Microsoft’s INSANE Solid Metal XBOX
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OMP8JvGWNY

🤩 awesome modding, building, designing. This is some next level stuff for this channel, 👏 Tito

#Xbox #retrogaming #hardwareMods

I really dislike those cheap multimeters. The probes just keep breaking. I don't know what are they making them out of but i just quickly hacked a goldpin onto it to use jumper wires instead   

#diy #electronics #hardwaremods

#Overclocking time! One of my favourite 286es is getting a makeover!

This one has a weird chipset branded "Solutions", but it turns out it's really a bog-standard (but very cool!) C&T NEAT chipset. The board itself seems to be of the brand Cotek, but that's just going by the stickers on the BIOS and KBC. According to #TheRetroWeb however*, the brand is PCT - but no model name is to be found anywhere. The stock configuration of this board seems to be a 25MHz CPU with a 50MHz crystal driving it. So it's already a damned fast 286 - but there's no reason it can't go even faster!

Well, long story a bit shorter: After some extremely clumsy soldering on my part, I was able to replace the main 50MHz crystal with the Any_Clk, a custom, variable clock generator from MiGron**.

Turns out this machine is stable at 31.25MHz! Now if that doesn't take this 286 well into 386 performance territory, I don't know what will!

See the beautiful close-up pictures in this post (details in the alt-texts), and look for benchmarks and a hint of drama in the follow-ups!

#retrocomputing #hardwaremods #286 #needforspeed

• https://theretroweb.com/motherboards/s/pct-unknown ** https://migronelectronics.bigcartel.com/product/any-clk-devices-for-ibm-xt-286-386-486-overclocking-underclocking

leggomyfroggo makes very small #GameBoy Color the "Tad Boy Color"

Full video with many details of design and building
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8J0pez9aE7g

Github project
https://github.com/leggomyfroggo/TBC

#gbdev #hardwaremods #modding #gameboycolor #retrogaming #nintendo

Short Stack mod shrinks the Nintendo Wii down to the size of a deck of cards

The Nintendo Wii is relatively small by game console standards, measuring 157 x 60 x 197mm (6.2″ x 2.4″ x 7.8″). But that doesn’t mean it couldn’t be smaller.
Hardware modder James Smith took the guts of a Nintendo Wii and put them into a new custom case that’s about the same size as a deck of playing cards. The […]

https://liliputing.com/?p=168109

#gameConsole #hardwareMods #loopj #nintendoWii #shortStack #wii

Had to open the mouse again. After replacing the switches, one of them - the left clicker - was slightly misaligned, requiring more force than normal to click and making double-clicking really hard.

One day I will be able to solder stuff correctly the on the first try, until then, I'll have to deal with the same of reworking...

#DYI #mouse #righttorepair #hardwaremods