I Built a Gaming TV Box from an S23 and an Old Mac mini
Hey guys, I’ve made an abomination! I had laying around old MacMini and broken S23. So I’ve made this. I kept the original cooler and connected the power button to the motherboard. I put inside an USB-PD 35W charger that is connected to the HUB.
I didn’t want to solder cables to the HUB so I put there a 12V power supply for the original fan and buck converter to 5v for the ESP32.
The ESP32 is controlling the fan via a temperature sensor I took from Ender 3 that I had laying around.
I’m still working on an app that would connect to the ESP32 (its working now but its not ideal yet)
Sadly the S23 do not start without a battery (I originally intended to remove the battery)
wifi is terrible but works. I wanted to find out what pins are for the antenna and solder U.FL IPX cable but I give up for now( the usb to ethernet adapter works well and bluetooth for controller is fine so far)
The HUB have M.2 slot that I intend to use on game ROMs for the emulation(I will finally play Shadow of Colossus!)
The M.2 fit so well that i put a thermal pad on the heatsink so the SSD will get some cooling too.
Edit: i will do later a follow up with some improvements and more detailed breakdown!