My Raspberry Pi portable without HDMI!

How do you mount the controls to the Board? and could it be done with a modern controller, like xbox one?

For Ben's design, the external case is designed to limit the wiggle room of the 3D printed buttons. The buttons rest on top of the PCB. No glue or screws, they are held in place by being pressed between the outer case and the PCB. Ben sometimes uses what he calls funky foam, which are adhesive back foam sheets you can get at a craft store. He then hand-cuts or laser cuts the funky foam to fit the buttons to act as a gasket if the buttons are too wiggly or there is a small gap to fill. The foam is rigid and thick enough to hold the buttons in place, but soft and squishy enough to allow for some movement.

In my version I am using the original controls from the portable, so I found the traces on the original board that connect to the button pad and then wired them to the teensy

I'm hoping to borrow that technique to make a ps vita laptop with a split controllers and a touch screen. Since its unix code based for the OS I can probably run it on a pc previously running ubuntu. so couols you send me a instructions on how you wired them to  the PI and is i can do this on other board like the nuc pc board.

Am able to get a custom casse going.

Preferably keeping the original card reader intact.planning an plan on loading the software update from another pc anyway.

Reusing what you're given is usually a pretty good way to go. Nice work.

I have a PSPi v4 from Othermod which is great.  But there are a few things I would like to have added.  So I was happy to find Ben making this.  I was looking for some other videos on YouTube and came across yours too.  I purchased a GamePlayer X9 and have most of the parts and am going to  do some modifying of that to allow a nice Vita slim style Pi0 portable.

If done right you can solder everything to perf board.  You don't need a special PCB, 3D printed case or anything.  Just standard components and reuse a few parts on the original GamePlayer X9 motherboard.  Only thing that I'm having trouble trying to do is to add L2,R2,L3,R3 buttons.  I might just forgo those for now.

Features possible:

5" 800x480 screen

dual analog sticks (if you relocate Vol+/Vol- keys)

Easy access to removable MicroSD cardStereo speakers (if an additional speaker is purchased only has 1, but has a holder and vents for a 2nd)

Jasonn,

Wow! That was quite a hack.  You managed to get a lot inside a pretty tiny package.  Good Job!

Gene