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From Steam Deck to Steam Brick.

To make the Steam Deck even more portable, modder Crastinator-pro stripped the handheld down to the bare essentials needed to play games while connected to a TV or pair of AR glasses.

The smaller and lighter Steam Brick says goodbye to the Steam Deck’s screen, controls, and battery and stuffs the remaining electronics into a custom 3D-printed housing featuring just a USB port and a power button.

The custom Steam Brick console next to all the parts of the Steam Deck that had to be stripped away to make it.
The Steam Brick makes the Steam Deck an even more portable console by stripping away its built-in controls and screen.
Image: Crastinator-pro / GitHub
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