I ordered a Magedok 10" display and just received it today. Testing it out with a USB-C hub with HDMI out (and I’m sure it would work with the expansion card too), and it works and looks fine. It’s not OLED but IPS, and I got it at a discount, and for what I paid the display is great, with no strong variation or leakage of backlight brightness viewing it from the front.
Used one of the cheap mini USB 2.0 hub boards, soldered with a cable to a USB-C connector for power, so I am able to power this 10 inch display directly from the mainboard.
It is a 2560x1600 display (more than my desktop monitor!) so integer scaling with 1280x800 is possible but I prefer to keep it at 1440x900- it feels like the sweet spot for this size and hardware.
Another possibility with the monitor is a dock-style gamepad/computer where you can slot in the monitor and connect video and USB from one side. It would still be a bit bulky, but would be more elegant than having a screen with huge bezel.
Agreed, outside of the steam deck, they would have by far the most repairable handheld if they went this route…especially if they worked with Valve on SteamOS compatibility. I would personally work with the ChimeraOS team to get their SteamOS-like distro working on there well too.
Wanted to give a small update that I have been doing tests for a possible handheld with the mainboard. Originally I was going to have the FW battery stacked above the board, but @CJ_Elevated cautioned against this for safety reasons. So I have made a custom USB-C battery bank using a IC2368 power/charging controller with 4 Lithium-Ion cylindrical batteries. It does the job fine and what makes this especially nice is that physical configuration of the batteries is more flexible.
Dude. I am about to try to do the exact same thing for my project. Can you please provide more details about what you did? This is to say, I’m either going to create a built-in battery bank in my device or I’m going to reconfigure the stock battery’s BMS and cells to hold more watt hours. I think that the former might be easier, though.
I went with the recommendation for the IC2368 through GreatScott! demonstrating how to build a custom bank with it, and also seeing it brought up in some battery related subreddits. So followed the wiring from GreatScott who also did some testing and theory with the datasheet, which helped speed up understanding the process.
I still checked the resistor values of the board I received to make sure that it is configured to my needs (4S Li-Ion and 5A charging mode). A 4S balancer board is required first to group the batteries. Following the video I connect the 4S positive end of the battery bank and P- of the balance board to the positive and negative terminals of the IC2368 board respectively. A big limitation of this board is there is only one port for both input and output so pass-through charging is not possible.
@ccRicers It sounds like you and I have gone through a nearly identical process.
My IP2368 board arrives tomorrow along with a bench power supply. The load tester will be here in a couple of weeks as well.
Although at this point I’m also going to try to just re-cell the stock 55whr to something around 100whr and reprogram the OEM bms using TI’s software. I also need to dig into the EC code more to see if I need to alter the charging behavior of the laptop that way to make sure things don’t go boom.
Thanks for your reply, and good luck with your project!
Anyone here think we can get first or third-party JoyCons connected via wired JoyCon rails? I found a reliable AliExpress listing selling a pair for less than $10, and if we could get connectors for the ribbon cables to slide into, perhaps we could get a wired connection that would work even in Airplane Mode.
Worth a look? Recently found someone else on another Discord channel post their handheld creation. I like how more people are creating their own versions of a Framework handheld. The use of mech key PCBs is also cool.
I don’t have the patience to record or edit videos like this guy does, though, and this looks like a great result.
