Assembling the Clockwork OS Shell Unit: A Step-by-Step Guide

We're gonna use the longest one because it needs to run to the very bottom of the shell itself and the final wire lead as long as you're not using the light key on the back will be for the keypad or the joypad whatever you want to call it it's another four wire connector it's going to go over on the right-hand side of the main board with all of the leads plugged into the mainboard.

It's time to connect them to the other modules first up we have battery to wire connector right on the side here after I get this plugged in I'm just gonna flip it back over make sure the wire is long enough looks pretty good from here. Next up we have the keypad we're gonna go with the keypad plug the four wire pin on the left-hand side of the main board into the left-hand side of the keypad and the final thing we'll need to connect is the speaker and I'll wait until I get everything inside of this shell itself.

As you can see it's all put together here we could power it up and use it just like this but we want to inside of the shell nice and snug everything fits perfectly in here you're gonna have to kind of push it down a little bit you want to make sure that ribbon cable is not in the way when you put the front shell on I kind of folded it in on itself do not crease it you should also receive a few little rubber grommets these are made to hold the wires in place there's specific spots in the shell itself and you might want to grab something to push them in.

We'll just put the grommet in there it's gonna hold that wire down won't go anywhere now we're gonna do the same thing over on this side for the battery connector and the speaker connector I noticed that getting this one in was a little bit of a pain because there are four wires one of them kept popping out on me did take me a second to get it in I might have to do it a few times there we go now we have the speaker wire in place.

We're gonna connect the speaker now there are two speakers inside of here it is stereo sound and it gets pretty loud it's gonna sit right here on the bottom. We got everything put together all we need to do now is make sure all of our buttons are in place put our d-pad on and then we're gonna slap the top shell on the whole unit.

The LCD ribbon cable can get in the way but you can kind of tuck it down inside do not bend it you don't want to risk breaking it. Shell's gonna snap on from the very bottom and then we have two little connectors to hold it on each side they look like little volume rockers all they are for is holding the case together.

I want to break them off of this tree here and put them right on another thing I should have mentioned is make sure you put your SD card in. I actually almost forgot it on the mainboard before I started assembling everything slide your SD card in as soon as you put your mainboard together if you ever need to reflash your SD card for some reason you can flash it to pretty much any SD card using win32diskimager or at your i'll leave a link in the description to the clockwork PI forum they offer the clockwork OS for download over there.

I'm now done assembling it I love the way it looks it feels really good make sure you clean up these buttons sometimes they are a little sticky if you don't get the rest of the tree off of them like I mention you can hit it with a little exacto knife or a piece of sandpaper. I made sure I file all of mine down I think this thing looks amazing we're gonna go ahead and boot it up for the first time hold the power button for a couple seconds should go right into the clockwork OS.

If you want to check out some gameplay and performance I will leave links in the description to videos I have made I will be doing more videos so if you want to see something running on here let me know in the comments below and I'll get it up and going right off the bat this will not run PSP this will not run in 64 but I will be testing as much as possible on this unit that's pretty much it for this video guys I really appreciate you watching clockwork OS looks beautiful I had one of my viewers say it reminds him of the old iPod and it surely does it's kind of black and white now the screens not black and white it is full color when you're running your emulators but the OS was made to look very minimalistic and they did an amazing job really appreciate you guys watching.

If you could hit that like button subscribe to the channel don't forget to check out my other videos in the description below and like always thanks for watching

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwhat's going on guys is CTA prying back here again today where I'm gonna be putting together a game shell this is by clockwork Pi previously uploaded another video showing off some performance this is by far my favorite handheld to date I'm sure in the future there will be better ones but for now I'm in love with this thing if you're not familiar with the game shell like I mentioned I do have another video you can check that out but what it is is a modular do-it-yourself gaming device slash Linux computer comes with all the parts here that you need to get going it was available on IndieGoGo and as of right now you cannot buy one you can sign up for the pre-order list and I'll leave links in the description below hopefully a lot of people can get their hands on one and by the way I actually have three more of these coming I was their super backer for referrals and I'm gonna be giving all three away on my channel so go ahead and hit that subscribe button turn notifications on so you know when I upload my next video because I will be receiving them within the next one to two weeks alright so we're digging a little deeper here these are the modular cases now all of the PCB and electronics go inside of these you kind of break them off like the old-school Ninja Turtle weapons that came with your little action figures you will have to assemble this yourself but it is very very easy and they send you an awesome illustrated guide that explains everything I'm just gonna give you a quick look at this main board now this is where all the magic happens this has a quad core all winner r16 J cpu 512 megabytes of RAM Bluetooth Wi-Fi SD card reader controller input everything you need is on that one PCB right here we have the shells now this is the back of the case they do offer two different shell types now when I did the IndieGoGo they sent me both of them this is the one without the rear buttons and this is the one that will allow you to attach their light key module so you can add up to five buttons on the rear of the machine normally straight out of the box we have a start select XY be a menu shift and a d-pad as you can see here not much going on but you can still play thousands and thousands of games without the light key module attached to the back of the unit but if you do opt in for that module you'll receive another little kit here that you have to put together you'll get the five buttons for the rear and the PCB the rear buttons don't use rubber conductive pads like all of the front buttons but it'll still get you by they are little momentary switches so they're gonna kind of click when you press them in it'll be perfectly fine for adding rear buttons to something like this and finally they do send you a very detailed guide on putting this thing together you can actually do it in about five minutes if you follow the directions correctly really simple to do the kit I got also a tape reflashed eight gigabyte card with the clockwork OS pre-installed so that was another step I didn't have to do I just plugged it in put it all together turned it on and that was up and running in no time I'm gonna go ahead and assemble this now so he can get to playing some retro games so the first thing you're really gonna want to do is go ahead and break off all of your cases on the little tree does take a little bit of time if you're not using side cutters or an exacto knife first case I'm going for is the screen itself I'm just following along with the instructions we're gonna place the screen in here one thing to note about this it is not glass there is no screen protector on it be very careful make sure you don't have any lint behind it when you close the screen case next up I'm going to be assembling the mainboard section so we have a clear piece for the back so we can see through it see all the internals and then there's kind of a frosted piece for the front because we're not gonna see it through the case itself do yourself a favor and get a pair of side cutters or an x-acto knife it's a little bit of a pain breaking these off and you really don't want to damage them I mean they're pretty heavy-duty but just to be safe use a tool to separate them from the tree this is the main board just make sure you line up all of the outputs on the case and on the very front of the case or actually it'll be the back that clear piece it is clearly marked tells you exactly what port does what basically the cpu GPU combo that's inside of here is pretty much on par with the Raspberry Pi 3 one of the biggest issues here is the Raspberry Pi 3 has been around for a long time and there is a huge community so there are way more optimizations out there for the PI's hardware so really we need to get more of these in the hands of developers so they can go ahead and optimize this chipset for the emulators we want to run there's a lot of stuff that runs really smooth out of the box and then there's some stuff that has a couple stutters here and there with sound maybe some screen tearing here and there but overall it's a good experience and it's only gonna get better over time now I'm going for the joypad section they call it the keyboard section I mean I guess it's programmed like a keyboard but to me this is definitely a joypad I just need to twist out the a B X&Y here start and select are going to be rubberized there's a big conductive pad that feels pretty good the D pad and all of the other buttons are hard plastic but it does sit on top of this conductive rubber pad which makes it feel really nice make sure you clean up each button the D pad and all four buttons when you break them off the tree there might be a couple little splinters left on there make sure you get that really nice and smooth because sometimes it could catch on the edge when we put the case on you really don't want it sticking and as long as you have that cleaned up you should have no trouble the d-pad and the buttons will be held in with the front case so don't worry about this you can put them on now if you'd like to I recommend leaving him off it was kind of a pain you know moving this around where they were on as you can see they keep dropping off we're actually almost ready to assemble this I just need to put the battery compartment together and the speaker system this is a three point seven volt lithium-ion battery at 1050 milliamps I just think they did such a great job making this modular I mean some of these pieces can be upgraded down the road and hopefully the company stays around and offers some upgrades like the mainboard itself they could offer an upgraded CPU an upgraded RAM for better performance I think that would definitely take off and a few months from now I would buy one if they released it so I'm just gonna go ahead and skip over the rest of this here we're gonna get into the assembly part it's really easy to put together everything you need to know is in the manual so keep that in mind all right with all the modules assembled it's time to put the whole unit together we're gonna go ahead and grab the main board and the screen itself place it on top like this take the ribbon cable this is a digital ribbon cable it'll act just like HDMI and all the connectors are marked on the case you're just gonna plug that in first now I'm gonna go ahead and plug in the wire connectors one will be for the battery it's a two wire lead the next one will be for the speaker we're gonna use the longest one because it needs to run to the very bottom of the shell itself and the final wire lead as long as you're not using the light key on the back will be for the keypad or the joypad whatever you want to call it it's another four wire connector it's going to go over on the right-hand side of the main board with all of the leads plugged into the mainboard it's time to connect them to the other modules first up we have battery to wire connector right on the side here after I get this plugged in I'm just gonna flip it back over make sure the wire is long enough looks pretty good from here next up we have the keypad we're gonna go with the keypad plug the four wire pin on the left-hand side of the main board into the left-hand side of the keypad and the final thing we'll need to connect is the speaker and I'll wait until I get everything inside of this shell itself as you can see it's all put together here we could power it up and use it just like this but we want to inside of the shell nice and snug everything fits perfectly in here you're gonna have to kind of push it down a little bit you want to make sure that ribbon cable is not in the way when you put the front shell on I kind of folded it in on itself do not crease it you should also receive a few little rubber grommets these are made to hold the wires in place there's specific spots in the shell itself and you might want to grab something to push them in we'll just put the grommet in there it's gonna hold that wire down won't go anywhere now we're gonna do the same thing over on this side for the battery connector and the speaker connector I noticed that getting this one in was a little bit of a pain because there are four wires one of them kept popping out on me did take me a second to get it in I might have to do it a few times there we go now we have the speaker wire in place we're gonna connect the speaker now there are two speakers inside of here it is stereo sound and it gets pretty loud it's gonna sit right here on the bottom we got everything put together all we need to do now is make sure all of our buttons are in place put our d-pad on and then we're gonna slap the top shell on the whole unit the LCD ribbon cable can get in the way but you can kind of tuck it down inside do not bend it you don't want to risk breaking it Shell's gonna snap on from the very bottom and then we have two little connectors to hold it on each side they look like little volume rockers all they are for is holding the case together I want to break them off of this tree here and put them right on another thing I should have mentioned is make sure you put your SD card in I actually almost forgot it on the mainboard before I started assembling everything slide your SD card in as soon as you put your mainboard together if you ever need to reflash your SD card for some reason you can flash it to pretty much any SD card using win32diskimager or at your i'll leave a link in the description to the clockwork PI forum they offer the clockwork OS for download over there I'm now done assembling it I love the way it looks it feels really good make sure you clean up these buttons sometimes they are a little sticky if you don't get the rest of the tree off of them like I mention you can hit it with a little exacto knife or a piece of sandpaper I made sure I file all of mine down I think this thing looks amazing we're gonna go ahead and boot it up for the first time hold the power button for a couple seconds should go right into the clockwork OS if you want to check out some gameplay and performance I will leave links in the description to videos I have made I will be doing more videos so if you want to see something running on here let me know in the comments below and I'll get it up and going right off the bat this will not run PSP this will not run in 64 but I will be testing as much as possible on this unit that's pretty much it for this video guys I really appreciate you watching clockwork OS looks beautiful I had one of my viewers say it reminds him of the old iPod and it surely does it's kind of black and white now the screens not black and white it is full color when you're running your emulators but the OS was made to look very minimalistic and they did an amazing job really appreciate you guys watching if you could hit that like button subscribe to the channel don't forget to check out my other videos in the description below and like always thanks for watchingwhat's going on guys is CTA prying back here again today where I'm gonna be putting together a game shell this is by clockwork Pi previously uploaded another video showing off some performance this is by far my favorite handheld to date I'm sure in the future there will be better ones but for now I'm in love with this thing if you're not familiar with the game shell like I mentioned I do have another video you can check that out but what it is is a modular do-it-yourself gaming device slash Linux computer comes with all the parts here that you need to get going it was available on IndieGoGo and as of right now you cannot buy one you can sign up for the pre-order list and I'll leave links in the description below hopefully a lot of people can get their hands on one and by the way I actually have three more of these coming I was their super backer for referrals and I'm gonna be giving all three away on my channel so go ahead and hit that subscribe button turn notifications on so you know when I upload my next video because I will be receiving them within the next one to two weeks alright so we're digging a little deeper here these are the modular cases now all of the PCB and electronics go inside of these you kind of break them off like the old-school Ninja Turtle weapons that came with your little action figures you will have to assemble this yourself but it is very very easy and they send you an awesome illustrated guide that explains everything I'm just gonna give you a quick look at this main board now this is where all the magic happens this has a quad core all winner r16 J cpu 512 megabytes of RAM Bluetooth Wi-Fi SD card reader controller input everything you need is on that one PCB right here we have the shells now this is the back of the case they do offer two different shell types now when I did the IndieGoGo they sent me both of them this is the one without the rear buttons and this is the one that will allow you to attach their light key module so you can add up to five buttons on the rear of the machine normally straight out of the box we have a start select XY be a menu shift and a d-pad as you can see here not much going on but you can still play thousands and thousands of games without the light key module attached to the back of the unit but if you do opt in for that module you'll receive another little kit here that you have to put together you'll get the five buttons for the rear and the PCB the rear buttons don't use rubber conductive pads like all of the front buttons but it'll still get you by they are little momentary switches so they're gonna kind of click when you press them in it'll be perfectly fine for adding rear buttons to something like this and finally they do send you a very detailed guide on putting this thing together you can actually do it in about five minutes if you follow the directions correctly really simple to do the kit I got also a tape reflashed eight gigabyte card with the clockwork OS pre-installed so that was another step I didn't have to do I just plugged it in put it all together turned it on and that was up and running in no time I'm gonna go ahead and assemble this now so he can get to playing some retro games so the first thing you're really gonna want to do is go ahead and break off all of your cases on the little tree does take a little bit of time if you're not using side cutters or an exacto knife first case I'm going for is the screen itself I'm just following along with the instructions we're gonna place the screen in here one thing to note about this it is not glass there is no screen protector on it be very careful make sure you don't have any lint behind it when you close the screen case next up I'm going to be assembling the mainboard section so we have a clear piece for the back so we can see through it see all the internals and then there's kind of a frosted piece for the front because we're not gonna see it through the case itself do yourself a favor and get a pair of side cutters or an x-acto knife it's a little bit of a pain breaking these off and you really don't want to damage them I mean they're pretty heavy-duty but just to be safe use a tool to separate them from the tree this is the main board just make sure you line up all of the outputs on the case and on the very front of the case or actually it'll be the back that clear piece it is clearly marked tells you exactly what port does what basically the cpu GPU combo that's inside of here is pretty much on par with the Raspberry Pi 3 one of the biggest issues here is the Raspberry Pi 3 has been around for a long time and there is a huge community so there are way more optimizations out there for the PI's hardware so really we need to get more of these in the hands of developers so they can go ahead and optimize this chipset for the emulators we want to run there's a lot of stuff that runs really smooth out of the box and then there's some stuff that has a couple stutters here and there with sound maybe some screen tearing here and there but overall it's a good experience and it's only gonna get better over time now I'm going for the joypad section they call it the keyboard section I mean I guess it's programmed like a keyboard but to me this is definitely a joypad I just need to twist out the a B X&Y here start and select are going to be rubberized there's a big conductive pad that feels pretty good the D pad and all of the other buttons are hard plastic but it does sit on top of this conductive rubber pad which makes it feel really nice make sure you clean up each button the D pad and all four buttons when you break them off the tree there might be a couple little splinters left on there make sure you get that really nice and smooth because sometimes it could catch on the edge when we put the case on you really don't want it sticking and as long as you have that cleaned up you should have no trouble the d-pad and the buttons will be held in with the front case so don't worry about this you can put them on now if you'd like to I recommend leaving him off it was kind of a pain you know moving this around where they were on as you can see they keep dropping off we're actually almost ready to assemble this I just need to put the battery compartment together and the speaker system this is a three point seven volt lithium-ion battery at 1050 milliamps I just think they did such a great job making this modular I mean some of these pieces can be upgraded down the road and hopefully the company stays around and offers some upgrades like the mainboard itself they could offer an upgraded CPU an upgraded RAM for better performance I think that would definitely take off and a few months from now I would buy one if they released it so I'm just gonna go ahead and skip over the rest of this here we're gonna get into the assembly part it's really easy to put together everything you need to know is in the manual so keep that in mind all right with all the modules assembled it's time to put the whole unit together we're gonna go ahead and grab the main board and the screen itself place it on top like this take the ribbon cable this is a digital ribbon cable it'll act just like HDMI and all the connectors are marked on the case you're just gonna plug that in first now I'm gonna go ahead and plug in the wire connectors one will be for the battery it's a two wire lead the next one will be for the speaker we're gonna use the longest one because it needs to run to the very bottom of the shell itself and the final wire lead as long as you're not using the light key on the back will be for the keypad or the joypad whatever you want to call it it's another four wire connector it's going to go over on the right-hand side of the main board with all of the leads plugged into the mainboard it's time to connect them to the other modules first up we have battery to wire connector right on the side here after I get this plugged in I'm just gonna flip it back over make sure the wire is long enough looks pretty good from here next up we have the keypad we're gonna go with the keypad plug the four wire pin on the left-hand side of the main board into the left-hand side of the keypad and the final thing we'll need to connect is the speaker and I'll wait until I get everything inside of this shell itself as you can see it's all put together here we could power it up and use it just like this but we want to inside of the shell nice and snug everything fits perfectly in here you're gonna have to kind of push it down a little bit you want to make sure that ribbon cable is not in the way when you put the front shell on I kind of folded it in on itself do not crease it you should also receive a few little rubber grommets these are made to hold the wires in place there's specific spots in the shell itself and you might want to grab something to push them in we'll just put the grommet in there it's gonna hold that wire down won't go anywhere now we're gonna do the same thing over on this side for the battery connector and the speaker connector I noticed that getting this one in was a little bit of a pain because there are four wires one of them kept popping out on me did take me a second to get it in I might have to do it a few times there we go now we have the speaker wire in place we're gonna connect the speaker now there are two speakers inside of here it is stereo sound and it gets pretty loud it's gonna sit right here on the bottom we got everything put together all we need to do now is make sure all of our buttons are in place put our d-pad on and then we're gonna slap the top shell on the whole unit the LCD ribbon cable can get in the way but you can kind of tuck it down inside do not bend it you don't want to risk breaking it Shell's gonna snap on from the very bottom and then we have two little connectors to hold it on each side they look like little volume rockers all they are for is holding the case together I want to break them off of this tree here and put them right on another thing I should have mentioned is make sure you put your SD card in I actually almost forgot it on the mainboard before I started assembling everything slide your SD card in as soon as you put your mainboard together if you ever need to reflash your SD card for some reason you can flash it to pretty much any SD card using win32diskimager or at your i'll leave a link in the description to the clockwork PI forum they offer the clockwork OS for download over there I'm now done assembling it I love the way it looks it feels really good make sure you clean up these buttons sometimes they are a little sticky if you don't get the rest of the tree off of them like I mention you can hit it with a little exacto knife or a piece of sandpaper I made sure I file all of mine down I think this thing looks amazing we're gonna go ahead and boot it up for the first time hold the power button for a couple seconds should go right into the clockwork OS if you want to check out some gameplay and performance I will leave links in the description to videos I have made I will be doing more videos so if you want to see something running on here let me know in the comments below and I'll get it up and going right off the bat this will not run PSP this will not run in 64 but I will be testing as much as possible on this unit that's pretty much it for this video guys I really appreciate you watching clockwork OS looks beautiful I had one of my viewers say it reminds him of the old iPod and it surely does it's kind of black and white now the screens not black and white it is full color when you're running your emulators but the OS was made to look very minimalistic and they did an amazing job really appreciate you guys watching if you could hit that like button subscribe to the channel don't forget to check out my other videos in the description below and like always thanks for watching\n"