His girlfriend let him buy a 3D printer, welding tools, a broken PS4, an old laptop and all this other equipment, and she gives him the space in the house and the time needed to make this, but she would't let him buy a Steam Deck?
I guess there’s room for improvement: - slimmer flat batteries from smartphones - uncased SSD instead of HDD to save space and power - slimmer heatsink and fan from a gaming laptop - moving hdmi -> lvds circuitry to a custom PCB
That's a good list of potential improvements. Cellphone batteries would be great because of the ability to fast charge, their higher capacity and extended longevity. Also, a 1366x768 screen resolution would be good.
A clip of an exploding 18650 would've gone a long way near the end when you're talking about how extreme caution is needed if you're going to weld/solder batteries together. 😂
Yeah you have to have a good soldering iron with a lot of thermal mass, or a lot of watts, I've soldered 18650s and the trick is to get as much heat as fast as you can, max temp on the soldering iron and solder the wires as quick as you can ensuring the solder melts and make a proper connection, the battery has a lot of thermal mass so having 400 Celsius for 3 seconds don't heat them up as much. I use recycled 18650s so nickel strips aren't a option, also for a 18650 to blow up you have to try really hard, pretty much having the battery with a full charge and straight up cooking the cell 😂😂😂
You're the first one after a loooong list of comments, aside from mine to mention Ben Heck. Ben is still doing videos under the "Ben Heck Hacks" channel name and his series on Menards electronics is pretty hilarious. It's like Big Clive but with a little more comedy.
The goal of this project is not to see if it should be done, but if it could be done. Francesco laid the groundwork and I'm sure someone will build upon it.
This is like "Tony Stark building one, in a cave, with a box of scraps," I love the ingenuity of this build. I am quite impressed and look forward to seeing how Francesco and the community iterate on it.
Not diminishing the ingenuity of the creator but I'm reminded of the movie quote, "...so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should."
This is super cool as a concept. But also kind of funny that you can do this essentially by building a handheld gaming PC with similar specs. But it's the ingenuity of maintaining the hardware as is that makes it interesting
I love Peter Knetter but his console projects are the modding equivalent of shitposts 😂 Not a dig on him at all-- he's just going for a different thing entirely besides actual functionality
this is really cool, i dont really think of it as portable, but more as gaming laptop adjacent, (needing to be connected to an outlet with the battery sort of serving as a inbetween outlets) a hdmi splitter inside would be amazing to maintain its tv functionality
Unfortunately, I have seen portables like this before made by Ben Heckendorn so this isn't all that surprising. Ben's portable Xbox units weren't battery powered but very similar styling overall. The one thing I would have done though was swap out the hard drive with an SSD and the SATA units aren't badly priced. This would extend the play time a bit and have faster loads to boot.
1. Charging time was likely due to safety -- to avoid any possibility of thermal runaway. 2. The battery housing is BAD -- the battery heat goes RIGHT into the console and vice versa. 3. Repurposing an xbox 360 power supply is an odd choice -- when a usb c PD3 charger can EASILY supply 150w+ 4. The battery should be a clip on/slide on box on the bottom -- with an optional DC input, as well as possibility for a few common battery standards (eg: tools, laptops, etc) 5. An SSD should have been sued. Obv might require a mod chip, but common ways emulate a HDD for an SSD is much desired to hide the use of an SSD from the OS (but maybe there's anti cheat for this?) 6. The motherboard can be FOLDED to make an even smaller package, as well as concentrating heat to a central heat pipe.
1) charging time is probably a result of repurposing what he had on hands, it's surely ok to look out for temps while charging, but here it seems the batteries are operating at a small fraction of their C power possibility, there's surely room for improvement. Most hobbyist chargers can deploy a thermal probe too, it wold not be that hard to implement I think at this point, charging in 2/3h would really be a turning point in usability. It's unclear if the sistem can run directly from AC, which would be a must have imho
I feel like a lot of Tito’s concerns are addressable by using custom parts. It’s obvious that Francesco was going for off the shelf technology, which is fine it was his design brief and I’d say he succeeded in what he set out to do and tbh I’m struggling to wrap my head around trying to make a portable ps2 let alone making a portable ps4.
Honestly, I prefer this "someone has done a mod to ..." videos over your "Install this mod in this way" videos. Most of these videos are more commercials and not very changeling (of course with exceptions). This "mod" on the other hand ist a masterpiece and entertained me a lot. The 3D printing lets me think about me lagging knowledge about this topic. That has to be changed 🙂
People are always trying to make desktop consoles portable and vice versa. This is reminiscent of the situation with Apple: the iPhone is always getting larger, while the iPad, on the contrary, is becoming more compact. Just a funny observation. But this mod is pretty straightforward and that makes it extremely cool.
This video touches on something i have hoped we would see for quite sometime. A portable mini PC that includes a screen. So you can play emulated games on the go or plugged in.
I can appreciate the work he put into this project. The modular aspect is great. I just feel he handled the battery situation poorly. Welding batteries is well above your average modder’s ability. New batteries with a usb c style charger would greatly improve it but not by much. All this work for 1-1/2 to 2 hours of gameplay seems pointless.
@@AMidgetWalrus I found it, his name is DxTerraria. He made it 4yrs ago, had a 1hr runtime, & weighed 14lbs cus he used a briefcase. Honestly it looks really cool, but I prefer Francesco's design more + less weight
Girlfriend would not let him spend the money on a SteamDeck, or another portable console. That is the problem, replace the girlfriend problem solved. Now on top the project on hand, it's very impressive. In his case, this perfect for him but, if he was selling kits, finding everything, buying it all, batteries, soldering time.... It would be cheaper to buy a Steam Deck, or even a Ally (maybe not a Ally X but the base model). I do admire the work and passion here...
For that loose cover around the screen, I'd say just squirt some super glue in there or use a soldering iron to melt the pieces together. One thing that would make it even cooler is if the controller could dock inside with the lid closed. Then you really could have a complete self-contained unit, albeit with only an hour of play time.
I just traded in my PS4, saving up for a PS5 this holiday season! Regardless, this is an impressive build by a guy that cooks when his girlfriend makes him think outside the box! Very cool!
The final result based on those constraints was spectacular. It would be great to see someone use this as a starting point where they maybe ditch the batteries to save space (or maybe use a different battery source?) and use a mini HDMI monitor to save using a converter board, still all within a custom housing.
The GameCube had a carry handle. The whole set up reminds me of a portable record player. Maybe a handle designed for that sort of thing could be repurposed.
This is quite neat but saying that the screen looks anything but horrible is just silly. I've never seen dark souls look almost as blue as the PS4 home screen I guess maybe it's your camera, but that screen looks horrifically bad and probably should have used an SSD for even lower power consumption and quicker loading. But either way, super awesome concept
here is an interesting note. The Asus ZenScreen 15.6" that can be powered on by USB C works on the PS5. So, no need for a big screen if you need to conserve power. Kind of like having a power bank battery.
I bet with software modding that you could underclock the CPU and get a little bit longer battery life. I'm not sure how much that would affect performance, but a slight underclock could be beneficial.
It's so funny because it's still with the Italian menu Hope he'll put a handle, use an nvme with an adapter, a copper heatsink with a blower fan, a blower fan and a couple of supercaps to see if it charges faster He should try to play Enotria to be even more Italian 😂
Holy shit... I really hope it's not too hard to grab a modded/moddable PS4 for sale because I never bothered to do so and with this, they might bump up in price... 💻🏃♂️💨
I'd like to see something like this in a semi-portable package. It can be shrunk significantly without the batteries and you won't need to worry about it dying at an inopportune moment. A single unit that has the display, console, speakers, etc inside and only needs a power cable to plug into the wall. Maybe move the PSU to a brick like this one to combat heat.
Looks amazing but hopefully he didnt mix cells like it showed at the beginning as different cells have different mAh and thats never a good idea to do also charging 18 18650's no matter the power supply is going to take awhile love the video man
So it has the same battery life as some of the first ever "laptop" computers from the 70's and 80's and is basically as big as them... Can I have four please???
Can't really complain about using 18650s on it, using holders instead of tab welding would be my preferred method for ease of swapping when they eventually go tho, but otherwise a solid choice, they're about as safe as you can get in Li-Ion therms. Dealing with the delicate pouch cells as in phones, some laptops and power banks sure is a much worse hassle, and would gain little in comparison, new 18650 cells, same amount, at 3 Ah each would give you close to 200w/h which is twice of what you're even allowed to carry on a plane, and still give you 2h play time.. Same about the power supply situation: the charging circuit might be way underpowered, but using USB-C would not work properly either. That tops at 100w, while the PS4 slim alone gaming would drain that much. Add to it some watts from the monitor and you'll be draining your battery even plugged into the most powerful USB-C charger available in the market.
I was also thinking, about puch cells, would they surely provide enough C of discharge? With 10650 (and that many!) they surely can, using fewer puoch cells could be not easy on them, and yes they're definitely more dangerous! and in case of problems (cell swelling) thy would be way way worse than 18650
@@merlozzo with a 200wh capacity and 100w consumption pretty much any cells would be fine (half C discharge), but there are also the high discharge ones that they use even for car booster batteries, those can provide several hundreds of amperes in a single shot. Drone and RC batteries as well, very high discharge rates. Then again as we both mention, that comes with the penalty of any puncture being much easier and having serious consequences, dealing with those cells is either not as easy as an 18650 holder or you'll be stuck with RC/drone battery sizes, and not much weigh and size savings, if any (high discharge ones aren't as energy dense).
That actually brings up a very good question, how strong is an original PS4/PS4 Slim versus a Steamdeck? I recall it being the equivalent of a GCN 1.0 Radeon 7850, which while a pretty decent budget gaming card until say 2017... is hardly anything special next to a modern APU.
Even though I am not a playstation fan, I still think this is incredible. When I think about the big picture and the constraints behind this: It is an excellent proof of concept and prototype. This will lead to amazing mods and projects for the future.
This is a really cool project but needs some changes to the power system to be remotely practical. I would recommend using one of those 140w Anker powerbanks (maybe several of them). They can put out huge power, but also can be charged at 140w as well.
Just use a Steam Deck. The good portable console mods try to be as compact as possible, close to handheld, this one is just a big plastic case to hold the battery and the normal PS4 Slim Mobo. If you glue a portable monitor to a PS4 and connect to a power bank, it would be as good as this, a little bit bigger, but safer. It will have a disc reader. And you could switch the power bank...
I used a AK400 to cool my PS4 slim by drilling off the original heatsynk, it reaches now around 50 at maximum load on demanding games instead of 79+ set by Sony and it is completely silent.
@@SAMRGAMERTV No, but it is simple, youl need the cooler i mentioned, epoxy glue and a bit of knowledge on wht youre doing for sure, once you take the original heatsync off it is easy to glu the AK400 base on it, over the APU would be, let it dry for a day and just reassemble the console with the top open, place the cooler on the base making sure it makes contact with the APU and wire it to the original PWM wires from the board.
The PS3 was shown in the video a few times which confused me, but the PS4 also wasn't mentioned if it had Internet connectivity (i doubted it did have) or that the console could be turned on using the controller etc, or if the power is usable in other countries, such as UK power etc. It would be interesting to see an update if this is done in future TIto, thanks for the showcase though, interesting if someone would use these on a train journey etc.
NGL, there are better options out there. This one definitely isn't worth the trouble for how many downsides it has and I absolutely don't see why it deserves much coverage at present.
Lithium polymer batteries are more efficient than lithium ion and the chargers can be small but powerful. They can be charged in 2 hours rather than 12. That's what I would go with. It would be easier to keep the cells balanced as well. Li-po batteries are rectangular and flat so they would take up space more efficiently.
His girlfriend let him buy a 3D printer, welding tools, a broken PS4, an old laptop and all this other equipment, and she gives him the space in the house and the time needed to make this, but she would't let him buy a Steam Deck?
Yeah, that's why I'm pretty sure it's just a joke, and most people in the comments aren't getting it. 😅
He probably uses all that for his job
TOXIC RELATIONSHIP!!!!!!11111111111!!!!!11!!! hahahahahahaha
@@MadMathMike with all the people only telling about how their wives or GF despise gaming stuff, people can absolutely see this as being true lmao,
AMEN @@konstantine_c
I guess there’s room for improvement:
- slimmer flat batteries from smartphones
- uncased SSD instead of HDD to save space and power
- slimmer heatsink and fan from a gaming laptop
- moving hdmi -> lvds circuitry to a custom PCB
Literally came here to say this. The individual batteries feels inefficient, and definitely for both power and space reasons use an SSS
would a smartphone lipo really work? most battery power tools use the 18650's. maybe a safety issue?
@nil0bject
Its safety, stable and less degradation
And a new girlfriend
That's a good list of potential improvements. Cellphone batteries would be great because of the ability to fast charge, their higher capacity and extended longevity. Also, a 1366x768 screen resolution would be good.
Woah I had no idea that the PS4 slim motherboard was THAT small
Yeah it’s surprisingly small!
Reminds me of a certain model of PS2 Slim.
Well Bringus they made a mini you gonna make PS4 XL now I'm sure the Wii XL is lonely 😅
Please Mr bringus. Build us a even smaller even more portable ps4
He built this in his cave with a box of scraps!? Incredible! Sony and everyone else needs to take notes on this!
Yeah, well, Sony is not Tony Stark
Hey, not bad
So far the cleanest laptop style really portable PS4 👍
Yep, tu pourrais lui présenter ton projet de la 360?
@@Sonyffy j'ai pensé à lui direct quand il parlait de 360 portable mdr
@@Aldoria moi aussi !
A clip of an exploding 18650 would've gone a long way near the end when you're talking about how extreme caution is needed if you're going to weld/solder batteries together. 😂
Yeah you have to have a good soldering iron with a lot of thermal mass, or a lot of watts, I've soldered 18650s and the trick is to get as much heat as fast as you can, max temp on the soldering iron and solder the wires as quick as you can ensuring the solder melts and make a proper connection, the battery has a lot of thermal mass so having 400 Celsius for 3 seconds don't heat them up as much.
I use recycled 18650s so nickel strips aren't a option, also for a 18650 to blow up you have to try really hard, pretty much having the battery with a full charge and straight up cooking the cell 😂😂😂
"He wanted to be able to play Dark Souls on the go"
Nintendo Switch: Am I a joke to you?
2 & 3 Are not on the Switch. Also Bloodborne.
@@AnarickTheDevil Really? I would have thought Ds2 would be on the switch at least. Kind of odd to put Ds1 but not the rest
Yes. Yes it is.
@@kinggamer19 Think it was because 1 got a remaster and 2 didn't. 3 was on the next gen of consoles so the Switch couldn't run it.
Not even a good joke tbh
Certainly not the "Worlds First". I've seen a few portable PS4 units, with custom shells etc, over the past few years
This reminds me of Ben Heck's console to laptop conversions.
You're the first one after a loooong list of comments, aside from mine to mention Ben Heck. Ben is still doing videos under the "Ben Heck Hacks" channel name and his series on Menards electronics is pretty hilarious. It's like Big Clive but with a little more comedy.
Exactly!
“His girlfriend didn’t allow him-“
Excuse me?
Yep if that happens to me I got three words for her: Pack Your Sh!7.
Girlfriend.... Not wife.... different story.
@@TheCoolDave doesn’t matter if it’s his girlfriend, wife, or fiancé, no one should have that type of control on their partner, it’s unhealthy.
he has a man bun, that's why
I'm not buying the "my gf wouldn't let me" story. Mio fratello this is mod culture, not Hollywood LOLLLLL
I don’t buy that either
I think most people over look the press fit method. That's always amazing to me lol.
The goal of this project is not to see if it should be done, but if it could be done. Francesco laid the groundwork and I'm sure someone will build upon it.
Tfw Tito uses the Retro Renew intro for a PS4… Rest in pepperoni 😂
PS4 did come out 11 years ago, but I'm more in the camp of a 15-20 year gap before labelling something as retro.
This is like "Tony Stark building one, in a cave, with a box of scraps," I love the ingenuity of this build. I am quite impressed and look forward to seeing how Francesco and the community iterate on it.
Not diminishing the ingenuity of the creator but I'm reminded of the movie quote, "...so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should."
Dr Ian Malcolm - Jurassic Park
The moral of the story is don't have a girlfriend at least one who dictates what you can or cannot buy with your own money
This is super cool as a concept. But also kind of funny that you can do this essentially by building a handheld gaming PC with similar specs.
But it's the ingenuity of maintaining the hardware as is that makes it interesting
A software engineer who can’t spend money on tech? Sounds odd.
This design looks so elegant, huge props to Francesco
Thanks Man!!!
Peter knetter made a portable ps4 years ago
I love Peter Knetter but his console projects are the modding equivalent of shitposts 😂 Not a dig on him at all-- he's just going for a different thing entirely besides actual functionality
@@SquickWorks nuh uh
this is really cool, i dont really think of it as portable, but more as gaming laptop adjacent, (needing to be connected to an outlet with the battery sort of serving as a inbetween outlets) a hdmi splitter inside would be amazing to maintain its tv functionality
Unfortunately, I have seen portables like this before made by Ben Heckendorn so this isn't all that surprising. Ben's portable Xbox units weren't battery powered but very similar styling overall. The one thing I would have done though was swap out the hard drive with an SSD and the SATA units aren't badly priced. This would extend the play time a bit and have faster loads to boot.
1. Charging time was likely due to safety -- to avoid any possibility of thermal runaway.
2. The battery housing is BAD -- the battery heat goes RIGHT into the console and vice versa.
3. Repurposing an xbox 360 power supply is an odd choice -- when a usb c PD3 charger can EASILY supply 150w+
4. The battery should be a clip on/slide on box on the bottom -- with an optional DC input, as well as possibility for a few common battery standards (eg: tools, laptops, etc)
5. An SSD should have been sued. Obv might require a mod chip, but common ways emulate a HDD for an SSD is much desired to hide the use of an SSD from the OS (but maybe there's anti cheat for this?)
6. The motherboard can be FOLDED to make an even smaller package, as well as concentrating heat to a central heat pipe.
No mod chip needed for SSD it's probably because he didn't want to have to go into safe mode and do full system reinstall.
1) charging time is probably a result of repurposing what he had on hands, it's surely ok to look out for temps while charging, but here it seems the batteries are operating at a small fraction of their C power possibility, there's surely room for improvement. Most hobbyist chargers can deploy a thermal probe too, it wold not be that hard to implement I think at this point, charging in 2/3h would really be a turning point in usability. It's unclear if the sistem can run directly from AC, which would be a must have imho
I got the impression he was using what he had lying around.
@@steveleavell114 And you are correct :D
"his girlfriend didn't allow him" What? He's a grown man lmao
Exactly. 🤣🤣🤣
DUMP HER ASAP!!!
They probably have a shared money budget would be my guess
If it is his money, he can spend it the way he wants.
for real
shared pockets, shared decisions @@Warbob11
also. usb c wouldn’t work as usb c is rated up to 5 amps and that wouldn’t work well
I feel like a lot of Tito’s concerns are addressable by using custom parts. It’s obvious that Francesco was going for off the shelf technology, which is fine it was his design brief and I’d say he succeeded in what he set out to do and tbh I’m struggling to wrap my head around trying to make a portable ps2 let alone making a portable ps4.
Honestly, I prefer this "someone has done a mod to ..." videos over your "Install this mod in this way" videos. Most of these videos are more commercials and not very changeling (of course with exceptions).
This "mod" on the other hand ist a masterpiece and entertained me a lot. The 3D printing lets me think about me lagging knowledge about this topic. That has to be changed 🙂
People are always trying to make desktop consoles portable and vice versa. This is reminiscent of the situation with Apple: the iPhone is always getting larger, while the iPad, on the contrary, is becoming more compact. Just a funny observation.
But this mod is pretty straightforward and that makes it extremely cool.
This video touches on something i have hoped we would see for quite sometime. A portable mini PC that includes a screen. So you can play emulated games on the go or plugged in.
*PS4 Portable or PS4P.
I can appreciate the work he put into this project. The modular aspect is great. I just feel he handled the battery situation poorly. Welding batteries is well above your average modder’s ability. New batteries with a usb c style charger would greatly improve it but not by much. All this work for 1-1/2 to 2 hours of gameplay seems pointless.
All jokes aside it is quite an impressive mod despite its flaws, I wonder how PS4 modding will develop in the future
Some Japanese dude did this like 6 years ago.
This is NOT the first by any stretch of the imagination.
His version was also a lot more advanced.
Link of the video?
Source?
Not doubting I just wanna see.
Link
sauce...! please???
@@AMidgetWalrus I found it, his name is DxTerraria. He made it 4yrs ago, had a 1hr runtime, & weighed 14lbs cus he used a briefcase. Honestly it looks really cool, but I prefer Francesco's design more + less weight
Fantastic project, I want to do a similar project with a Mister Fpga
I miss the Ben Heck’s console-to-laptop projects
Girlfriend would not let him spend the money on a SteamDeck, or another portable console. That is the problem, replace the girlfriend problem solved.
Now on top the project on hand, it's very impressive. In his case, this perfect for him but, if he was selling kits, finding everything, buying it all, batteries, soldering time.... It would be cheaper to buy a Steam Deck, or even a Ally (maybe not a Ally X but the base model).
I do admire the work and passion here...
For that loose cover around the screen, I'd say just squirt some super glue in there or use a soldering iron to melt the pieces together. One thing that would make it even cooler is if the controller could dock inside with the lid closed. Then you really could have a complete self-contained unit, albeit with only an hour of play time.
I see a lot improvement points there. I hope there will be a 2.0 version of that mod.
I just traded in my PS4, saving up for a PS5 this holiday season! Regardless, this is an impressive build by a guy that cooks when his girlfriend makes him think outside the box! Very cool!
Ben heck would be proud
The final result based on those constraints was spectacular.
It would be great to see someone use this as a starting point where they maybe ditch the batteries to save space (or maybe use a different battery source?) and use a mini HDMI monitor to save using a converter board, still all within a custom housing.
The GameCube had a carry handle. The whole set up reminds me of a portable record player. Maybe a handle designed for that sort of thing could be repurposed.
This is a very good idea! Thanks for the suggestion!!!
This is quite neat but saying that the screen looks anything but horrible is just silly. I've never seen dark souls look almost as blue as the PS4 home screen I guess maybe it's your camera, but that screen looks horrifically bad and probably should have used an SSD for even lower power consumption and quicker loading. But either way, super awesome concept
here is an interesting note. The Asus ZenScreen 15.6" that can be powered on by USB C works on the PS5. So, no need for a big screen if you need to conserve power. Kind of like having a power bank battery.
she probably thought he wouldn't come through with the project, BUT HE DID!!
Well that was quick
TONY STARK BUILT THIS IN A CAVE! WITH SCRAPS!
I bet with software modding that you could underclock the CPU and get a little bit longer battery life. I'm not sure how much that would affect performance, but a slight underclock could be beneficial.
Also an SSD would be more power efficient than an HDD.
It's so funny because it's still with the Italian menu
Hope he'll put a handle, use an nvme with an adapter, a copper heatsink with a blower fan, a blower fan and a couple of supercaps to see if it charges faster
He should try to play Enotria to be even more Italian 😂
Holy shit... I really hope it's not too hard to grab a modded/moddable PS4 for sale because I never bothered to do so and with this, they might bump up in price...
💻🏃♂️💨
Francesco built this in a mancave! With a box of scraps!
I'd like to see something like this in a semi-portable package. It can be shrunk significantly without the batteries and you won't need to worry about it dying at an inopportune moment. A single unit that has the display, console, speakers, etc inside and only needs a power cable to plug into the wall. Maybe move the PSU to a brick like this one to combat heat.
Grande Fra!
I love the concept, but it could definitely improve a lot!
certainly you would want a nicer screen than an old netbook lol
His girlfriend wouldn't allow him to buy a steam deck, but let him get all these tools huh? Sounds like a real no logic gal, toss her out.
those batteries will soak up a lot of heat coming from the PS4
This reminds me of those Gaems Vanguard suitcase displays.
Bro really said Fransesco
These are always so cool. I remember the portable x-box crazy. I wonder how big the PS5 Pro motherboard is and its power requirements?
"Portable PS4" 😅
That amount of 18650 in your portable device looks like a 💣
Impressive. All I can say.
Looks amazing but hopefully he didnt mix cells like it showed at the beginning as different cells have different mAh and thats never a good idea to do also charging 18 18650's no matter the power supply is going to take awhile love the video man
Grande francesco
That's amazing! People are so smart to design and build things like this
9:26 12 hours?!
So it has the same battery life as some of the first ever "laptop" computers from the 70's and 80's and is basically as big as them... Can I have four please???
Can't really complain about using 18650s on it, using holders instead of tab welding would be my preferred method for ease of swapping when they eventually go tho, but otherwise a solid choice, they're about as safe as you can get in Li-Ion therms. Dealing with the delicate pouch cells as in phones, some laptops and power banks sure is a much worse hassle, and would gain little in comparison, new 18650 cells, same amount, at 3 Ah each would give you close to 200w/h which is twice of what you're even allowed to carry on a plane, and still give you 2h play time..
Same about the power supply situation: the charging circuit might be way underpowered, but using USB-C would not work properly either. That tops at 100w, while the PS4 slim alone gaming would drain that much. Add to it some watts from the monitor and you'll be draining your battery even plugged into the most powerful USB-C charger available in the market.
I was also thinking, about puch cells, would they surely provide enough C of discharge? With 10650 (and that many!) they surely can, using fewer puoch cells could be not easy on them, and yes they're definitely more dangerous! and in case of problems (cell swelling) thy would be way way worse than 18650
@@merlozzo with a 200wh capacity and 100w consumption pretty much any cells would be fine (half C discharge), but there are also the high discharge ones that they use even for car booster batteries, those can provide several hundreds of amperes in a single shot. Drone and RC batteries as well, very high discharge rates.
Then again as we both mention, that comes with the penalty of any puncture being much easier and having serious consequences, dealing with those cells is either not as easy as an 18650 holder or you'll be stuck with RC/drone battery sizes, and not much weigh and size savings, if any (high discharge ones aren't as energy dense).
We surely got the Portable PS4…
Thank you for your vidéo 🤩
"his girlfriend didn't allow him"
🤣🤣🤣
BREAK UP WITH HER IMMEDIATELY!!!
If they aren't married. It's not her money. 🤦♂
@@rayskinner4289 its not her money regardless
That actually brings up a very good question, how strong is an original PS4/PS4 Slim versus a Steamdeck? I recall it being the equivalent of a GCN 1.0 Radeon 7850, which while a pretty decent budget gaming card until say 2017... is hardly anything special next to a modern APU.
I love this kind of stuff!
TONY STARK BUILT THIS IN A CAVE, WITH A BOX OF SCRAPS!
Finally... portable bloodborne
Even though I am not a playstation fan, I still think this is incredible. When I think about the big picture and the constraints behind this: It is an excellent proof of concept and prototype. This will lead to amazing mods and projects for the future.
If he use 21700 cells. He will have more capacity and/or weight loss. For the BMS, Use electric skateboard BMS. I could charge 31600mah in 1 hr.
Were getting close to the halloween specials 😁 great video Macho!
This is a really cool project but needs some changes to the power system to be remotely practical. I would recommend using one of those 140w Anker powerbanks (maybe several of them). They can put out huge power, but also can be charged at 140w as well.
2:00
FRANESCO MADE THIS IN A CAVE, WITH A BOX OF SCRAPES!
Someone should tell this guy about Remote Play
Just use a Steam Deck. The good portable console mods try to be as compact as possible, close to handheld, this one is just a big plastic case to hold the battery and the normal PS4 Slim Mobo. If you glue a portable monitor to a PS4 and connect to a power bank, it would be as good as this, a little bit bigger, but safer. It will have a disc reader. And you could switch the power bank...
It would be more interesting if they did an external battery brick (and more than one).
I used a AK400 to cool my PS4 slim by drilling off the original heatsynk, it reaches now around 50 at maximum load on demanding games instead of 79+ set by Sony and it is completely silent.
Do you have a pict?
@@SAMRGAMERTV No, but it is simple, youl need the cooler i mentioned, epoxy glue and a bit of knowledge on wht youre doing for sure, once you take the original heatsync off it is easy to glu the AK400 base on it, over the APU would be, let it dry for a day and just reassemble the console with the top open, place the cooler on the base making sure it makes contact with the APU and wire it to the original PWM wires from the board.
This is awesome. Can he do this for others like the N64?
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Installing a SSD would cut down on weight and power draw.
Another one of those reminders is that Sony can make its consoles smaller.
The PS3 was shown in the video a few times which confused me, but the PS4 also wasn't mentioned if it had Internet connectivity (i doubted it did have) or that the console could be turned on using the controller etc, or if the power is usable in other countries, such as UK power etc. It would be interesting to see an update if this is done in future TIto, thanks for the showcase though, interesting if someone would use these on a train journey etc.
if the power brick which recharges it works on 100-240V should be good in every country, otherwise gotta use a proper charger
use a bms that does individual battery or dual battery charge it will reduce charge hour to 2 hour
Some companies have released a Portable PlayStation 4 some years ago, the most famous is the steamdeck 🥴Same performance.
NGL, there are better options out there. This one definitely isn't worth the trouble for how many downsides it has and I absolutely don't see why it deserves much coverage at present.
Time to get a new girlfriend, Francesco.
the slim ps4 is already so thin, all it needs is a screen
Lithium polymer batteries are more efficient than lithium ion and the chargers can be small but powerful. They can be charged in 2 hours rather than 12. That's what I would go with. It would be easier to keep the cells balanced as well. Li-po batteries are rectangular and flat so they would take up space more efficiently.
But they are a lot more expensive, have less capacity and they heats up a lot!
I knew someone was going to do this
using a usb-c to charge a 18650 isn't going to do it. you need a 12v charging unit with a proper bms that charge lithium battery.
Thanks man ahahahaha
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