Handheld computer systems have grow to be very a lot a part of the {hardware} hacker scene, as the appearance of single board computer systems lengthy on processor energy however brief on energy consumption has given us the instruments we have to construct them ourselves. Handheld retrocomputers face one thing of an uphill battle although, as most of the parts are over-sized, and use lots of energy. [Changliang Li] has taken on the duty although, placing an industrial Pentium PC in a reasonably well-designed SLA printed case.
Apart from the motherboard there’s a VGA display, a CompactFlash card connected to the IDE interface, and a Logitech trackball. So far as we are able to see the facility comes from a USB-C PD board, and there’s a cut up mechanical keyboard on the highest aspect. It runs Home windows 98, and a number of peak ’90s video games are introduced out to exhibit.
We like this mission for its stunning case and efficient use of elements, however we’re curious whether or not as an alternative of the Pentium board it may need been value discovering a later industrial PC to offer it a higher breadth of potentialities, there being few x86 SBCs. Both approach it will have blown our minds again in ’98, and we are able to see it’s a ton of enjoyable right now. Check out the machine within the video beneath the break.
Thanks [Stephen Walters] for the tip.
