Anyway, I've got two escapes from this: music, and something I cooked up in Inventor last week. The Drafting room got a 3d printer, and I made a little something for it. I plan to print it out and possibly paint it later. Check it out:
Oh, so oldschool. The dimensions aren't exact, simply because I don't have an NES anymore (which really sucks) and I can't find the dimensions anywhere on the internet. It's not entirely done, I still have to put the little "holes" in the control pad and buttons, but it's going to be awesome when it's done. I may post a pic of the real thing when I'm done.
Edit:
One Drafting block later...
3 comments:
They got a 3D printer? Nice. Man, why couldn't they have gotten that while I wass still there? How long does it take to print? What kind of materials can it do? How does it work?
By the way, after looking at my NES controller, I think the control pad needs to be a bit farther from the start & select buttons, which should be a bit father from the A & B buttons, which mean the whole body should be wider. And maybe the body could be vertically "squished" as well. Oh yeah, and the A & B buttons and control pad are a bit too deep. They look like you could cut your fingers on them.
Oh yeah, I think you should either print it really small or really big (as if that thing would fit in the printer...).
It only does one material, some sort of clay-type thing. What it does is it prints it from the bottom up, layer by layer, until it reaches the top. My controller is on the printer now (I hope) and printing it and a few other small things takes about 4-5 hours. Now, if only the router wouldn't keep quitting (it's on a network so it can be wired with all the other cool stuff) we could finish it. It also isn't a good idea to try and run an uber-awesome printer off a Dell. The plan seems to be to custom-build a maching for all the cool stuff. It worked yesterday...
I'd make changes, but when you commented, I had already made a texture for the top of the controller (In MS Paint, for that matter). Inventor doesn't do texturing, but the software that comes with the printer does. It's hard to make changes now. Oh well, I'm not going for precision.
My next project is a SNES controller if this goes well.
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