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At first glance, I thought this was a hacked Game Boy Advance... I was wrong.
Here are a few pics of my own DTV Hummer project. I had an old PSOne LCD screen lying around and I thought I'd make a C64 laptop. Actually, it's more like a C64 PDA! It measures 6.5 x 6 x 1.5 inches (15.5 x 16.5 x 4 cm) when closed. It can run from an AC wall adapter or 6 NiMH AA batteries. The keyboard is hacked from a portable folding keyboard for a Jornada PDA which outputs RS-232. I'm using a PIC 16F88 to decode the signals and re-encode them to PS/2 (that was an ordeal to figure out). The PIC checks to see if an external PS/2 keyboard is connected on power up.
Here are some of the innards. It was originally a Hummer. I cut the power supply part of the PCB off and supplied my own regulated 3.3V. [via]- Link
Bad-Ass!!
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This is the coolest thing I have seen. I wish someone would make these for resell. I would pay up to 300 bucks for one of these. LOL
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Very cool indeed. Very tiny -- and he didn't even use aluminum or polycarbonate for the case, surface mount parts for the serial/PS2 adapter, or a flat LiPo battery pack. I guess the screen was the factor limiting how small it could be made, unless some of that ovoid circuit board could be safely sawed off.
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mutissss
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I call BS. Where is the C64 motherboard? Or is this just an external display and keyboard for an external C64 mobo?
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