Pico 8 Console Case - WIP

Sat, 19 Nov 2016 17:53:08 UTC

Hey Everyone,

I wanted to show with you my designs for a pico 8 console and the progress I have in making it a real thing! I made the case using tinkercad online.

Some things I wanted:

Look and feel like an NES but with small updates
Hold Raspberry Pi 3 board
Quickly switch SD cards on the Raspberry Pi if I wanted to switch to Retro Pi
Have some more modern edges. NES was great but a bit dated.

Two of the first problems I encountered with this:

SD card wasn't easy to get out. So I had to make a small hole that made it easier to get out. You can see how I fixed this below:
I didn't want screws. So I had to make holes and pegs. You can see this below:

So now to start printing. I chose a strong plastic for this. I didn't want to use PLA because well.. you'll see below...

Notice the part that is messed up is the bottom right of the box. It has a hard edge on the right wall. Looks like my faces in the model messed up somewhere, But the weirdest part is this doesn't show up on hard plastic. Only PLA.. wtf?

so now I'm reprinting it all in hard plastic.. Now we wait. Will keep you updated once I get the software side of things started

kinifi [Lexaloffle Blog Feed]

Pico 8 Console Case - WIP