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CNCDan
Australia
Приєднався 1 вер 2011
3D printing, CNC, Electronics and DIY projects
Testing Switch emulation on the ZenDeck!
In this episode I'm upgrading the controller PCB's to the latest revision, having a first look at the power management system and finally testing out some emulation on the ZenDeck!
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Testing Bazzite OS on the ZenDeck
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Now that the prototype of the ZenDeck is up and running, I thought I should test to see if Linux really is a better option for a handheld gaming PC than windows is! Customize your designs with Cheap & quick PCB/3D printing/CNC machining at PCBWay: www.pcbway.com/ Join the discord! discord.gg/dBpDWgs625 Follow me on Twitter! CNCDan Help support the channel! www.buymeacoffee.com/cncdan
Building the first ZenDeck Prototype!
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In this episode I'll be assembling and testing the first prototype of the ZenDeck! Theres still a bit of work to do but the project is progressing nicely! Let me know if there's any games you'd like to see me test in a future episode! Customize your designs with Cheap & quick PCB/3D printing/CNC machining at PCBWay: www.pcbway.com/ Join the discord! discord.gg/dBpDWgs625 Follow me on Twitter! t...
Testing Batocera on the Zimaboard 832!
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In this video I'm testing out the ZimaBoard 832 to see if it makes a good retro emulation box! Let me know in the comments if you'd like to see me test a GPU on it to see if it improves performance for the more demanding titles! ZimaBoard Official Shop: bit.ly/4biaKlx ZimaBoard Media Server: bit.ly/49Rh7ek ZimaBoard on Amazon: amzn.to/4bePcWH Join the discord! discord.gg/dBpDWgs625 Follow me on...
Electronics Work Bench Upgrade - Flexispot E7 #australia #flexispotau
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In this video I'm upgrading my electronics work station to be more ergonomic, creating more room for small parts storage and even building a simple solder fume extractor! Thanks to Flexispot for providing the table for this video! Check the Flexispot Australia store and get your setup! Shop Now:bit.ly/3xIuTTJ Join the discord! discord.gg/dBpDWgs625 Follow me on Twitter! CNCDan Help ...
Beginners guide to game controllers with Arduino
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In this video I'll cover some of the basics of building a game controller with Arduino and test out the Xinput library to see if I can get rumble working for my project! This is 4th video in the ZenDeck series so make sure you check out the previous videos if you're new to the project! Links mentioned in the video: Arduino XInput Tutorial: www.partsnotincluded.com/how-to-emulate-an-xbox-control...
The ZenDeck Project - Episode 3 - Connecting the Display
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Welcome to the ZenDeck project! This is a DIY handheld PC game console that I'm designing from the ground up! In this episode I'll get the display connected up to the Mini PC and perform some initial power tests to ensure my plan for battery management will be sufficient. Here's a link to the display I'm using in the project: www.waveshare.com/8dp-caplcd.htm Customize your designs with Cheap & ...
Arduino USB Touchpad - ZenDeck - Episode 2
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After the last episode an overwhelming number of you reqested that I add a trackpad to the design. In this video I'm going to investigate some of the options we have for such a small trackpad. If you're interested in using this touchpad in your own projects, make sure you let me know in the comments and I will finish off the code so I can put it up on Github for you! Here's a link to the trackp...
tomtoc Arccos-G47 Travel Bag Review
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Now that the NucDeck is complete, I needed a safe way to take it places so when tomtoc asked me to review their Arccos-G47 Travel Bag I jumped at the opportunity. This bag is designed for larger handheld gaming devices such as the Steamdeck, ROG Ally and the Lenovo Legion Go. But will it fit the slightly unusual shape of the NucDeck? Tomtoc also offers a two year warranty if you register your p...
NucDeck Release Trailer
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Now that the NucDeck is officially finished, I thought It would be fun to go back and make a "trailer" style video for the project! If you missed any of the previous videos make sure you go back and check them out! Part One: ua-cam.com/video/xVYYCx3Qt4Y/v-deo.html Part Two: ua-cam.com/video/nOXd3axX4fw/v-deo.html Part Three: ua-cam.com/video/yHMnScoKIOE/v-deo.html Part Four: ua-cam.com/video/rP...
NucDeck - Episode 9 - Battery Managment
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Hi guys, thanks for watching! This is the final update on this project where we finish off the battery managament system. Huge thanks if you've made it this far through the series, your support means more to me than you could imagine! I will get the last of the files up onto the github in the coming days so if you wish to tackle this massive project yourself, you can! If you missed any of the p...
The Retrolite CM4
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Here's a short video just to give you a bit of a history as to how the Retrolite became a thing, and how I ended up spending two years of my life working on making it a reality! Here's a link to Stonededge's youtube channel where you can check out the projects he's working on now! www.youtube.com/@stonededge And here's a link to the video on the Wii Spii: ua-cam.com/video/A9R8gJrPmA8/v-deo.html...
Designing a Handheld PC Gaming Console - Part 1
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Designing a Handheld PC Gaming Console - Part 1
NucDeck - The DIY PC gaming handheld - Episode Eight
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NucDeck - The DIY PC gaming handheld - Episode Eight
DIY Smart Home Control Panel With Raspberry Pi
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DIY Smart Home Control Panel With Raspberry Pi
NucDeck - The DIY PC gaming handheld - Episode Seven
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NucDeck - The DIY PC gaming handheld - Episode Seven
The ULTIMATE DIY Clone Hero Controller
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The ULTIMATE DIY Clone Hero Controller
NucDeck - The DIY windows gaming handheld - Episode Six
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NucDeck - The DIY windows gaming handheld - Episode Six
NucDeck - The DIY windows gaming handheld - Episode Five - Files Available!
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NucDeck - The DIY windows gaming handheld - Episode Five - Files Available!
NucDeck - The DIY windows gaming handheld - Episode Four - Games Testing
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NucDeck - The DIY windows gaming handheld - Episode Four - Games Testing
NucDeck - The DIY windows gaming handheld - Episode Three - Connecting the display
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NucDeck - The DIY windows gaming handheld - Episode Three - Connecting the display
NucDeck - The DIY windows gaming handheld - Episode Two
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NucDeck - The DIY windows gaming handheld - Episode Two
NucDeck - The DIY windows gaming handheld - Episode One
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NucDeck - The DIY windows gaming handheld - Episode One
Meghan Trainor - I Believe In Santa Xlights 2022
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Trans-Siberian Orchestra - Wizards in Winter xLights 2022
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Trans-Siberian Orchestra - Wizards in Winter xLights 2022
David Guetta, Bebe Rexha - I'm Good Blue Xlights 2022
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David Guetta, Bebe Rexha - I'm Good Blue Xlights 2022
I’m following you from Paris in France. Your videos are the best DIY series. I’m also interest for the kit when it will be available to build my handled consol using miniforum EM780 board
Great work on the power management board ! I would be interested to by the design or the complete board
Absolutely awesome handheld console, amazing. Are you selling any by chance? ... My English isn't very good, so I didn't understand everything in your video. Greetings.
Yes. Why noy? Drifting away, I would love to see a more in dept video in the case design, as I am doing one for myself, and can't figure out how to adequately do one.
is there any way to "overclock" this to get higher than 100hz report rates? I'd be willing to spend up to 70 dollars on a part that would get 250hz+ for a single touch in this form factor
5:45 Yeah, I have a different display module (one that I bought cheap from AliExpress with "ears" mounting holes on the control board that are the same size as the screen) and it reacts the same - it restarts every time I tap into game mode. do you find how fix it or its just driver issue and cant be fixed?
I've had a couple of people comment in the last few days that there was a recent fix for this issue. I haven't had a chance to try it again have a go of updating to the latest version as it may fix your issue.
@@cncdan i download and instal latest version - at same day as i comment above) so maybe for my screen its not fixed(
Hey Dan! Just found your project again due to the yt-alghorithm :) looked at part one & two while starting my own project Congratz on the final trailer, you did an amazing job! Your way of development is on it‘s own level! All my respect to your flawless work and still keeping up the open source philosophy! A true gem of a person for the community Best of wishes Lol2945 / Raven0606 Creator of RyzenDeck
PS: can‘t wait for the final zen-deck!
Could you have used a standard HDMI cable with a 90° bend instead of relaying via FFC?
Hey man could you consider building a windows tablet for your next build, please. Using a laptop mobo or mini PC maybe
I found your channel while looking for small touchpad for my own controller project and I am very impressed with your work and I have a question. Would you consider using the motherboard of the Minisforum EM780 for the future project or could its small size be a problem due to the display?
I believe when you tested this the patch for touch gestures for gamescope was broken hence the restart on touch. i think this might be fixed soon as touch gestures are being decoupled from gamescope and handled by HHD instead
are you also including the cnc file? and would it work on the shopbot?
I would like to build a console, so how much did everything in it cost you? if you can tell me
Gonna be taking the guts from an original SG PS2 controller and maybe adding a usb mode with a R-Pi or something so I can use it on my PC too, and putting them all in my old squire telecaster I did a low-budget build on forever ago. Wish me luck. Removing the fingerboard on a lacquered neck to remove the truss rod has always been really challenging for me. Hopefully I can save the beautiful "tree of life" inlayed fingerboard and dont need to cut a new one. Everything else should be pretty easy nothing more than extending wires and soldering. Adding extra routing under the pickguard shouldnt need to be too precise either so long as it is covered by the pick guard. Your video helped me a bit with neck routing. Thanks. I have very little but some luthier experience
If you dont need it then give it away to your subscribers..
So any thought on getting these PCB files on Github?
They will be one day. I'm keeping the whole project closed source at least until its finished. If I decide to make it a kit I will keep it closed until the kit is released (simply to try and stop someone else beating me to production) and then open everything for those who are brave enough to build their own from scratch!
still based on Ryzen 7 5700U? Did you know that this is a rebranded older 4000 series that is based on old Zen 2 cores and an old Vega iGPU? Maybe it's worth changing it to Ryzen 7 6800U (Zen 3+) with 680M (12 CU; RDNA 2.0) or Ryzen 7 7840U (Zen 4) with 780M (12 CU; RDNA "3.0" - same as 680M)?
I'd love to upgrade it at some point, but this was the best I could get easily at a reasonable cost point in Australia. It does everything I need it to at this stage but a bit more power in the future wouldn't be a bad thing!
Who have you worked for before?
What a fantastic complement, thankyou! I haven't ever worked in the industry but I do design work on large machinery for a living!
dude ryujinx is better emulator than yuzu the reason why nintendo never attack rujinx because they dont have a paywall like how there a new 3ds emulator called lemon 3ds nintendo emulation will never end there all ways people working on a emulator
Fair enough! I don't really do any Switch emulation usually, so I'd only given Yuzu a try first because I'd heard of it!
Sorry nintendo love that 😂😂
I thought it was appropriate 🤣
I am looking for the smallest touchpad with a joystick(USB), because I my hands do not have a good muscle moving. This project is very meaningful for me. Awesome. looking forward to the next video.
Glad you're enjoying it! I haven't got the trackpad software fully finished yet but when I do, it should be easy enough to build your own!
Great to see the enig finish, also damn sexy power board!
Yes, its working much more reliably than the HASL finish on the first set!
I saw your first vid on the zen deck and have been catching up and god this is cool! I love electrical engineering and I love how you make it easy to follow along
Glad you're enjoying it!
@@cncdan really am mate. I thought why has no one done this and searched and you had
Amazing looking battery/power management board, would love to be able to buy designs or complete part!
Noted! Thanks!
So how do i make one? ❤️
You either build my previous design which is open source and available on Github right now, or you wait until this one is complete!
@@cncdan oh! I tried to find model files to print, but failed miserably lol. You've done a really good job.
Wicked progress 🎉
Thankyou!
Great work. You should sell kits so that everyone can assemble their own board, with the power and price variables that exist, to be able to enjoy the fantastic work you have done.
No, do not
I've designed this one with the intention of making it more suitable to be a kit. It will all just depend on how much interest there is and the final cost!
Def interested in the PMB!
Noted! Thanks!
Man that battery management board is class act
Thankyou! I'm keen to give it a proper test soon!
I can't imagine it being hard, a potato runs better than any Nintendo product. Great games overpriced junk hardware.
Switch emulation is a pretty hefty task actually
Yeah, emulating anything requires far more power than the original system had!
Man these videos just get better and better! If you ever plan to sell this as a kit, i would be so down to buy it! And if you can find a way to give it an HDMI output, even better!
Thanks! It does have a HDMI and a display port exposed at the top of the device (although the HDMI is occupied by the internal display). There's nothing stopping you from just unplugging it though!
Very interested!! Would love to make a zen deck and fiddle with other handheld designs!
Go for it! Plenty of people on my discord group are having a go of their own versions!
What about using "joycons"? like www.aliexpress.com/item/1005006854140626.html
I would love to see that power management board become available i may be outing myself as a potential competitor but ive been working on a handheld gaming setup myself not nearly as far along as this it looks amazing btw and ive been struggling to workout a powere supply and charging system on a very tight budget lol keep up the amazing work sir you already helped me out with the video about building the controller
The power management is hands down the most complex part of a project like this. I'm definitely hoping to be able to sell a few but I'm unsure how much they will cost yet. The bq25792 IC is almost $10AUD alone!
@@cncdan well like i sed i for one would be interested if u can nail it down the most strait forward options if looked at so far have been using a ups board if only because there fairly inexpensive but with what you've got there would be so much more compact well good luck and thanks for the response ill keep watching if u keep posting And if i get mine running it will be atleast partially thanks to you
Please, make support for configurating the handheld on Linux, if someone will try to make this project and installs Linux (Fedora/Ubuntu/Arch) they'll soon find out that configuration apps aren't working under Wine on Linux, so you can make simple .sh program or CLI script to make their experience better
The control of the LEDs over serial is very simple. I haven't got much experience coding for Linux but if someone can point me in the right direction of what SDK to setup etc I should be able to make it work.
@@cncdan I think that probably best choice will be making an app with GTK and using PySerial as serial communication utility, or you can try Qt with Qt serial port module as this is a Cross-platform one, so you can make single programm and build it for several platforms
It's amazing how powerful mini pcs have become in the last year.
They sure have! This one is actually a couple of years old, but it's still a great performer for the price!
@@cncdan how much was it?
@@McRootbeer I paid $489AUD. The newer systems that I could easily get were almost double that. Prices elsewhere probably aren't as bad but in Australia the price difference just wasn't justifiable for me.
Awesome progress
Thanks!
Oh it would be kinda cool if you could display some kind of game information through the LEDs at the sticks. I know this is a one of a kind device (for now) but I can imagine a bunch of things: Changing color depending on health Acting like a circular health bar RPM Guage in racing games Or even in Windows: Having it display CPU Utilization on one Stick and RAM usage on the other Stuff like that
Yes, I like this idea! I probably don't have the necessary programming experience to make that happen, but the control of the lights over serial is very simple so anyone that does know how to pull information like that from a game would have no trouble controlling the lights!
Once the power management is working I am planning to have the LED's start blinking red when the battery is getting low. That will only work if the program is open in the background though!
@@cncdan That's already a very good use for the LEDs!
That is coming along so nicely, Already looks better than my AYN Loki.
Thankyou!
Hey Dan, will you ever release all the source, files etc? This on is on another whole level compared to your previous one! Would love to try it on my own
Basically the plan is to get the design finished and investigate making a kit of parts. If the kit proves financially viable I'll produce a small number of kits and then open source the design as I release the kit. I'm basically trying to avoid having someone come in and steal the design and beat me to manufacture. If I decide the kit isn't worth the hassle I'll just open the design and move on!
@@cncdan Cool! Absolutely, I'll get the kit ASAP once you release it, great project Dan!
Very interesting work!
Thanks!
When I saw the first video I was very skeptical, and yet here we are and the progress has been downright amazing. Great stuff Dan, genuinely appreciate all you are doing here, been an excellent project to track.
Glad you're enjoying it! It definitely is a monster of a project so I'm not surprised by the initial scepticism 🤣
Does anyone know how to make joycon controllers using arduino? Am making a handheld and also posting videos of the progress on youtube if you gyes wanna check it out❤
Look into using esp32's in your controller halves. There are a few examples of people building wireless controllers with them. You may need a wireless serial link between the two halves as I don't think you'll be able to connect two Bluetooth controllers at once.
@cncdan oh thats unfortunate 😕, i think if i used and arduino inside my handheld and then make it so that they are connected through pins would be better, because i just want it to look like a tablet and has attachable controllers for the sake of portability and usability in school since i have a bad laptop and this might be able to replace it, thanks Dan! 😊
I am working on a version of handheld just like yours and the power management board would be a god send. Would it be possible to purchase one.
That's a goal I'm aiming for. I still need to finish off testing/troubleshooting my prototype and write some firmware for it. Then I can look into order a batch that are pre-assembled!
Love this series. It would be great if we can buy parts n 3d print cases our self and then assemble everything on our own it would be awesome
That's basically the plan, assuming I can have the PCBs produced and assembled for a reasonable enough cost.
What a great project Dan!! 😅 love the series. If we can order the parts when it's ready it would be great 😊. I can assembly parts and 3d print the case but all the rest what you do is way over my head 😅. So love to see a way to order most of the parts. Pc and display we can order myself
I'll be looking into getting the PCBs pre-assembled once I have a final design so I can work out what the actual cost will end up being. Getting pretty close now!
@@cncdan thanks looking forward to it, I always wanted a device where you can replace the mainboard when it is old with a newer one and you can resuse the shell, display buttons, battery, somewhat like modular device. I think you're project is they one that can do this.. great 😉
Double like for that power management board!
That's my focus for the next couple of weeks now. I want the power management up and running for the next video!
Also interested in a PMB. That or a tutorial on getting the parts and putting it together.
I want to try to build one, this is such a cool project
It will be open sourced eventually, and may even be a kit if there's enough interest!
@@cncdan do you have a date in mind to open source it? Would love to try and reproduce it :D
Such a fantastic piece of DIY tech, but so huge... could there be a "lite" version in the future? with smaller sizes and cheaper and weaker hardware donor
I hope that you will test rpcs3 with armored core 5 and armored core for answer and Xenia with Ace combat 6
I don't own any of those titles sadly! I did look at rpcs3 but I believe the 5700u falls a little short of their recommended system requirements so it may not run many titles well. If I do end up giving it a go with the titles I do own, I'll be sure to make a video about it!
Thank you I greatly look forward to the stress tests these are very similar loads to what I would be using my own for and it's something my steam deck is completely incapable of