General / Off-Topic 3d printing video game consoles?

justhanging

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Okay I've heard of this 3d printing stuff a while back but I had no clue that you can now make your own video game parts?

https://pinshape.com/items/16014-3d-printed-ag-thumbstick-extender-for-ps4

My question is if we can 'print' parts then how far away are we from actually making our own console! Then I don't have to waste time buying stuff (I already lost my receipt for most of my games). I know dentists use 3d technology to make braces and even dental implants.

Plus how complex is the software?, I'm a professional coder and have designed several workforce management apps but this seems complicated.

Even featured on Wikipedia. Along with another invoice maker used by most 3d printing companies.

Imagine making a hybrid of Xbox / PS and WII (Some games are fun on WII come on you guys!). As long as the music and acoustics in these games make sense, it should be good.

Has anyone ever tried making their own video game parts or have experience using this technology?
 
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BillD

BillD
Asp Explorer said:
True - but in the good old days I remember printing circuit layouts on a laser printer, and ironing them on to copper-clad board before etching and drilling.
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Hehe I still do that to this day. Its one of the cheapest ways to get high detail circuit boards.

To the OP, I have been building and using 3d printers for many years and use 3D printers and the technology is advancing rapidly, but affordable ways of "printing" high density circuit boards is still pretty expensive. There are better more dedicated methods for that.
But as far as printing using inexpensive printers, we now have so many choices of materials and it is growing weekly. We have conductive filament, so we can embed conductive tracks within 3 dimensional objects, but it has relatively high resistance compared to a pure copper track so it not very practical for much more than the most basic things.

Still the list of exotic materials is growing constantly. We have filaments with metals that can be polished and tarnished, wood filaments, carbon fibre impregnated filaments, conductive, water soluble, edible, flexible, etc. My favourite one is a ceramic based one, that after printing can be kiln fired and glazed just like clay. It ends up as hard and durable as kiln fired clay ceramics and can then handle temperatures of a 1000 degrees+
Can't wait to see what pops up next week. :)
 
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