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DIY Dreamcast Tablet [Video]

, Mar 31st 2009 Discuss [1]

Take the guts of a Sega Dreamcast, fashion an ejecting GD-Drive mechanism and stuff it all into a 15-inch monitor housing, and you may end up with this: the Dreamcast Tablet.  Maker WERD of the Benheck forums also stuffed some batteries in there too, meaning the console is now good for up to 3.5hrs of standalone runtime.

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Video demo after the cut

If you have access to a bigger screen, you can plug the Dreamcast Tablet in and use it as a normal console.  It’ll simultaneously play and recharge, too, meaning it’s always ready for your next road-trip. 

The casing is made from acrylic and measures 13.5 x 11 x 2; the front panel of the donor Dell LCD was reused for the front of the Tablet, since it already fit.  A Dell sound bar donated its speakers for use with a 1W amp, though there’s also a headphone socket (that mutes the speakers) for private use.

[via Gizmodo]

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