Yeah, I really hope we start to see more controllers with inbuilt displays. I know Asus has done one but I'm unsure if its doing anything useful or if its just there for decoration lol
Dan, I hope your channel takes off. I, like probably many of your new subscribers came over from Tito’s video. Your work is amazing and the fact that you open source just shows how passionate you are.
Insane...I just found you and you are next level crazy bro. I'm just so impressed with your work. This is crazy! I have the means to follow your work but I really want to wait and see what you find.
Phenomenal work! I hope some Chinese manufacturers will pick up this project and release some nice cheap handhelds with it. Having a nice handheld this well designed for 200-300 usd would break the market!
You're welcome to do as you please! Just be warned however that fitting an 8" display is going to be a fair bit of work I think. If you have to resize the outside of the housing it would almost be a full re-design by that stage! I've got my fingers crossed for you that it fits without having to go to those lengths!
Yes I realized that as I opened Fusion😅. What's your plan on doing the battery? Will you be able to charge the thing while using it? That's my biggest problem I wanna overcome. Cheers, Matt
@@mateszerencsi8224 Yes, it needs to be able to charge and be used simultaneously. I'm working on a design for a battery management system currently so hopefully I'll have a prototype in my hands soon to begin testing. I've included a USB-C port for charging and I've configured the PD to request 20v 5a from the charger which should be plenty to charge whilst playing.
I'm looking forward to it. I'm not too good with the PCB designing myself so I'm kind of shot and just waiting for you to make the hard work.😅😅So thanks for it
Improvement 2: Add a "cartridge" feature to provide a "console" feel. CompactFlash cards (for the games, not the OS) are a great option because they're physically large with room for game art and logos
There's plenty of other emulation devices out there that do this. There's absolutely zero spare room in there unfortunately but the project is open source so if you feel like having a go yourself, go for it!
Great project and update! I don't think I've seen a number for the final build cost. What is your target? Also, how scalable will the cost of a device like this be? Are there different "guts" that can go in the shell that would allow for a cheaper build?
Yeah, I haven't worked out a total cost yet because it's not really finished. At last count, not counting the parts for the PCBs or the NUC itself, there's about $120usd in hardware. I'd estimate the PCBs will probably cost close to $100 by the time we're done. We're probably looking at about a $200-300usd total not counting the NUC.
only thing i could want is a mini pcie graphics adapter with a relatively modern chip, got a nuc i might use for such a thing, though i'm more interested in building with remote processing.
The problem with a GPU of any sort is power consumption. I am planning to one day build a thunderbolt GPU dock for it though so you can hook it up to an external display and play more modern games!
@@cncdan nvidia rtx a500 embedded does 35watts. might be an older one could use less and is probably possible when mounted on a mini-pcie card. something that starts with a matching number of lanes might be a better idea though.
Yeah, but that's 35 more watts on top of what the system already draws. It can already flatten its battery in under an hour at full load, so that could potentially halve your battery life again. You'd need bigger batteries as the extra load would be too much for the current ones to handle anyway without causing damage. That's not to say you couldn't do it, just that it will end up being a much larger unit which is why none of the professional ones have a dedicated GPU yet.
I am watching all these videos, but cannot find which NUC you are using. Without this info your game testing is kind of in a vacuum. I did score a NUC8i7BEH motherboard on eBay for $46. It supposedly has bad USB ports (although the USB-C port is working). I am hoping the motherboard USB 2.0 headers still work. I liked the way you de-populated the HDMI and I am assuming soldered an FPC socket down 👍, smart move I think I'll copy. I already have a screen and an Arduino installed in a Wii-U gamepad, maybe I can get the NUC installed as a backpack 😆. Until I'm hopefully able to try your case. It would be amazing to me to be able to use an iPad 9.7" Displayport screen, as it is quad 1024x768, which should look amazing and is already 4:3. (I realize it won't be able to render the full pixels, but rendering at 1024 should be fine as the scaling is simple integer (double every pixel in a line, double every line) Cheers!
I'm pretty sure I mentioned it in the first video. Anyway it's a 7th Gen i5 NUC. The letters afterwards only tell you what housing it came in, so they don't really matter in our case. I agree that the games testing isn't really necessary (the analytics also show that most people aren't interested) but a few of the guys on the discord have asked how certain games perform so I'm happy to test a couple out. Personally I think the 1024x600 resolution is ample for a small 7" screen but there's nothing to stop you modifying it to suit a larger/higher resolution display. Thanks for watching anyway and make sure you jump on the discord as we have a lot of people over there building their own variations of this sort of thing too!
i just started watching your videos i love the series.But i have a question,are you like casting from your mini pc or is the computer inside the handheld?
Unfortunately not. This is just a diy project. I will be making all the project files available for download for free once the project is complete though!
At the moment, I've designed it to use a 7th gen NUC. The idea is that we can design different back covers and top plates and support any generation of NUC
Especially the printed grey buttons in this epsiode! Hopefully you don't think that's a bad thing because I'm very fond of the old transparent gameboys!
I tried running Holoiso on it at first but there was no driver support for the older Intel platform yet. Seeing as it's just a regular PC, you can run whatever software you want on it so any version of Linux that is compatible will be fine! I just went with windows because I wanted native support for the games that I'm interested in!
You are an absolute madlad. This is revolutionary work you have going here. Please keep at it!
Cheers! Will do!
Yay for the paint! Less RGB 😊 that gamepad firmware is brilliant, It looks like a great candidate for a controller in general.
Yeah, I really hope we start to see more controllers with inbuilt displays. I know Asus has done one but I'm unsure if its doing anything useful or if its just there for decoration lol
Dan, I hope your channel takes off. I, like probably many of your new subscribers came over from Tito’s video. Your work is amazing and the fact that you open source just shows how passionate you are.
Thanks! Yeah I've had about an extra hundred or so subs since his video went up so it's definitely a nice little boost!
Let's gooooooo, love your content. Finally a breather between "yet another 7840u handheld was announced"
Next minute... Nucdeck update, fitting a new 7940u NUC! 🤣
Cant wait to try this project myself! Amazing work!
Everything you need to get started is there at least so go for it!
Coming alongggg
Yep, slowly getting there!
Sweet project! It's getting close to the finish, can't wait until the end result!
Insane...I just found you and you are next level crazy bro.
I'm just so impressed with your work. This is crazy! I have the means to follow your work but I really want to wait and see what you find.
Thanks, I do my best!
Love to see it 🙂
This is amazing keep up the good work mate! Subscribed 100% as im a cnc man myself and soon will start looking into a 3d printer
CNC and 3D printing really do go hand in hand! Cheers for the sub!
I still cannot believe this is open source 🔥🔥🔥🔥
I hope at least a few people end up building their own!
Phenomenal work! I hope some Chinese manufacturers will pick up this project and release some nice cheap handhelds with it. Having a nice handheld this well designed for 200-300 usd would break the market!
Yeah, I'm honestly surprised we haven't seen more of that already. Seems to be a completely untapped market!
Absolutely awesome project!
Cheers mate!
nice work! cant wait to see other people build and tweak their own.
Me too, excited to see what the community comes up with!
Good work man!
Cheers!
Amazing project! can`t wait to start it myself. I may even modify it a bit so that i can fit an 8 inch display.
You're welcome to do as you please! Just be warned however that fitting an 8" display is going to be a fair bit of work I think. If you have to resize the outside of the housing it would almost be a full re-design by that stage! I've got my fingers crossed for you that it fits without having to go to those lengths!
Yes I realized that as I opened Fusion😅. What's your plan on doing the battery? Will you be able to charge the thing while using it? That's my biggest problem I wanna overcome.
Cheers, Matt
@@mateszerencsi8224 Yes, it needs to be able to charge and be used simultaneously. I'm working on a design for a battery management system currently so hopefully I'll have a prototype in my hands soon to begin testing. I've included a USB-C port for charging and I've configured the PD to request 20v 5a from the charger which should be plenty to charge whilst playing.
I'm looking forward to it. I'm not too good with the PCB designing myself so I'm kind of shot and just waiting for you to make the hard work.😅😅So thanks for it
Nice work mate!
Cheers mate!
This is awesome man well done
Thanks!
liked all the vids and subscribed amazing work man
Thanks!
Improvement 2: Add a "cartridge" feature to provide a "console" feel. CompactFlash cards (for the games, not the OS) are a great option because they're physically large with room for game art and logos
There's plenty of other emulation devices out there that do this. There's absolutely zero spare room in there unfortunately but the project is open source so if you feel like having a go yourself, go for it!
Looks great!
Thanks!
Outstanding!
Thank you! Cheers!
Great project and update! I don't think I've seen a number for the final build cost. What is your target? Also, how scalable will the cost of a device like this be? Are there different "guts" that can go in the shell that would allow for a cheaper build?
Yeah, I haven't worked out a total cost yet because it's not really finished. At last count, not counting the parts for the PCBs or the NUC itself, there's about $120usd in hardware. I'd estimate the PCBs will probably cost close to $100 by the time we're done. We're probably looking at about a $200-300usd total not counting the NUC.
I think I'd rather buy a steamdeck 😅
Awesome work
Thanks!
only thing i could want is a mini pcie graphics adapter with a relatively modern chip, got a nuc i might use for such a thing, though i'm more interested in building with remote processing.
The problem with a GPU of any sort is power consumption. I am planning to one day build a thunderbolt GPU dock for it though so you can hook it up to an external display and play more modern games!
@@cncdan nvidia rtx a500 embedded does 35watts. might be an older one could use less and is probably possible when mounted on a mini-pcie card. something that starts with a matching number of lanes might be a better idea though.
Yeah, but that's 35 more watts on top of what the system already draws. It can already flatten its battery in under an hour at full load, so that could potentially halve your battery life again. You'd need bigger batteries as the extra load would be too much for the current ones to handle anyway without causing damage. That's not to say you couldn't do it, just that it will end up being a much larger unit which is why none of the professional ones have a dedicated GPU yet.
@@cncdan yah, if there were a way to automatically switch it on when plugged in, that'd help.
Hence why I want to build a GPU dock. No point carrying the hardware around if you can't use it until you're plugged in anyway!
Great job man, i work on mine console too and i solve the problem of the battery with One rechargheble with pcb inside and works great.
Thanks! The battery is a bit difficult in this one, as it requires a 4s configuration so there aren't many off-the-shelf options available
I am watching all these videos, but cannot find which NUC you are using. Without this info your game testing is kind of in a vacuum. I did score a NUC8i7BEH motherboard on eBay for $46. It supposedly has bad USB ports (although the USB-C port is working). I am hoping the motherboard USB 2.0 headers still work.
I liked the way you de-populated the HDMI and I am assuming soldered an FPC socket down 👍, smart move I think I'll copy. I already have a screen and an Arduino installed in a Wii-U gamepad, maybe I can get the NUC installed as a backpack 😆. Until I'm hopefully able to try your case.
It would be amazing to me to be able to use an iPad 9.7" Displayport screen, as it is quad 1024x768, which should look amazing and is already 4:3. (I realize it won't be able to render the full pixels, but rendering at 1024 should be fine as the scaling is simple integer (double every pixel in a line, double every line)
Cheers!
I'm pretty sure I mentioned it in the first video. Anyway it's a 7th Gen i5 NUC. The letters afterwards only tell you what housing it came in, so they don't really matter in our case. I agree that the games testing isn't really necessary (the analytics also show that most people aren't interested) but a few of the guys on the discord have asked how certain games perform so I'm happy to test a couple out. Personally I think the 1024x600 resolution is ample for a small 7" screen but there's nothing to stop you modifying it to suit a larger/higher resolution display. Thanks for watching anyway and make sure you jump on the discord as we have a lot of people over there building their own variations of this sort of thing too!
i just started watching your videos i love the series.But i have a question,are you like casting from your mini pc or is the computer inside the handheld?
Hopefully the later videos have answered your question already, but just in case, no the mini PC is going inside the handheld!
@@cncdan ya i watched but i still couldn't find the part where you put it
This video at about the 12 minute mark shows me fitting the pc. ua-cam.com/video/nFNw7_WkteA/v-deo.htmlsi=ldU9yT5T8c8RqoON
@@cncdan thank but can you make a handheld by using a sbc like a raspberry pi5.
Wonderful 👍
Cheers!
well done 👏 ✔ 👍
Thanks!
Is there any way where i can buy the Nucdeck ?
Unfortunately not. This is just a diy project. I will be making all the project files available for download for free once the project is complete though!
can someone tell me what the highest end NUC this supports?
At the moment, I've designed it to use a 7th gen NUC. The idea is that we can design different back covers and top plates and support any generation of NUC
It looks a lot like a big gba with that color
Especially the printed grey buttons in this epsiode! Hopefully you don't think that's a bad thing because I'm very fond of the old transparent gameboys!
@@cncdan No it looks great 👍
What’s the overall price
Not something I'll have a definite answer to until the project is fully finished, sorry! It will also greatly depend on which model of NUC you choose.
@@cncdan that’s ok! I’m in the market for a 3d printer in the 300-400 dollar price range right now so I’m just looking for ideas
Improvement 1: Make it a Linux handheld, with all open-source software and UI.
I tried running Holoiso on it at first but there was no driver support for the older Intel platform yet. Seeing as it's just a regular PC, you can run whatever software you want on it so any version of Linux that is compatible will be fine! I just went with windows because I wanted native support for the games that I'm interested in!
im blue dabu di dabu dai
😂