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Here are some of my home made board games. I say home made, but actually, it’s more like “home ordered”, as the components are ordered from aliexpress.com in China. It takes minimal effort to get yourself a nice tactile board game, to your own specifications, and of way higher quality and durability than a Print and Play paper and card version. In fact most of the work in my board game projects…
Finally finished - my DIY Midi Fighter project! The Midi Fighter is a MIDI controller originally designed, and still sold by a company called DJ Techtools. It’s meant to be used with music software for playing instruments like drums, or triggering one-off samples. Mine’s a DIY version that’s lacking some of the features of the current version of the product but is relatively true to the original.…
I got back into Origami again, recently - something that seems to happen roughly once every five years, if the dates on this site are anything to go by: Folded from 25cm x 25cm single sided Aitoh Foil Paper. The model was designed by Mi Wu and the instructions are printed in his book Duo-Color Origami You can also find the diagrams linked to this article. I’ve folded a few more of the models from…
This was a quick project I put together this weekend. I’m not entirely sure why I made it, and I have no idea what it is for! However, it was very satisfying to design and print a neat little case to precisely fit the button and the controller. The keyboard appears to Windows as a standard PC keyboard, the only difference being that there is only one key. I programmed it to type “:facepalm:” so…
This is my latest project, The Chopbox Junior This project is another evolution of my Tesco Chop Box. This time getting smaller. It is (almost - see below) the exact same software, hardware and case design, but using a half-sized board. If you want more info on how the electronics work, and how the case is designed, there is a much better guide in that article. I was inspired to make this project…
Once I came up with the name, I had to make this! This project is the somewhat obvious evolution of my Tesco Chop Box. It is the exact same software, hardware and case design, but using a stick and 30mm buttons, instead of the Chop Box’s 24mm buttons. If you want more info on how the electronics work, and how the case is designed, there is a much better guide in that article. I already had a 3D…
This is my homemade external Function Keys Keypad. This project is very similar to my previous DIY Portable Mixbox. This time, however, the keys act like the Function Keys on a regular keyboard. It plugs into a USB port and functions as a second keyboard. Windows is perfectly happy with you having more than one keyboard plugged in at a time. I made it to use with my Microsoft Sculpt Keyboard,…
This is version 2 of my DIY portable Mixbox This is a followup to my previous post on the DIY Portable Mixbox. This one was designed to meet similar criteria to the original, but to also provide the missing two action buttons. This makes playing some fighting games a bit easier as it means I can dedicate a button to moves that would otherwise require two buttons to be pressed at once. For example,…
Following on from last month’s DIY Mixbox project, here is the full size version, The Tesco Chop Box. The Tesco Chop Box is my budget version of the Hit Box controller. This is another controller designed for playing fighting games such as Street Fighter or Mortal Kombat. Like the Mixbox, it is designed to make it easier for players to make the precise directional and button inputs necessary for…
This is my DIY portable version of a Mixbox UPDATE: Files are now available here on Thingiverse The Mixbox is a controller designed for playing fighting games such as Street Fighter or Mortal Kombat. It is intended to combine the precision of using a keyboard with the ease of use of a fight stick. Since fighting games tend to rely on players being able to accurately move the joystick, in…