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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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  • I am not sure if this would count as modding a handheld or gaming system, but I did mod an official Raspberry Pi keyboard and added a Raspberry Pi Zero W to it. I cutout holes for the HDMI, USB and power ports as well as added an LED and power button for safe shutdowns.

     

    What I would do with that XBOX One S would be to set it up in our play room so that my little boy and I could play Minecraft and Roblox together. He enjoys playing those games on our XBOX, but I think it would be great to have to ability to play together online with this one.

     

    Also, since this XBOX has dual HDMI, one for In and one for Out, I might try to take the HDMI In off the main board and see if I can solder a Raspberry Pi Zero to in there and turn it into a retro gaming console on one side and keep the XBOX side for modern gaming image

     

    Here is a top-down view of the keyboard with the power button sticking out

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    Inside of the Pi with power and LED wires hooked up

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    Here is the back view with the holes cutout for the cables

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    Here is another back view with the cables attached and power on. Had to purchase a short USB Micro to USB Micro for the Pi to Keyboard. I may solder those pins later on to lessen the clutter, but I enjoy using this as a keyboard for my other PIs and having this one internal

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    PS. - If that keyboard doesn't work, below is a picture of an arcade cabinet I built with my FiL that is running a Pi 3B+ with RetroPie. Also, cute pic of my little boy playing some old school Mario on it image

     

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    Edit: Fixed Xbox Out to In for Raspberry Pi and clarified what I would use the Xbox a bit more

  • in reply to spr4gue

    Good use of embedding hardware! Does your son get involved in the modding too, or just the end result?

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  • in reply to a531016

    Thanks! He enjoys watching me build and seeing the end result. I bought a raspberry pi kit to begin on the basics with him, he has really enjoyed working with that. When I put the the LED in the keyboard he got excited since that was the first project we did together was making one light up. He’s only five, but I plan on him being a System Admin by the time he’s seven, he needs to spend his sixth year of life getting certified