This project started as I have seen a few people dammage their xbox consoles by atempting vga and hdmi mods and this was a good solid solution and it is semi plug and play and will give you a reliable shielded impedance matched signals with plugs.
It also will buffer the internal h and vsync signals to 5v to give you proper vga compliant signals with a suitable bios that is.
This weekend I managed to get the use of a roland versacad vinal printer and draw to scale pictures of the circuitboard I made and lay it over the xbox console motherboad to verify it will all fit, sadly my measurments were a little bit out but I now know I have a final design that will fit all xbox versions.
I have also added some some breakout boards if you want to go that way, or some sort of internal adaptor or converter.
I have managed to find vertical toslink adaptor and vertical pcb mounting rca connectors of simular dimention so I can mount the board direct on the back of the xbox with a 10mm spacer as oposed to a right angle mount pcb sockets.
you will notice that the component board provides every signal via rca connectors to the back of the xbox and it has a gap on either side where i would suggest you could place something else there, Im still looking for a 3.5mm vertical socket 10mm high to power an external adaptor.
I have included bill of materials the program and all the various boards after verifying that they actually fit now
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Please see the rar file for more info or the instalation manual uploaded to google docs below:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ht7 ... sp=sharing
Of note the system is based around a PICAXE-14M2 (smd) for ease of a user to modify using a three wire serial connection (in circuit).
The picaxe system enables any one to reprogram it with not too much hassle, both flow chart and basic programs are provided as samples.
I thaught of combining an xirc into this as the m2 does virual multitasking and has a learing IR code library embeded and a small eprom to store IR codes it would just need to be connected to stand by power and a handfull of components to remote power on the xbox from an IR remote control, but hey ill leave that up to you guys to modify looking forward to seeing a version 2 from someone
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This project was done in eagle which is free to use and can be found here:
http://www.cadsoftusa.com/download-eagle/
edit updated project pcb to pass board verification and link to manual.
edit update to program.