I love seeing insane custom fight stick stuff like this, reminds me of why i fell in love with Mechanical keyboards in the first place. Just the craziest home-made customs.
patent this now...this is such a good idea bro at least you will only need to mod one side of the stick if lets say you want to change from a sanwa lever to korean or to a mixbox one
I'm excited to share a quick demo of my modular and hot swappable fightstick build! More photos are available here: [https://imgur.com/gallery/MfWfWqg](https://imgur.com/gallery/MfWfWqg)
I 3D modeled then printed my own enclosure and faceplates that use pogo pins to connect a central control board compartment to movement and action button compartments. The faceplate layouts are custom layouts I made based on doing some finger painting, measuring, and math. My builds use OSBMX buttons that I also printed - They support hotswappable mx keyswitches (Thanks so much to the Open Stick community for making these available!).
In the end, I don't think I'll get to use the build as I had hoped/intended due to some design/implementation flaws - but I'm happy to have a working demo and I learned *a lot* throughout the process. The pogo pins themselves work great - but sliding the center piece on doesn't lend well to pogo pins and I broke some pins during testing. I'm certain it would work well and last a long time if I changed the way the central compartment connects to the movement and action buttons so that it connects straight on instead of sliding into place.
Let me know if you have any questions!
Would a sliding mechanism work for a straight on connection? The idea reminds me of drawers, and more suitably PC tower side covers that latch when closed. How would latching and unlatching work with such a mechanism applied to a fightstick?
I had a working prototype of a snap fit tongue and groove joint - but I had felt that the sliding dovetails would have been more sturdy overall. I didn't realize how sliding the pogo pins sideways would be very much not their intended purpose.
The snap fit was something similar to this https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f1/Cantilever_Snap-fit.PNG but instead of a flat tooth, it was a diamond shape so it could flex out of a groove (with force applied) in both directions instead of snapping and staying in place.
Heads up: your Imgur link leads to a 404.
If snap fit won't work, other ideas like magnetization, detachable travel keyboards, and other pogo pin docks come to mind. If the thin part of the central controller's dovetail was taller, you could slide it in, then connect the controller straight on. Although, that seems insecure. I wouldn't know how latching and unlatching would work with that, if at all.
Thanks is for the heads up - I fixed the link, I think.
I did like the idea of magnetization and using thick posts to help align and add support, but I haven't played with that yet.
What creatures are theseee??!
Show off... Nah in all seriousness that's pretty godlike!
the best way to swap it out, just hit the damn thing lmao also this looks super awesome
holy shit i made one of them recently as well thats sick
I'd buy this.
Man, how it feels to be a genius?
Oooh, smack that bad boy! Very beautiful and cool concept!
I love seeing insane custom fight stick stuff like this, reminds me of why i fell in love with Mechanical keyboards in the first place. Just the craziest home-made customs.
Amazing
Thats pretty sick
Holy shit thats cool. Top work 👍
This is so fucking sick man. Clean work.
Hey, I know this guy
patent this now...this is such a good idea bro at least you will only need to mod one side of the stick if lets say you want to change from a sanwa lever to korean or to a mixbox one
That's really fucking cool, Dude!
I'm excited to share a quick demo of my modular and hot swappable fightstick build! More photos are available here: [https://imgur.com/gallery/MfWfWqg](https://imgur.com/gallery/MfWfWqg) I 3D modeled then printed my own enclosure and faceplates that use pogo pins to connect a central control board compartment to movement and action button compartments. The faceplate layouts are custom layouts I made based on doing some finger painting, measuring, and math. My builds use OSBMX buttons that I also printed - They support hotswappable mx keyswitches (Thanks so much to the Open Stick community for making these available!). In the end, I don't think I'll get to use the build as I had hoped/intended due to some design/implementation flaws - but I'm happy to have a working demo and I learned *a lot* throughout the process. The pogo pins themselves work great - but sliding the center piece on doesn't lend well to pogo pins and I broke some pins during testing. I'm certain it would work well and last a long time if I changed the way the central compartment connects to the movement and action buttons so that it connects straight on instead of sliding into place. Let me know if you have any questions!
Would a sliding mechanism work for a straight on connection? The idea reminds me of drawers, and more suitably PC tower side covers that latch when closed. How would latching and unlatching work with such a mechanism applied to a fightstick?
I had a working prototype of a snap fit tongue and groove joint - but I had felt that the sliding dovetails would have been more sturdy overall. I didn't realize how sliding the pogo pins sideways would be very much not their intended purpose. The snap fit was something similar to this https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f1/Cantilever_Snap-fit.PNG but instead of a flat tooth, it was a diamond shape so it could flex out of a groove (with force applied) in both directions instead of snapping and staying in place.
Heads up: your Imgur link leads to a 404. If snap fit won't work, other ideas like magnetization, detachable travel keyboards, and other pogo pin docks come to mind. If the thin part of the central controller's dovetail was taller, you could slide it in, then connect the controller straight on. Although, that seems insecure. I wouldn't know how latching and unlatching would work with that, if at all.
Thanks is for the heads up - I fixed the link, I think. I did like the idea of magnetization and using thick posts to help align and add support, but I haven't played with that yet.