I've spent a few months (most of this year I guess) lurking and asking questions here and now it's time to start my first worklog!
I've always loved the Sony consoles (PS1 and PS2 at least) and a quick Google search at the beginning of the year for "portable PS2" lead me to this site and ModRetro. I've learned so much from both sites about electronics and 3D printing so I'm making a portable PS2 and here's my feature wish list:
It's called the PS2WP since wooden. PS2 wooden portable. Makes sense to me ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I've started designing the case on 123D design and once I've done that I'm going to import it into Fusion to parameterise so I can just adjust config and the case will adjust itself. I'm doing it this way because 123D is so simple to use and Fusion has some super cool parameter driven design features with a less intuitive interface.
So here's my design so far, it's to be printed in a few different pieces (this is still super early stage). This is the back which will house the motherboard and heatsink. The vent will be in the top and other components like the audio amp, controller and battery protection circuits. It's about 25cm wide (with the wings on it)
Here's one of the wing's battery compartments which I'm quite happy with (will put a screw post inside and a screw tab on it)

The middle section will house
Once I've gotten close with the case I'll trim the motherboard, I'll be doing the same trim as Gman's Modern PS2 which I'm quite excited about. Gman's is a 79001 but I'm using 79003s since they're way pigging easier to find in the U.K and cheaper (£15-20 per functioning console)
More posts soon!
I've always loved the Sony consoles (PS1 and PS2 at least) and a quick Google search at the beginning of the year for "portable PS2" lead me to this site and ModRetro. I've learned so much from both sites about electronics and 3D printing so I'm making a portable PS2 and here's my feature wish list:
- 7" screen, most of the games I really enjoyed are 16:9 according to this source.
- I really want VGA but no screens support 15khz so I'm going to try and use a Wii2HDMI to improve quality while I research a small FPGA based scan doubler for my next portable.
- Integrated 64mb memory card with OPL on it.
- USB loading, I'm going to try and hide the USB slot somewhere in the back.
- 2nd player port and second memory card slot in the top.
- Rumble using iPhone 5 vibration units (they're 5v I think, so I'll step down.)
- 3D printed case (more on this shortly) with a wooden face. Will print on my Creality CR10M
- Custom heat pipe solution for the heatsink so I can slim it down further.
- 7.4V battery pack with changeable batteries like Gman's latest portable.
It's called the PS2WP since wooden. PS2 wooden portable. Makes sense to me ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I've started designing the case on 123D design and once I've done that I'm going to import it into Fusion to parameterise so I can just adjust config and the case will adjust itself. I'm doing it this way because 123D is so simple to use and Fusion has some super cool parameter driven design features with a less intuitive interface.
So here's my design so far, it's to be printed in a few different pieces (this is still super early stage). This is the back which will house the motherboard and heatsink. The vent will be in the top and other components like the audio amp, controller and battery protection circuits. It's about 25cm wide (with the wings on it)
Here's one of the wing's battery compartments which I'm quite happy with (will put a screw post inside and a screw tab on it)

The middle section will house
- the screen's driver board
- the controller wings
- the memory card and controller ports
- the power switch, reset switch and volume control knob (I'm not using a digital amp)
- the fan that will cool the small heatsink that the heatpipes go into
Once I've gotten close with the case I'll trim the motherboard, I'll be doing the same trim as Gman's Modern PS2 which I'm quite excited about. Gman's is a 79001 but I'm using 79003s since they're way pigging easier to find in the U.K and cheaper (£15-20 per functioning console)
More posts soon!
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