[FINISHED] Tact-4 shoulder button bracket for GBZ
Posted: Tue Nov 14, 2017 6:20 pm
AFTER MONTHS OF EVERYTHING I HAVE FINISHED AND RELEASED MY 4 TACT SHOULDER BUTTON
THINGIVERSE LINK https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2941993
DROP BOX LINK WITH INCLUDED BLENDER FILE https://www.dropbox.com/s/iggy4bmwffj35 ... D.zip?dl=0
Simply put when I saw that the circuit sword was using the CM3, I knew I had to put in 4 shoulder buttons so that could possibly run Playstation games. At the time I looked around and did not see many brackets that made it easy to build, but I did see a few people drilling basic holes and gluing tact switches, and it looking a bit messy. So I decided to give it a shot, I also used this as an excuse to brush up on my blender skills since I was planing on getting a 3d printer. This is what I came up with.
Basicly this how it works. You will see 3 sets of files: squares, circles, and blanks. Circles are for drill guides, squares are for mounting the tact switches, and blanks are for customization if you want to mount something else there.
Since I did not take any pictures of me assembling my GBZ-CS, I have to illustrate with blender a bit.
---Print off the square and circle pieces.
---Place the circle pieces into the back shell of the gameboy case, Use a fine tip sharpie to mark the holes, and use a drill bit to drill out the holes. Go slow with the drill. It is recommended to use a step bit and razer blade afterward to smooth things out.
PIC HERE:
---Remove the circle pieces
---add some hot glue and add the square pieces.
---Wire up your tact swiches, test wiring.
---Place them in, make the buttons have free movement and use the hot glue.
---Let everything cool and make sure everything is secure and working
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HERE IS THE TACT SWITCHES I USED
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0177 ... UTF8&psc=1
A few notes and thank yous:
This bracket is compatible with hoolyhoo's Glueless CS power bracket. https://www.sudomod.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=58&t=5321
I haven't given much thought about selling this thing. I did have some significant help from yaya (special thanks), so in a way not all of the model is completely mine.
Within the blender files is neolith's back shell case. Big thank you to him https://www.sudomod.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=43&t=3729
I completely abused the "boolean" modifier function in blender.
I am completely without any cad or engineering training. I had barely any idea of what I was doing, I just know that someone will find problems with this design.
I am not setup for donations or payments. If want to contribute something just pm me. Also If you want to improve or remix, go ahead, just let me know.
Thank you to everyone who helped and posted in this thread.
-------- BELOW IS THE ORIGINAL POST-------
I will say this up front. I haven't done blender in a long time, so I am working off the rust.
I working an idea for my own gameboy zero and i figured that I would start by making a basic shoulder button bracket. Since Kite's Circuit sword is running a Raspi CM3, I decided that I need all four shoulder buttons for possible play station emulation. I did some looking around and decided to do something simular to what dryja123 showed me on the discord server, and that was to use tact switches. PIC HERE. However he showed me that its mounted using glue so I decided to get on blender and try some modeling. I first grabbed neolith's full case cad files LINK and started messing round with blender.
This is what I came up with.
DOWNLOAD LINK
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ecph68i9hzyo3 ... 1.zip?dl=0
Basically its a starting point for possible brackets in those two areas. I figured to release the files at this state so that if somebody wants to put something else in that spot they can. Also I am bound to make some mistakes so I know somebody will have a fix.
I plan on doing some holes/slots for tact switches.
A few things I have to note. I do not have a 3dprinter to test this with (yet), nor do I have a gameboy case (yet), nor do I have any real blender/engineering skills (yet). So its likely something is not going to work.
If you make any changes please repost them in this thread.
THINGIVERSE LINK https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2941993
DROP BOX LINK WITH INCLUDED BLENDER FILE https://www.dropbox.com/s/iggy4bmwffj35 ... D.zip?dl=0
Simply put when I saw that the circuit sword was using the CM3, I knew I had to put in 4 shoulder buttons so that could possibly run Playstation games. At the time I looked around and did not see many brackets that made it easy to build, but I did see a few people drilling basic holes and gluing tact switches, and it looking a bit messy. So I decided to give it a shot, I also used this as an excuse to brush up on my blender skills since I was planing on getting a 3d printer. This is what I came up with.
Basicly this how it works. You will see 3 sets of files: squares, circles, and blanks. Circles are for drill guides, squares are for mounting the tact switches, and blanks are for customization if you want to mount something else there.
Since I did not take any pictures of me assembling my GBZ-CS, I have to illustrate with blender a bit.
---Print off the square and circle pieces.
---Place the circle pieces into the back shell of the gameboy case, Use a fine tip sharpie to mark the holes, and use a drill bit to drill out the holes. Go slow with the drill. It is recommended to use a step bit and razer blade afterward to smooth things out.
PIC HERE:
---Remove the circle pieces
---add some hot glue and add the square pieces.
---Wire up your tact swiches, test wiring.
---Place them in, make the buttons have free movement and use the hot glue.
---Let everything cool and make sure everything is secure and working
----------------
HERE IS THE TACT SWITCHES I USED
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0177 ... UTF8&psc=1
A few notes and thank yous:
This bracket is compatible with hoolyhoo's Glueless CS power bracket. https://www.sudomod.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=58&t=5321
I haven't given much thought about selling this thing. I did have some significant help from yaya (special thanks), so in a way not all of the model is completely mine.
Within the blender files is neolith's back shell case. Big thank you to him https://www.sudomod.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=43&t=3729
I completely abused the "boolean" modifier function in blender.
I am completely without any cad or engineering training. I had barely any idea of what I was doing, I just know that someone will find problems with this design.
I am not setup for donations or payments. If want to contribute something just pm me. Also If you want to improve or remix, go ahead, just let me know.
Thank you to everyone who helped and posted in this thread.
-------- BELOW IS THE ORIGINAL POST-------
I will say this up front. I haven't done blender in a long time, so I am working off the rust.
I working an idea for my own gameboy zero and i figured that I would start by making a basic shoulder button bracket. Since Kite's Circuit sword is running a Raspi CM3, I decided that I need all four shoulder buttons for possible play station emulation. I did some looking around and decided to do something simular to what dryja123 showed me on the discord server, and that was to use tact switches. PIC HERE. However he showed me that its mounted using glue so I decided to get on blender and try some modeling. I first grabbed neolith's full case cad files LINK and started messing round with blender.
This is what I came up with.
DOWNLOAD LINK
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ecph68i9hzyo3 ... 1.zip?dl=0
Basically its a starting point for possible brackets in those two areas. I figured to release the files at this state so that if somebody wants to put something else in that spot they can. Also I am bound to make some mistakes so I know somebody will have a fix.
I plan on doing some holes/slots for tact switches.
A few things I have to note. I do not have a 3dprinter to test this with (yet), nor do I have a gameboy case (yet), nor do I have any real blender/engineering skills (yet). So its likely something is not going to work.
If you make any changes please repost them in this thread.