portable making...so much work?

[zake]

ive been looking around at portable relating things for a long time, reading up, looking for sellers...and when i opened my ps2 to try this, i thought "....theres not as many wires as shown in WIP videos on youtube, or pictures" i also noticed, theres a lot of sauldering required, a small screen, etc. so i have a few questions

1: whats the lowest price i can possibly get for a small screen?
2: cant i just snip the power cord for my ps2, then attach it to a battery holder, and let it run off the batteries?
3: how do you get the video onto the screen without 3 color plugs? i meen like, where to saulder depending on what screen you use?

im sorry if any of this is very vague...please help?

[thewise1]

1. A good 3.5" screen can be about $30
2. you can do this with anything
3. you really just have to solder the video, left, and right signals. And then ground.

[zake]

And then ground.

ground? im sorry, but i dont follow, please explain?

[thewise1]

Basically negative.

Like negative on a battery

It gives the electricity a place to go. It's common among everything. Hence common ground, you'll here that a lot on these forums, we don't really say negative.

[zake]

confusing but i guess i understand...

[thewise1]

ground = negative on a battery

That's the simplest way to describe it.

[zake]

yea, so the screen gets electricity to run, right?

[thewise1]

Yeah, the power goes through the positive screen terminal, and comes out the ground and goes back into the battery as used electricity.

[zake]

i understand it now! thank you so much! but uhh...one more thing

i wanna put the screen on the ps2 lid, and the controller over the ports part, is it possible to do that without sauldering things to keep the controller there?

[Metallica Man X]

It's always possible with enough hot glue

[zake]

lol, but then i have the mem card to worry about, itll be in the way of my hand, any ideas there? and the same problem with the controllers cord

[palmertech]

You will need to solder if you want it to look anything near decent.

[zake]

looks like im buying a soldering iron, and a screen i guess

[ghosstt]

Not to be a grammar-nazi, but its solder, not saulder. That will take you a long way in a place like this. Good grammar, nice attitude, and asking intelligent questions.

[zake]

i probly wont get anywhere here for a LONG time then.....