Description
My favourite game is Super Smash Bros. Melee released in 2001 by Nintendo. It’s a platform fighter and is played on the Nintendo GameCube.
The controllers aren’t that ergonomic though, & I’ve developed hand pain over the years. Other people have reported hand pain too & after some time they have built alternative game controllers to combat that problem. The b0xx is the first controller & one of the most famous examples.
Living in Germany, it’s kind of difficult & expensive to ship such a controller from the United States & as an additional problem they were sold out for the unforeseeable future, accompanied with a waiting list.
Therefore I started my 3d printing journey and bought an Ender-3 & some filament. I then designed my own version based on the Fake1, a self made version of the Frame1.
I redesigned the form factor, as I wanted to easily throw it into my backpack, but didn’t want to sacrifice ergonomics. It was designed in Houdini & set up in a procedural matter, to quickly iterate on layouts.
When finished, I called it Fake1s & posted it on Crane’s Lab Discord - a community dedicated to controller mods and self made input devices.
Showcase
If you want to check out the print on thingiverse (where you can orbit around the 3d models), click here: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5161407. Otherwise check out some photos!
Here you can see the final look & the button layout. It’s a compact form factor & allows easy portability with good ergonomics.
This is the wiring part - not the most beautiful, but it does the job neatly! The Arduino firmware can be found here!
