3d printed custom arcade stick i made to use at the local bi weekly guilty gear strive and street fighter 6 brackets.
For the last 10 or 12 years I’ve been using a Madcatz Fightstick pro xbox 360 arcade stick but I got tired of using adapters to play on ps4/ps5 because they were causing issues with missed inputs and added latency so I built this controller with an open source board that supports usb passthrough authentication so the console gets inputs directly from the controller.
It uses a 16x6 inch aluminum plate for the top and bottom panels and a gp-2040ce for the pcb(with a magicboots adapter for ps5 support), the lever is a crown newhelpme lever and the buttons are 6 Seimitsu snap in buttons and 2 Punkworkshop buttons.
I ran into a skill issue using heat set inserts so i just made everything either screw into plastic or use captive nuts for the more secure bits.
list of tools and stuff used.
- software: Freecad and orca slicer
- 3d printer: Elegoo Neptune 4 pro(this thing sucks)
- 30mm hole cut saw drill bit.
- random assortment of drill bits for the mounting holes.
- 1x m8 threaded rod to connect the wrist rest halves
- 4x m8 bolts
- 8x m6 bolts
- 4x m4 bolts for the lever mount
cRazi_man@europe.pub 5 hours ago
That’s really cool. There is a fightstick community on Lemmy, but it’s completely dead. Lemmy is too small for such niche interests.
I’m more of a hitbox guy myself. I don’t have a 3D printer, but can do some stuff with wood. It has been really fun making custom layouts.
Controllers like this should added in it sly be DIY’d. The pre-made cases are hideously overpriced for being just a box.
shelf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 hours ago
yeah I didn’t know /c/arcadesticks@lemmy.world existed until somebody cross posted this post there. I want to remake the wrist rest out of wood eventually to add more weight. Your hitbox looks pretty sick!
wjrii@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
I’ve used adhesive steel wheel-balancing weights on a couple of my modded keyboards. They’re cheap, low-profile, and have to be lead-free. If you have room on your bottom plate, just slap a bunch on there. You can put down masking tape first if you want to avoid damaging the plate if you decide to remove them.
cRazi_man@europe.pub 3 hours ago
A trick for adding weight to a DIY keyboard is to glue down a whole bunch of pennies inside. You probably need more weight in a fight stick. Just need to add something heavy inside. Wood might not add as much weight as you want.