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"I'm an avid gamer, so controllers rule my life. It all started with a NES, so I wanted to pay homage by using new technology to capture and replicate its old technology. In a technophile's version of an archaeologist creating a plaster cast of a dinosaur's bones, I want to make a 3D printed 'cast' of a NES controller. While working on it, as with gaming, I'm a perfectionist and completionist. As such, I'm incorporating the words 'Control Freak' in the model, and will subtract an accurately modelled NES controller. The result is intended to be a replacement controller body."
To be more accurate, since the controller hardware is directly connected to parts of the buttons and D-pad, I will most likely cut holes out of the model for them to be inserted. The words "Control Freak" will probably appear like a brand cut into the front face of the controller.
An issue I'm currently facing is the fact that in both NES controllers I own, there is one screw - located in the same place for both controllers - that appears to be especially tight, to the point that my attempts of unscrewing it burred the screwhead. This means that I'll need to either buy a second-hand NES controller (probably from Game Traders?) and hope that it can be unscrewed, or unfortunately break one of my controllers to get the hardware out.
I'll keep trying with the screwdrivers tomorrow. Perhaps simply drilling into the existing damaged screw until its head completely detaches is another solution... The controller doesn't need all screws to stay in one piece, so that could well work. Here's hoping!
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