Custom Acrylic Nintendo Controller
Moderator:Moderators
Hey fellas! Haven't posted here in a while, but I've finally got something to contribute. I call this lil' guy "CANCER". (Custom Acrylic Nintendo Controll... er).
As the name would suggest, the casing and buttons are entirely plexiglass. Went for a knob in place of the d-pad, which I've actually come to prefer. It's a little bit thicker than the original NES controller, but it feels a lot better in my hands. More natural. ...Plus there's a back-lit logo, yadda yadda blah blah. Have some more pictures.
As the name would suggest, the casing and buttons are entirely plexiglass. Went for a knob in place of the d-pad, which I've actually come to prefer. It's a little bit thicker than the original NES controller, but it feels a lot better in my hands. More natural. ...Plus there's a back-lit logo, yadda yadda blah blah. Have some more pictures.
- Life of Brian
- Moderator
- Posts:2867
- Joined:Wed Aug 03, 2005 5:55 pm
- Location:Oklahoma
- Contact:
Life of Brian wrote:Badass! Is it a joystick you replaced the d-pad with?
Where did you get red acrylic from?
Yup! Replaced the d-pad with a 4-direction tac switch and affixed a little acrylic dome on top. (Same with the other buttons). As for the red acrylic... my roommate brought it home from school or something. I guess that had some laying around. However, you can get acrylic in all sorts of different colors, transparent and opaque, from TAP Plastics for example. In fact, I'm going to be building a case for another project pretty soon using transparent bronze acrylic. It looks pretty neat!
- schmellyfart
- Portablizer Extraordinaire
- Posts:1151
- Joined:Sun Mar 05, 2006 8:29 pm
- Steam ID:schmellyfart
- Location:Gilbert, AZ
- Contact:
They're referred to as "multi-control" switches. You can get them at mouser.com, part number 688-SKQUAA or 688-SKQUCA for example. (I think the only difference between those two is the length of the little stick). Oh, and they also have a center-push button function.schmellyfart wrote:Where did you get the 4 direction tact switch from? Those could come in handy for small portables.
ALPS makes a ton of different types of multi-control switches. (Some of them 8-direction as well). Those two I listed I think are just the more basic ones. Relatively cheap too.
-
- Posts:196
- Joined:Tue Nov 20, 2007 4:14 pm
-
- Posts:196
- Joined:Tue Nov 20, 2007 4:14 pm
well i said acidmods
heres the link http://www.acidmods.com/forum/index.php?topic=13476.0
but the pics are broken so it might be a bit hard to understand basically yuou just have to dremel the insides of the green things so thast the solid lines is severed if i must i could try to put up pics of mine late havent tested it yet though.
heres the link http://www.acidmods.com/forum/index.php?topic=13476.0
but the pics are broken so it might be a bit hard to understand basically yuou just have to dremel the insides of the green things so thast the solid lines is severed if i must i could try to put up pics of mine late havent tested it yet though.
- lifeisbetterwithketchup
- Senior Member
- Posts:2180
- Joined:Fri Jul 21, 2006 12:08 pm
- Steam ID:lifeisbetterwithketchup
- Location:Illinois. Whee.
- Contact:
- Life of Brian
- Moderator
- Posts:2867
- Joined:Wed Aug 03, 2005 5:55 pm
- Location:Oklahoma
- Contact:
Thanks for the tip on the multi-control switches! I hate cutting the hole for a d-pad. I can never get it just right! That's why I usually wind up bondo-ing in the original controller. However, one of those suckers would be perfect for a very compact portable... Hmm...
dragonhead wrote:sweet. ive spent a third of my life on benheck!
- Turbo Tax 1.0
- Portablizer Extraordinaire
- Posts:4773
- Joined:Wed Mar 30, 2005 6:19 pm
- Location:Delaware, no sales tax
- Contact:
- Custom NES Dude
- Posts:179
- Joined:Sat Feb 16, 2008 11:01 pm
- Location:Georgia