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Winner Announcement: Win a Xbox One S All-Digital Edition!!

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Meet David Edwards from the e14 presents show The Electronics Inside: a show where David tears down toys, tools, and electronic appliances just to find out what’s inside.

 

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Watch our very first episode where David tears down Xbox One S All-Digital Edition.

 

You must wonder what happens to these devices after they are torn down. Well, if David manages to put it back together (and get it working) then we GIVEAWAY the device.

 

 

This month we are spicing things up by giving away David's torn down and rebuilt  XBOX one S All-Digital Edition to one lucky community member!

 

 

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Rules to enter:

 

Step 1:  Log in or register on element14, it's easy and free.

 

Step 2: In the comments below, post a picture of a game, game controller, handheld or console that you have modified in any way(The project should be yours, not someone else's) AND tell us what would you do with the new Xbox one S all digital. The entry with the best combination of past achievement and future aspiration will win.

 

Step 3: You can enter this contest until midnight UTC 13th September 2019. Winners will be announced on 30th September 2019. If you need something to do between now and then make sure to check out all the great electronics videos at element14 presents

 

Follow these pages for more information:

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  • My chops

    At some point in my life I ended up with a classic ZX Spectrum case with no PCB and no keyboard membrane. Without these two things, it was just a box that looked liked my childhood (but much emptier).

     

    Then, years later, I got a ZX Uno board. It's a complete Spectrum (and much more) implemented flawlessly on an FPGA. Looking around for a case, I spotted my vacant Speccy case, and so in it went!

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    It's obviously not a perfect fit. It took some cutting and filing to achieve...

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    I cobbled together bits from my "I might use this one day" boxes to take VGA, power and PS/2 keyboard to the back. The SD card slot for the ZX Uno is a full sized one, so I glued an adaptor in place, and now there's a micro SD card slot easily accessible. (The video and audio out happened to line up perfectly with two existing cut-outs in this position as well - very lucky!) A speaker from an old PC is fed audio through a little amplifier circuit, and a volume wheel is added to a cut-out at the front because it got VERY loud...)

     

    I make no excuses for the quantity of hot glue. I wasn't doing this for anyone but me image

     

    But what of the keyboard? And some kind of joystick? Glad you asked.

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    Using a combination of conductive copper tape, PVC insulation tape and solder (with LOTS of flux so the tip wasn't near the plastic for too long) I added a kinda membrane keyboard thing. My favourite layout for Spectrum games (QAOPM) is set up as a joypad which goes down into the 9-pin D socket. (It feels wonderful.) I have a PS/2 keyboard for everything else.

     

    My Xbox idea

     

    Thanks to David we've seen just how much space is wasted with the optical drive removed. LOADS! There's also HDMI pass-through, and plenty of amps hanging around the PSU. I'd drop a Pi 4B, a couple of USB 3.0 drives and a wireless keyboard/mouse dongle into the empty cavern (making sure that the wireless side of things isn't nobbled by RF shielding, naturally) and take the HDMI output to the input on the Xbox. Hey presto, one double-team home server and entertainment platform!

  • in reply to IrregularShed

    Great mod, and great idea for the xbox using the pass through like that!

     

    Good with the competition!

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