just wondering for the test batch r u going to have a cfw preloaded on them?
The actual CFW goes on your MicroSD card if you're using one, so I'll assume you mean a payload. I'd like to include one, but I need to check up on the ones currently available to see if I'd be allowed to include one and what accreditations I'd need to provide. I definitely won't be including the SX OS payload though as that's someone else's commercial product, but it's easy to install it on your own.
do you happen to still have it? I've resurrected a few 3d printers before and would love to take a crack at an SLA.
I don't, unfortunately. I'm fairly handy myself and would have loved to get it back up and running, but it took a tumble down a set of concrete stairs. Every conceivable piece of metal was bent, the acrylic cover was in shambles, both laser galvos broke and the screen cracked. By now it's probably part of a few hundred soda cans
Oh yeah also interested in purchasing a bare board and making my own case
Of course! Bare boards will be available with the seoncd batch, I'll probably put up 30 of them alongside the 100 full packages. I won't be able to offer cases separately until I get my own SLA printers, though.
Glad to hear you got the price down again. I'm kinda tempted to try building one of these myself in the future (i have too many things on the todo list right now). This is a great project and very well designed. I like it.
Thanks! I spent a lot of time on the mundane things like prettying up the traces and making all the edges on the model line up and stuff so I'm glad it shows! If enough people want, I can even put together a kit with all the parts + board or just the parts or whatever people want. Just need to let me know!
This is excellent. I would perhaps buy this on day 1.
My only complaint about that are jig pins. They don't seem very Joy-Con slot friendly (could damage Joy-Con slot).
IMHO the pins should look like something like the pins on picture bellow. The black one is TX's jig.
I see where you're coming from, and it's certainly a valid concern, but I spent a great deal of time taking measurements and testing the jig to make sure it wouldn't damage the Switch. I've used it a good 50 times now on my own Switch and checked the pins under a microscope and haven't noticed any difference. The feel of sliding in my joycon is exactly the same as before as well. The grooves you see in my jig are actually divets and not ridges, and just give the pins somewhere to go while keeping them aligned properly. They do not stick up above where the flat areas of existing jigs go. The pins themselves are minuscule, even smaller than on the SX jig. They're just the leads from a 1/8w resistor and only stick up 0.2mm from the jig surface. I might be more concerned if other jigs were using spring pins or something to alleviate some pressure, but from what I can see, despite the "peak" shape of the wire bend, there is still no room for the pin to depress as it's sitting right against the case (like the red example you provided) or fixed in place (like the black TX jig).
I went with my design because SLA printing is very precise and I thought I might take advantage of that fact to make the alignment divets. With the design above, if you happen to have a chunk of dirt in your joycon rail or something else happens where it raises the jig up too much, the pins just fall into the divets. With the flat faces on the other jigs, the pins might become under pressure, and with nothing guiding them properly they might bend sideways. It's a very low risk (maybe not even that), but one I didn't want to take if I could avoid it.
That said, if it does somehow turn out to be a problem it's an easy one to fix. I'd like to hear a bit more about why you think it would damage the joycon rail if you have the time! The last thing I want it to damage anyone's Switch.
1st batch colors don't effect me. really don't care what it is. CHEAPER IS better but quality is always something to keep in mind.
GREY IS FINE
question does this come with a battery ? or do we need to pick one up. would like to know before getting it so i can have them on hand
Good to know! It's hard to see in the pictures but the grey actually looks really nice. It's quite dark with a slight blue tint.
Also, there's no battery needed - the device runs off of a supercapacitor that charges from the Type C port or from your cartridge slot. I designed it to pull less power from the card slot than a standard game cart. It should outlive the battery in your Switch by a country mile.
Oh man thats a wondeful project please dont forget me in the next batch!!!
Thanks! I'll be posting here as soon as the next batch is ready!
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