{"id":51,"date":"2012-01-30T00:46:57","date_gmt":"2012-01-30T00:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hownottofixacar.com\/?p=51"},"modified":"2012-01-30T00:46:57","modified_gmt":"2012-01-30T00:46:57","slug":"some-thoughts-on-layout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hownottofixacar.com\/?p=51","title":{"rendered":"Some thoughts on layout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So bread took up most of today. Scratch that, sleep, not being arsed to get out of bed and bread took up most of today. In that order. Decreasing order.<\/p>\n<p>But, I did do so<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hownottofixacar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/IMG_20120129_205940.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-53\" title=\"Design plan\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hownottofixacar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/IMG_20120129_205940-300x132.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"314\" height=\"138\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.hownottofixacar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/IMG_20120129_205940-300x132.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.hownottofixacar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/IMG_20120129_205940-1024x453.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.hownottofixacar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/IMG_20120129_205940-500x221.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 314px) 100vw, 314px\" \/><\/a>me thinking about how I&#8217;m going to lay out this portable GameCube. My vision of what it should look like is something like this image on the right, and I think its going to be pretty close.<\/p>\n<p>Some rough estimates look like I should be able to get another 2 battery packs in there so 9.6Ah * 3 = 28.8Ah? Should be good anyway, the GameCube power supply says 3.25A at 12V so should be looking at around 8-9 hours battery life, which in all honesty, is pretty good but that doesn&#8217;t take into account the LCD.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hownottofixacar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/IMG_20120129_205757.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-54\" title=\"Gamecube Layout\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hownottofixacar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/IMG_20120129_205757-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.hownottofixacar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/IMG_20120129_205757-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.hownottofixacar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/IMG_20120129_205757-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.hownottofixacar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/IMG_20120129_205757-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Still it is going to be pretty bulky and these extra battery packs are really just there because there is going to be space. Issue is, I really want it to have the disc drive central on the back. Sorta like the&#8230; well completely like the PSP did, essentially this is what I&#8217;m aiming for. That&#8217;s what takes up the space, clearly if I put the disc drive to one side and just had the one battery it&#8217;d be only just bigger than the screen.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway as you can see from the photo it&#8217;s going to be a little&#8230; wide, especially with the controller halfs on the sides. Not too bad though, its about 2 inches either side of the screen before the controller and it does allow for the extra batterys. Biggest bonus though is its going to be pretty thin&#8230; comparatively, not much more than the controller, this was my biggest fear initially that you&#8217;d have the controller and about 3 inches back from that as more case.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hownottofixacar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/IMG_20120129_2059101.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-56\" title=\"Depth of it\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hownottofixacar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/IMG_20120129_2059101-1024x387.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.hownottofixacar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/IMG_20120129_2059101-1024x387.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.hownottofixacar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/IMG_20120129_2059101-300x113.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.hownottofixacar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/IMG_20120129_2059101-500x189.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As an aside of sorts I found a while back something I&#8217;m really not trying to make: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-mZ5O3ifid8\">The Ccube<\/a>. The successor to that actually looks pretty swish, if a bit pricey at 800-1000USD (I assume US) seeing as you can pick up everything I&#8217;ve got for under 100 quid and my battery life is going to be excessively more than that one&#8217;s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So bread took up most of today. Scratch that, sleep, not being arsed to get out of bed and bread took up most of today. In that order. Decreasing order. But, I did do some thinking about how I&#8217;m going to lay out this portable GameCube. My vision of what it should look like is &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hownottofixacar.com\/?p=51\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Some thoughts on layout&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hownottofixacar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hownottofixacar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hownottofixacar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hownottofixacar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hownottofixacar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.hownottofixacar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58,"href":"http:\/\/www.hownottofixacar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions\/58"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hownottofixacar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hownottofixacar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hownottofixacar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}