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When I originally designed my Virtual Boy Tripod Kit, it was the most complicated design I had done up to that point. However to make everything work I needed metal nuts and screw, plus an elastic band to hold everything together.

Since I started modeling my own screws, I wanted to go back to this kit and re-design it to be properly 100% 3D printed without loosing the functionality.

And this was my result. The body's shape is pretty much the same. However I am so please with how the mechanism works for the lock nut and thumb screw.

The screws are a bit tricky to print. But man this is so cool to slim this down.

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[-] nullroot@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Does it make the virtual boy less horribly uncomfortable? I've got two sitting in a closet somewhere

[-] the16bitgamer@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

Depends on the tripod. Being able to have something more sturdy hold it is fantastic, but since it’s juts a 1/4” adapter you can adapt it to anything.

[-] SlartyBartFast@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Now you're playing with power!

How are your eyes holding up?

[-] the16bitgamer@programming.dev 8 points 1 year ago

I can’t tell if I am still seeing red because I played the virtual boy too long… or if my eyes are just bleeding. I’ll check after this headache goes away

this post was submitted on 31 Aug 2025
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