House consoles have been by no means supposed to be made transportable, although enterprising hackers have at all times pushed the boundaries with numerous methods and revolutionary builds. [Robotanv] hasn’t constructed a completely handheld Xbox Sequence S, however he has demonstrated one neat trick: making one run on a USB powerbank.

The undertaking begins with an Anker USB-C powerbank, chosen for its capacity to ship a mighty 140 watts. It’s hooked as much as a ZY12PDN USB-C set off board, which permits the powerbank and tells it which voltage to output. It’s set as much as run at 20 volts, which is an excessive amount of for the Xbox, which prefers 12 volts. The explanation for that is that the one solution to get the complete energy out of the powerbank is to run at its most voltage. A buck converter is used to step down the voltage to 12 volts.

As for the console itself, quite a lot of disassembly is required, however minimal modifications. Simply two wires join the ability provide to the Xbox’s motherboard. Subbing in your individual 12 volt provide right here is sufficient to run the console with none issues.

Working the Xbox off the powerbank, together with an exterior display, [Robotanv] is ready to play Cyberpunk 2077 for an about hour earlier than the juice runs out. Whereas we’d like to see the entire setup duct-taped collectively right into a ersatz Xbox transportable, it will in all probability be slightly messy. [Robotanv] has large plans for the way forward for the undertaking, although, and we will’t wait to see what these are.