Hello! This is the beginning of the Kill Mii Too thread!
This project was inspired by @Shank's original project, the Kill Mii. The Kill Mii was a project made a few years ago by Shank, an amazing person in the community. It was a project based on the long-running joke in the community, "But can it fit in an Altoids tin?" and he did just that. He took a Wii and basically shoved it into an Altoids tin. It had horrible battery life, it was very uncomfortable, and it was a huge mess on the inside, but it worked. Well, now I want a piece of the pain! Sorry if I look a bit insensitive for taking Shank's naming convention without asking first... I'm just bad with naming stuff.
I started this project about a year ago while I was studying the Wii Compendium and found an Altoids Smalls tin on my desk. I put it up to the Wii motherboard I was trying to fix and found that both the CPU and GPU would just barely be able to fit. After that, I got curious and became very side-tracked. And a few days ago, I got a notification of something that almost gave me a heart attack, it was a new thread about the ZOMG. I haven't done the trim, but I will eventually get it done. I'm so glad someone who isn't shy would say something about this trim.
Well, I guess this is my progress from the past year...
I had made a simple model of how the Wii would look.
Then I made a simple model of the Altoids Smalls tin based on the one I had, and then just started filling it with all the parts a Wii portable would need: fan, heatsink, PMS, PD, GC+, screen, buttons, etc. It was a lot to fit in such a small space, but I managed to fit a lot in there, with that it still just barely closes the gap.
Here's an old model I made to map it out:
Here's a 3D printed test of it:
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This project was inspired by @Shank's original project, the Kill Mii. The Kill Mii was a project made a few years ago by Shank, an amazing person in the community. It was a project based on the long-running joke in the community, "But can it fit in an Altoids tin?" and he did just that. He took a Wii and basically shoved it into an Altoids tin. It had horrible battery life, it was very uncomfortable, and it was a huge mess on the inside, but it worked. Well, now I want a piece of the pain! Sorry if I look a bit insensitive for taking Shank's naming convention without asking first... I'm just bad with naming stuff.
I started this project about a year ago while I was studying the Wii Compendium and found an Altoids Smalls tin on my desk. I put it up to the Wii motherboard I was trying to fix and found that both the CPU and GPU would just barely be able to fit. After that, I got curious and became very side-tracked. And a few days ago, I got a notification of something that almost gave me a heart attack, it was a new thread about the ZOMG. I haven't done the trim, but I will eventually get it done. I'm so glad someone who isn't shy would say something about this trim.
Well, I guess this is my progress from the past year...
I had made a simple model of how the Wii would look.
Then I made a simple model of the Altoids Smalls tin based on the one I had, and then just started filling it with all the parts a Wii portable would need: fan, heatsink, PMS, PD, GC+, screen, buttons, etc. It was a lot to fit in such a small space, but I managed to fit a lot in there, with that it still just barely closes the gap.
Here's an old model I made to map it out:
Here's a 3D printed test of it:
(¬‿¬ )
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