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Inside the Nintendo DSi
MAKE Magazine —
Bunnie (Chumby engineer and all around hardware hacker) got a Nintendo DSi... and took it apart...
I couldn’t help myself from buying one of these…and taking it apart. The DSi is pretty cool: it has not one, but two, cameras embedded in it. One faces forward so you can see yourself, and the other can be used to take pictures of others. Compared to the DS-lite, it’s a little bit thinner, isn’t compatible with the old charger, and more prominently features wifi connectivity status. The speakers are also a bit beefier. Finally, the feature I ...
Nintendo DSi unceremonially torn apart and examined
CrunchGear —
You know the drill. A hot new gadget launches and someone - most often a nerd-type - tears it apart for some circuit board pr0n. Hey, we can’t blame ‘em and the next up in this age-old ritual is the Nintendo DSi. The new handheld just launched to an eager Japanese gaming crowd last week, selling over 200,000 in the first few days alone. Chances are one of those units is what we are looking at here as the gaming system doesn’t launch in the States until next summer. Anyway, nothing to ground breaking here but the ...
Nintendo DSi teardown
Hack a Day —
... while in Japan. It seems he had the device running less than an hour before he tore it down for an impromptu hotel photoshoot. There’s nothing too surprising and he mentions that the CPU certainly feels more capable than the previous model, which may explain the shorter battery life. The ARM processor sits under an RF shield directly below the WiFi card. The best photo is the top side of the board with every single debug point labeled in plain English on the silkscreen. We’re sure that’ll help ...
Deconstructed DSi Reveals Beefier Processor Might Be Draining Battery Life [Nintendo DSi]
Gizmodo —
... "The markings on the CPU package yield no clues about its performance, but my guess is that any ARM9 or ARM11 CPU manufactured in 2007 would have a performance around the 266-533 MHz range," Bunnie says, adding that Linux could have a field day playing around on this system. Hackers, get going! [Bunnie's Blog via ...
Nintendo DSi Taken Apart, Guts Shown to World
Tech Blog —
... There may be a new culprit for the Nintendo DSi's poor battery life: "the drain might be due to a beefier processor and speakers housed within." Click here for first picture in gallery.
The beefing up arrives, apparently, because of Nintendo's multimedia plans concerning the portable - mainly the new sound, video and photo manipulation features.
[via Gizmodo - Bunniestudios]
The Cause of DSi's Reduced Battery Power Might Be... [Nintendo]
Kotaku —
... juice power: between 1 and six hours. From the teardown, it seems that the DSi's torqued up processor and speakers get the finger pointing and not the new, larger screens. Bunnie's blog, which did the DSi dissection, writes: "The markings on the CPU package yield no clues about its performance, but my guess is that any ARM9 or ARM11 CPU manufactured in 2007 would have a performance around the 266-533 MHz range." More nitty-gritty and gruesomely fascinating pictures in the link below. Inside the Nintendo DSi [bunnie's blog via ...
Nintendo's DSi gets cracked wide open
Engadget —
... It's only fair, really. We've seen both the DS and the DS Lite exposed under the camera, and now it's time for the DSi to suffer the same humiliation. As expected, things are pretty packed on the motherboard, and there's oodles of green underneath the ...
Inside the DSi: battery life reduced to fuel beefier CPU
Boing Boing Gadgets —
... for the DSi and 850 mAh for the DS-lite), as it can do all kinds of real-time image manipulation tricks on the video feeds, and it also has a built-in minigame for audio streams where you can loop in samples over music files and do some low-quality pitch distortion on the fly. The markings on the CPU package yield no clues about its performance, but my guess is that any ARM9 or ARM11 CPU manufactured in 2007 would have a performance around the 266-533 MHz range.
Inside the Nintendo DSi [Bunnie Studios]
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