Nerd gift - cheap / fun - DIY Arcade Controller A DIY…
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Nerd gift - cheap / fun - DIY Arcade Controller
A DIY arcade kit is around $15 on aliexpress ($25 on amazon if you can't wait 10 days.)
All you need to make the button kit into a real controller is a big enough box. Any box will work, it just has to be around 40mm deep. If it's not quite wide enough I would toss 2 or 4 of the buttons. Very few good games use all 8 buttons. You could also mount 2 buttons on the sides of the box like pinball machine buttons to use this as a virtual pinball controller https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BK-qUmEvtvk .
If you go to a smoke / cigar stores they have pretty nice boxes that are about the right size. Here's a cigar box controller I made https://imgur.com/gallery/cigarcade-kxVqBtG . Frequently they are free. I've also seen people use extra thick card board boxes or trashed kids lunchboxes.
The box I am showing was designed by me and printed on a 3d printer. If you have access to a 3d printer and want to use my design you can get it free here: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:7334876 The 3d model and text were created by me. The pinups were ai generated.
Getting the holes just right is probably the hardest part. You can download and print out a template from slagcoin: https://slagcoin.com/joystick/layout.html
What do you play it on while staying frugal AF? The encoder board for this claims to work on ps3, windows, switch, and raspberry pi.
Surprisingly this controller also works with android. Any old POS android tv box https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jy-HlXPEIsI or cracked phone that supports display over usb-c will make for a pretty powerful emulation device https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXFaJtZz6Uw . Most Samsung phones will do quite well. You'll need a dock (around $10) to connect the controller to the phone and a TV.
I haven't tested it but I suspect it would work with an amazon firestick as well which can also be turned into a game machine pretty easily https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1H3dTVuNvzs .
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A DIY arcade kit is around $15 on aliexpress ($25 on amazon if you can't wait 10 days.)
All you need to make the button kit into a real controller is a big enough box. Any box will work, it just has to be around 40mm deep. If it's not quite wide enough I would toss 2 or 4 of the buttons. Very few good games use all 8 buttons. You could also mount 2 buttons on the sides of the box like pinball machine buttons to use this as a virtual pinball controller https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BK-qUmEvtvk .
If you go to a smoke / cigar stores they have pretty nice boxes that are about the right size. Here's a cigar box controller I made https://imgur.com/gallery/cigarcade-kxVqBtG . Frequently they are free. I've also seen people use extra thick card board boxes or trashed kids lunchboxes.
The box I am showing was designed by me and printed on a 3d printer. If you have access to a 3d printer and want to use my design you can get it free here: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:7334876 The 3d model and text were created by me. The pinups were ai generated.
Getting the holes just right is probably the hardest part. You can download and print out a template from slagcoin: https://slagcoin.com/joystick/layout.html
What do you play it on while staying frugal AF? The encoder board for this claims to work on ps3, windows, switch, and raspberry pi.
Surprisingly this controller also works with android. Any old POS android tv box https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jy-HlXPEIsI or cracked phone that supports display over usb-c will make for a pretty powerful emulation device https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXFaJtZz6Uw . Most Samsung phones will do quite well. You'll need a dock (around $10) to connect the controller to the phone and a TV.
I haven't tested it but I suspect it would work with an amazon firestick as well which can also be turned into a game machine pretty easily https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1H3dTVuNvzs .
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