Hi! Previously I made a game controller with a keyboard style. You can check this blogpost of the previous progress.
This time I revised and refurbished the design a little bit more. Here is the last look of the Keycon before this update:
First of all, I changed the assembly system to mount the case with screws to make it fully accessible for maintenance.
I nearly reached to the boundary of the build plate of my 3d printer which is Creality Ender 3 - V2.
And then, I added a led switch to turn the LEDs on and off.
After seing that the screw mounting works, I changed the front design to make it look more like a gaming keyboard.
And 3d printed it as well:
I covered the surface with two sided tapes to fix the cover art I made in Substance Designer.
I have used PBR render node to pre-render my Electronics / PCB Substance Material, to get a 3d shaded visual to put behind the glass design on the design.
I put the images into Rhinoceros to scale and crop the design as the exact shape of the top surface outline I have extracted from my CAD model.
I printed and laminated the print and then I fixed it over the top surface of the new case.
Before that I bought brown rubber keycaps to make a better looking final look on the design. These keycaps with rubber grips are amazing for playing fighting games with keyboard! Here is an amazon link for them:
https://www.amazon.com/Ranked-Rubber-Translucent-Mechanical-Keyboard/dp/B09WPM4MD3?th=1
I put the cover design, keycaps and also the "hole caps" There were 4 holes for letting the screw driver in for fixing the controller circuit to the case. I closed those holes with rivet looking caps.
By the way, I tried to made a 90 degrees USB cable. I soldered it first and drew a rough outline:
I made another controller too!
So that's it, I really liked the result and happy that the controller is really useful on playing especially fighting games. I hope you like it, and see you on the next creation :)