The PlayStation 4 was a popular enough console, but it was a home console. If you wanted to play at a friend’s house, you had to unplug all your cables and haul the whole lot over there. Unless, that is, you built something along the lines of [Rudd van Falier]’s Portable GameStation.
It’s not a super-complicated build, but it is a well-executed one. It combines laser cut acrylic with 3D-printed brackets to produce a housing that looks clean, sharp, and of almost commercial quality. That’s the benefit of laser-cutting—it avoids all the ugly problems of layer lines. From there, [Rudd] simply set about stuffing the PS4 motherboard inside, along with placing the relevant ports and vents in the housing where needed. A screen with inbuilt speakers was then attached to complete the build. The one thing it’s missing is a set of batteries for playing it on the bus. This thing needs mains power to run.
We’d love to see [Rudd] take another stab at the concept, making it fully independent from cables. It’s definitely possible. Who wouldn’t want to play some Persona 5 Royal on the train, anyway? Video after the break.
What? A portable ps4 that is easier to move than a regular one? That’s nosense, portable things have to be harder to move than regular ones.
I literally clicked on the article because I had to make sure I read that right.
I think it’s a typo, I mean think about it nobody in history has ever made a portable version of something with the intent of making it easier to transport… otherwise it would be called “transible” or there’d be some kind of word whose definition specifically connotes that
should have just said it was a screen attached to it
Well… I would certainly HOPE so?