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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 johnwalkr »

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?

We had a form labs printer at work and while the resolution was great, it was very messy to deal with, parts were brittle, curing took a long time, support structure was annoying to remove (and very time consuming to remove traces of), and over weeks or months most parts with any significant feature longer in one dimension warped. I don’t think anyone used it once as soon as we got an FDM printer.

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

#32

Post by qbasic_forever »

jollyllama wrote: post #2

>Purely in terms of industrial design, I don’t think a Nintendo handheld has matched the elegance of the SP. 100%. Awesome post.

The SP was pretty painful to hold and use for long times in my experience. The shoulder buttons were particularly hard to hit comfortably. The original GBA horizontal design is my favorite and most comfortable. Swap it to a nice backlit LCD or even OLED and it would be perfect.

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

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Post by hancholo »

BoorishBears wrote: post #4

I lived down the block from that NYU makerspace and walked my dog past it every day. I'm also a self-taught dev who's wanted to go back to college and get a degree for posterity. So naturally applying to NYU made sense, get started on the education stuff I was putting off, get access to a really cool makerspace, etc. I talked to someone from admissions at the school, learned more about the process, but then we got to…

If I may ask... what specialization are you in? and is it the same thing you started off in? I've been thinking of pivoting and have narrowed it down to 1-3 niches, but also don't have a degree but currently working in a FAANG company.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

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?

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

#37

Post by Felger »

I'm always amazed and impressed by the amount of effort and energy needed for those ultimately "useless" (said not in a sarcastic way) personnal projects... I personnaly absolutely can't muster so much efforts for almost anything. And sooo would love to be able to...

Documenting being a major drag.

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

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Post by javawizard »

johnwalkr wrote: post #31
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?

We had a form labs printer at work and while the resolution was great, it was very messy to deal with, parts were brittle, curing took a long time, support structure was annoying to remove (and very time consuming to remove traces of), and over weeks or months most parts with any significant feature longer in one dimension warped. I don’t think anyone used it once as soon as we got an FDM printer.

> and over weeks or months most parts with any significant feature longer in one dimension warped

That's alarming. How bad are we talking about, like millimeters or fractions thereof?

I really, really like the appearance of the case from TFA and would love to build similar enclosures for my projects, but if that comes at the expense of noticeable long term dimensional instability, no thanks.

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

#40

Post by kibwen »

vlunkr wrote: post #38

This is awesome. I miss hinges. The Switch is great, but I loved being able to throw my sp or ds into a bag or pocket without worrying about scratching it.

Now that folding-screen smartphones are a thing that actually exist on the market, it's not entirely impossible to imagine that the next Switch could be foldable like the SP. :P
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