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Adding a hinge to a Game Boy that God never intended

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Re: Adding a hinge to a Game Boy that God never intended

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Post by drewzero1 »

jansan wrote: post #8

Just to confirm that I understand this correctly, that clear case is really 3D printed? I don't follow 3D printing too closely, but I did not think that something like this would be possible.

I've just been getting started with FDM printing since this summer, and after getting to know the limitations of my printer I'm even more amazed at the smoothness and resolution that some resin printers are getting. (I've even heard of people starting to print optical lenses[0], which I can hardly imagine.) You can really see the difference in resolution in the image with the different bottom shell!

0: https://www.cuddleburrito.com/blog/2015/10/13/3d-printing-vi...

Re: Adding a hinge to a Game Boy that God never intended

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Post by lapetitejort »

deergomoo wrote: post #3

I absolutely adore the Game Boy modding scene that’s exploded in the last few years. Case overhauls like this or the Boxypixel slab pictured in the article, numerous backlit high-res IPS screen replacements, mods to improve sound, Li-ion battery packs with USB charging. And that’s to say nothing of Analogue or the MiSTer project, creating full FPGA reimplementations of the hardware. It’s a really cool example of what…

Retro Future on YouTube has made some similarly cursed builds, such as the original GBA but with a hinged screen for some reason, and double screen GBA SP (it shows the same image on two screens).

Re: Adding a hinge to a Game Boy that God never intended

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Post by echeese »

1MachineElf wrote: post #11
jansan wrote: post #8

Just to confirm that I understand this correctly, that clear case is really 3D printed? I don't follow 3D printing too closely, but I did not think that something like this would be possible.

I did not think so either, although, SLA is the one method I'd guess, if I had to, just going by the main picture. SLA is indeed the process they used, but what really surprised me was that it's offered as a 3D printing service from JLPCB and PCBWay.

I don't get how they got it so clear and without support marks.

Re: Adding a hinge to a Game Boy that God never intended

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Post by BoorishBears »

javawizard wrote: post #20
1MachineElf wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I did not think so either, although, SLA is the one method I'd guess, if I had to, just going by the main picture. SLA is indeed the process they used, but what really surprised me was that it's offered as a 3D printing service from JLPCB and PCBWay.

Yeah this is definitely an SLA print. SLA is capable of amazing quality with respect to both dimensional tolerances and overall appearance of finished product. I've been on the fence about getting one. This post might be the thing that pushes me over the edge. HN readers: what SLA printers do you recommend?

I have an SLA printer (Prusa SL1) and rarely use it

Unless you get an industrial printer, dimensional accuracy gets messy with SLA. Slicers can try and compensate, but you end up having to work around warping

For organic shapes like figures I'm sure it's great, but as someone who prints functional items 99% of the time I'd rather tune an FDM printer than fight with my messy SLA machine

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sho_hn wrote: post #13

> Another thing I learned about myself: I kinda like being old. I recently turned 41 and sure, my back hurts all the time and I’m going grey, but I have enough experience and domain knowledge at this point that picking up CAD and PCB design over the summer isn’t that big a deal. It feels nice to reap the rewards of all of my experience. Lovely quote.

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Re: Adding a hinge to a Game Boy that God never intended

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Post by adamweld »

jansan wrote: post #8

Just to confirm that I understand this correctly, that clear case is really 3D printed? I don't follow 3D printing too closely, but I did not think that something like this would be possible.

It's SLA resin printed by PCBWay.

https://www.pcbway.com/rapid-prototyping/3d-printing/plastic...

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Post by doublepg23 »

deergomoo wrote: post #3

I absolutely adore the Game Boy modding scene that’s exploded in the last few years. Case overhauls like this or the Boxypixel slab pictured in the article, numerous backlit high-res IPS screen replacements, mods to improve sound, Li-ion battery packs with USB charging. And that’s to say nothing of Analogue or the MiSTer project, creating full FPGA reimplementations of the hardware. It’s a really cool example of what…

Completely agree. It’s a really cool scene and inspired me to collect some old Gameboys.

Re: Adding a hinge to a Game Boy that God never intended

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Post by javawizard »

BoorishBears wrote: post #24
javawizard wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah this is definitely an SLA print. SLA is capable of amazing quality with respect to both dimensional tolerances and overall appearance of finished product. I've been on the fence about getting one. This post might be the thing that pushes me over the edge. HN readers: what SLA printers do you recommend?

I have an SLA printer (Prusa SL1) and rarely use it Unless you get an industrial printer, dimensional accuracy gets messy with SLA. Slicers can try and compensate, but you end up having to work around warping For organic shapes like figures I'm sure it's great, but as someone who prints functional items 99% of the time I'd rather tune an FDM printer than fight with my messy SLA machine

Good to know. How bad exactly would you say accuracy is? Are we talking about a few hundreds of micrometers or a millimeter or more?
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