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

This is the portable Raspbery Pi powered Retrorig I created last year in my college dorm.

Side view shows the kickstand that folds out, charging port in lower right hand corner, and access to Raspberry Pi USB ports.

It features a custom 12.6V battery pack made from 3 li-ion 18650 batteries, a 7 inch display, a built in 8ohm speaker, a potentiometer volume knob, 5 buttons to control the settings of the LCD panel, HDMI out for playing on a larger TV, audio out for headphone use, and up to 4 player gaming with wireless xbox controllers.

Here is a view of the 3D model in Fusion 360 that I designed. The case is entirely 3D printed using my TEVO Tornado and the device currently stands today as my primary game console .

XBOX ONE S: If I win the Xbox One S, I would make a table with a hidden compartment that opens with a remote to reveal a Xbox/Projector hybrid + controllers, turning my seemingly blank wall into a giant screen. Then I would proceed to play Red Dead Redemption 2 for multiple days straight...

P.S. Thank you for this excellent giveaway Element14! It was really cool to see everyone's projects! Good luck everyone!

That's a nice mod, did you re use the original game boy PCB for the buttons on the front?

I like the sound of an integrated Xbox!

That's an interesting idea. How do you find it to use, do you use it much?

Pass butter? Now that I'd like to see!

Great project, have you considered upgrading to a Pi4? With a mod for cooling you could have a killer machine there?

Good luck, I like table PC cases, so why not an Xbox version!

Thanks! I hope to make an improved version at some point with the pi 4, but I added a heat sync and a small fan to this version recently that allows most games to run smoothly.

So I think am not eligible for this awesome Giveaway. And I also hope more such Giveaways come by.

I never had a Hardware gadgets to mod and thinker about. Here in India I couldn't afford one of those awesome gadgets they costed a lot.

But more than Hardware Mods I do something called software tweaking. I call myself as a Junior Software Engineer (JUST FUN). I do a lot of experiments with my PC (My World). Some of my small projects were -

- PacMan (Not just a PacMan but a Multiplayer PacMan using JS)

- Tweaked a PS3 OS for Overclocking the hardware. One of my friends helped he in adding the water cooling.

- DevNetHost (A simple software for quickly forwarding ports and also creating micro sites for short term use)

- A basic LFS image (Linux From Scratch)

- I often do help some small businesses in my locality put up Google Business.

My Current Projects

- R4R (Resource for Resource)

- XeonAJ-OS (I call it my super intelligent OS)

My XBOX Idea -

Not really Great but I think it would work right.

IDEA 1) Me and friends are already thinking to alter the Xbox OS. This OS is almost made like our beloved Windows 10 OS but with a lot of secure enhancement. So we just found some ways to edit the OS image in a emulated environment and reload it back to Xbox One. We aren't sure if this is ever gonna be a success as we have never been exposed to Xbox console's other than a PS3 used some years back. If we win this giveaway this will be our first ever Xbox OS MOD. Xbox One SDK are leaked so modding there software should be a easy start. (From https://www.se7ensins.com/forums/forums/xbox-one-modding.463/ )

IDEA 2) Well on the hardware side. I love RGBs so adding some RGB extending the power from a internal power supply and connecting it to a Rpi0 for contol which would sync with my Windows PC Gaming theme. Maybe add Another Rpi0 for controlling the power and another wireless controller connected to some more USB connection. And changing the internal HDD to SSD (LATER).

So what happens is I simple connect Xbox One S to a display do some manual settings then remove the display and just keep the xbox powered.

And when I need to play some games I can simple send a command to the Rpi0 which will turn on the Xbox and another command to start controlling the Xbox from my PC and another command to start playing a game from xbox on my PC. This is way cool.

Am sorry I have done a really small Hardware mod with my laptop on which I play Games. My laptop often gets super hot during gaming sessions. I just added a external CPU fan taken from a old desktop. i had also added a extra WiFi card for wireless pen testing.

I had detached the parts from my PC during holiday break out!

Never modded any gaming console on my own.

But I would like to share a xbox 360 laptop project of my friends and I helped them for brief period of time back in 2012 when they were working on its first prototype version.

I helped my friends in its custom Arduino PCB, touch sensor programming and interfacing of Laptop LCD with xbox 360.

All the details are available here.

https://www.instructables.com/id/Build-an-Arduino-powered-Laser-cut-Xbox-360-laptop/.

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

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

Inside of the Pi with power and LED wires hooked up

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

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

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

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

Software is normally pretty integral to most mods, especially if you are adding an MCU to add features, or in this case trying to mod a system tied to a hardware configuration. Don't be shy of your hardware mod, no one's first build was a beautiful expensive bit of kit with a load of polish!