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My suggestion was going to be The Duke.
With 3d printing being what it is we should be able to measure our hands and have a micro-factory just print a comfortable, ergonomic shell.
I do have an alternate suggestion - I got some very textured grip tape and applied it to every surface that I touch on my mouse and xbone controller. It gives me a lot more positive grip and control, I don't feel like I have to squeeze or anytthing to hold on to it, it's not slipping anywhere.
I had been considering trying to 3d print a shell for an existing controller, as the cad files for the steam controller have been publicly released so I could get the right grip shape from that, but I dont know how to use cad software so designing something like that was way out of my league.
Do you know any engineers? They might be able to give you some advice. I'm afraid I don't know much about it myself. I know guys with printers but I've never worked with any of the software.
man I dont know anybody. do got a little 3d printer my parents bought for me and my brother as a Christmas present like 8 years ago though, but I never got it to work right. I figured if i had a design I would just have some 3d printing service do a high quality resin print, I think PCBway does that. cant print what hasn't been designed though.
You know, could you take a controller you've already got and use sketchup or something simple to create add-on pieces that would bulk it out? Like pieces that you could tape or glue to your existing controller?
I dont know how I would measure the curved contour of the controller
In blender you can load reference pictures in to the scene to help with shapes. Alternately, calipers. Lots of calipers! And then print out very very low res test models.
Or, if you could get a good model of the controller, you could work from taht.
Thius is a problem I've been thinking abut a lot. One of the tings I want to work on this year is taking a decent quality gaming mouse and re-rigging it in to an upright ergo mouse. There aren't really any good upright gaming mice, so I've been planning to rough sculpt the shell using air drying clay or something, then work out how to load that in to a 3d modelling problem.
Come to think of it, do you have a recent iphone or no someone who does? Supposedly they have some kind of lidar bullshit that can work as a 3d scanner with some FOSS software.
ould tape or glue to your existing controller?
ALso, Blender is in a really good place right now and there are many, many very detailed and comprehensive tutorials available to learn from.
Honestly I'm not nearly motivated enough to do a project like that. All good advice if I ever change my mind though.
I use the Switch Pro controller but it's pretty similar to the Xbone and idk if it has gyro support
issue with that is it doesn't have analog triggers, not very useful for racing games and ace combat :cri:
Well luckily racing games are all terrible and boring so I don't run into that issue
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The original duke xbox controller is my favorite
Wheel and pedals for racing game, flightstick for plane game, the duke for anything else that a mouse and keyboard doesn't do better.
That said I'm a long finger (pianist/surgeon hands) big hands person, not a meaty paws big hands person, so I still generally use whatever controller is standard for a given system