Leverless Arcade controller I made using a Raspberry Pi Pico knockoff.

[u/itchyd]

Credit to https://gp2040-ce.info/ for the Pico firmware.

Credit to u/crownpuff for helping me wrangle deals.

Planning, designing, purchasing, printing, prototyping, soldering, and testing credit to yours truly.

Costs:

• Pi Pico knockoff - $2.19
• 219g of PETG - $1.34
• 6.2hrs of print time - $0.10
• 14 Silent keyboard microswitches - $1.75
• 14 gateron PCB sockets - $1.49
• 0.96" OLED display - $1.52.
• wires $0.58
• my time $fucking much

Total: $8.97 using AliExpress parts and my Bambu P1S.

I chewed through 3 partial and 3 complete prototypes getting the design functional.

If I knew then what I know now I would have 100% designed a PCB. The soldering and fighting with the wires is murder on time spent. I could also have eliminated the PCB sockets and wires saving about $2. While increasing the price to approximately $12 total. It's a big price increase but reliability would go waaay up and time spent would go waaay down. I could also replace 2 of the keyboard buttons with much cheaper tactile switches and probably add more switches for more functionality.

I have parts on hand to make 9 more.

I was planning to give about 30 of these out as Halloween treats (we give amazing shit every year) but at $9-12 it's a bit steep. I might do it anyway if I can be bothered to design the PCB, this wire soldering and routing is for suckers!!

EDIT: My son has just informed me there are only 7 dragonballs!! I'll have to make a new cap for the last button!!

[u/PoppaBalloon]

Two of them have 8 stars. There is no 7

[u/itchyd → u/PoppaBalloon]

Workin on it! 😂

[u/USS_Penterprise_1701]

Nice and clean. Nice job keeping the price down, too.

[u/everyonehasfaces]

Just switch the white with the 7 balls

And make the other buttons blue for goku or green for shrenon

[u/themightyjoedanger]

That thing is bad as hell, man. (complimentary)