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Start out with MDF forms, vacuum-form styrene plastic around them and this is what you get. Same old process as the last ones.
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Start of the case work. Luckily most of the circles could be cut with a drill press and step bit (perfect for this kind of thing). Everything rectangular was dremeled out and hand filed. I think I spent 3 hours on the screen rectangle alone.
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This is my roommate with my other roommate's Australian Shepherd. He is the most badass dog I have ever seen.
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Back to things. I wanted to have a built-in expansion pak. I ripped apart two expansion paks and desoldered the RDRAM chips inside, and here they are in their cozy new home (literally). Each of those chips is an amazing 4 megabytes or 36megabits of memory.
Fun fact: it's 9 bits wide, and the last bit was used for antialiasing and more z-buffer detail.
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At first I thought it would be fun to wire in a memory card. Well, I screwed it up 3 times in a row. This is a third party cheapo controller, popular because you can use a highly superior Gamecube analog joystick with them. I also had to rewire all the other buttons.
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This was the original plan. Game was going to slide in the back with rainbows and unicorns for everybody. Several things made this a bad idea. Making the case thicker would make it hard to hold, and also require the N64 to run without heatsinks, which was not an option. I ended up using two lithium polymer cells instead.
The final product has some decent heatsinks and a small cooling fan.
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Said heatsinks installed. I've seen some people use hot glue to attach the heatsinks to the board. Yeah.
Since I'm not retarded, epoxy it is. I was able to get away without cutting most of the N64, which is good.
You can also see the chainsaw sharpening files I use for small case details. I have around 8 different files I use.
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Batteries - 7.4v 4700mAh. Haven't added the cooling fan yet. It sits over the RDRAM sink and keeps the entire thing from melting.
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I had planned to use the Playstation screen's original CCFL backlight, but like the current President of the United States, it took too much power and produced a bunch of noise.
In its place are four white LEDs that cut power consumption in half.
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