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Concept for Game Slab #33

Open kion-dgl opened 2 days ago

kion-dgl commented 2 days ago

Sketch

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Summary

The slab concept is a 5 inch tablet with a 800 x 480px touch screen powered by a Raspberry Pi CM4. The design is intended to be very minimal, with a power button, volume buttons, head phones, micro-SD card, two usb-c inputs and speakers.

The construction is intended to be tinker-friendly and easy to repair. With two parts of a rectangular case that screw together to hold the shell together. On the back there are two additional panels, one for the Compute Module and Battery that are made accessible for the user to be able to switch them out or upgrade as needed.

The appeal of the design is to use with existing telescopic controllers intended for phones. A user could switch between different controller styles and even orientations depending on the game. The 5:3 aspect ratio is intended to be a middle ground for retro content that could fill the screen with minimal stretching.

kion-dgl commented 2 days ago

Playstation

Pictured with the Backbone One controller (psx)

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Dreamcast

Pictured with the backbone One Controller (xbox)

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Gamecube

Pictured with GameSir G8 Galileo

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Vertical Arcade Games

Pictured with GameSir X2 Pro-Xbox

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kion-dgl commented 2 days ago

Docking

The slab could also be docked to run a full desktop, which can be used for developing and debugging on the device directly.

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