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Accessible Gaming buttons are done!
So in an attempt to avoid going completely shack-wacky, I made a bunch of Round Flexure Switches in my free time. I’m donating them to Makers Making Change, the charity I work for.
They are by no means in any form of corporate colour, except perhaps Lisa Frank. The tops are less tactile than I thought they’d be: the top couple of layers are gold PLA and are printed first, then the next layers are bridged above that. They’re almost imperceptible, especially after a thin layer of acrylic varnish.
The bodies are a mix of acrylic paint and ultrafine glitter, layered over with acrylic varnish to limit glitter shedding. The one that looks like a disco tree stump uses heavy gold mica flake medium. The iridescent green is unvarnished, unfinished translucent PET-G (from eSUN; perhaps my favourite material).
From a technical point of view:
- The button nut is hot-glued in place. This keeps the top straight as a nice side effect.
- The nuts are held in place with medium (blue) thread-lock. They won’t come apart unless you use appropriate force. Unlike red thread-lock, you will be able to take these apart for repair.
- Digikey were out of stock on specified parts. These substitutes work directly, though you’ll have to remove a small lever from the microswitch:
- Switch: SS-01GLP Omron Electronics Inc-EMC Div — https://www.digikey.ca/short/zj7zc8
- Audio socket: 35RAPC2AV Switchcraft Inc. | Connectors, Interconnects | DigiKey — https://www.digikey.ca/en/products/detail/switchcraft-inc/35RAPC2AV/772080
can’t think of any games that particularly need these patterns yet 
if we ever need “confused” or “lost” buttons … 
gold mica flake plus neon yellow: I went there … 
glitter magenta and irridescent green 
the pink/blue glitter was a nice touch 
top detail: not as tactile as I’d like, but pretty