The Nintendo Swap dock set a brand new bar for handheld docking consumer expertise – simply plug your console in to cost it, output picture to your monitor, and hold it working with any USB peripherals of your selection. What if a 3DS is extra your jam? [KOUZEX] reveals off a Swap-style dock design for his attractive yellow 3DS, with Swap Professional controller assist, and this dock wasn’t only a 3D printing job – there’s a good bit of electronics to indicate, too.
Whereas the 3DS appears to be like inventory at a look, it has already been upgraded internally – there’s a USB-C seize card inbuilt, half-ticking the “monitor output” requirement, and a Raspberry Pi board turns that output into HDMI. Constructing a charging dock can also be fairly easy, with simply two contacts on the facet that need 5V. Now, the professional controller assist was a good bit tougher – requiring an inside modchip for emulating buttons, and making an attempt out receiver boards for the Swap controller till a well-functioning one was discovered.
The construct video is kind of satisfying to look at, from assembling some QFNs onto tiny OSHPark boards utilizing a hotplate and soldering them into the 3DS, to planning out, constructing, and dremeling some prints to create a real slide-console-into-dock expertise, similar means the Swap pulled it off. It even has the identical USB-C and HDMI association because the Swap dock, too! Desire a easier dock on your 3DS? Don’t neglect that you could construct a charger dock for yours with only a 3D print and some wires.
