't totally quiet from my experience, some are far noisier.

 

love the dreamcast one as well

 

Why dont you do what I was going to do for my portable N64?

I was going to build a circuit or just get an IC from Texas Instruments that when this chip / circuit detects a certain temperature, it will switch on and or control the voltage to the fan, not exceeding a certain voltage to keep it quiet. So it is fully programmable and customisable.

(Like the ones in laptops to regulate the fan basically)

 

Nice idea, if you work out how to do it, please post a guide and schematics.

 

Could get something like this and hack it up a bit, though I realize the fan is huge compared to what is needed, you may be able to use the control signals:

http://www.thermaltakeusa.com/Product.aspx?S=1141&ID=1735

 

Amazing work, I'm stunned!

 

It looks really nice, although I'm not a fan on the paint job for it. The little vent or whatever near the expansion pack isn't straight, so that seems a bit annoying.

Eitherway, good job

 

Wait, let me get this straight your making a n64 portable and giving it to db junkie.

 

I did a commission for dmbjunky, it wasn't a gift!

I prefer the 5" screens, like the GBA style SNES portable i'm working on at the moment, will post there here when done in the next days, so you can see it.

 

bacteria sent a interesting article to you via pm

 

Nice work. For some reason your voice reminds me of Sam Neill.

 

I was going to do it for mine, but it is not finished still...
So it wont be for a while.

But it is just an IC by Texas Instruments I remember, that sent a HIGH or LOW signal to a microcontroller. You adjusted the temperature range, by a resistor or POT. From there, you can make it turn on a light, fan or even start your car if you wanted to :lol:

The hard part is fine tuning it and programming a PIC to do it (as an Arduino is way to big for a portable).

 

The part is AMC6821. It does have a automatic mode or a software control mode. Seems perfect for the job. It outputs a PWM signal.