Project DIY Shield Announcement
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2014-05-07
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The Arc midi R2 by fractal design features massive air flow and highly
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flexible liquid cooling support click now to learn more so we're here with a
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bit of an impromptu video um I'm here with the inventor of
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the whatever you can be like Steve Jobs you invented it I just just take credit
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for someone else's work yeah pretty much anyways I saw a demonstration
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someone strapped a phone to an Xbox controller and then was able to
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wirelessly connect the Xbox controller to his computer and use a program called
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Splashtop to stream the his monitor to
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his phone so he could basically make a ghetto Shield
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then so here's the uh here's what we got going on right here there's some Counter
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Strike being played on a computer downstairs this is being streamed
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wirelessly on a Galaxy S3 um looks pretty good 800x 600 right
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800x 600 on the desktop it looks very crisp here though um so what we were
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thinking is we're going to take a little bit further than the demonstration that I saw and we're going to do a wired
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version so you can have your controller plugged directly into your phone and
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play Android games that way a wireless version so you can have your controller
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connected wirelessly to your computer and play desktop games that way and we
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were thinking about throwing a SNES controller in there for some awesomeness as well so basically by the time we
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invest in a couple of Xbox controllers
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and an OTG cable and free software you
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can basically make a ghetto shield for under 100 bucks be able to pull that
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down a bit just estimated now it doesn't have the uh it doesn't have the battery
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life benefit of Shield um doesn't have necessarily the all-in-one convenience
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of shield no and you're you have some black bars on the side and there's yada
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y y y y but you're saving a bunch of money and it's kind of fun and it has
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data and and it has data so we're guys we're going to we're going to bring you
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sort of the the the ghetto the ghetto Shield sometime in the next little bit
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here but we're thinking something like a cell phone case so that you can actually
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snap your your phone into the piece that
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that sits mounted to the controller so you'd have like two dedicated controllers a wireless and a wired one
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and then your phone which can just go in and out as much as you want and we've
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we've got a bunch of plans but we don't know exactly what's going to work yet but we know that we can make a wireless
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and wired version already so we're going to go with that for now wish us luck and
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