Custom DIY Nintendo Switch LED Dock!
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- Опубликовано: 5 сен 2024
- Trying to make Nintendo Switch DIY Light Up LED Dock Custom Faceplates
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I wish the company who made the light up dock and faceplates could sell a pack of faceplates for certain games. Like the Mario pack, Zelda pack, and more.
skeptic Hopefully
Maybe they will in the future for other big games. Metroid Prime 4 would look so dope.
skeptic I just want one with Switch or just plain Nintendo branding in general!
Splatoon Pack, Pokemon Pack (on release), Mario + Rabbids Pack
Why, so they can charge the fuck out of their products even more , nah fuck that
Just a heads up, if you sand the top edge of the custom faceplate it will help reflect the light back towards the bottom & make the image more vibrant.
easiest thing to do is literally grab a metal ruler, plastic cutting knife, cut the straight line out, then snap the acrylic on the edge of a table, grab a scroll saw, cut out the rounded corners, then with the vinyl sheets, use a plastic spudger to remove the air bubbles, etc or if you're careful, poke the air bubbles with a very fine point (a pin) and smoothe out the bubbles that way.
PC modders I've seen on YT do this sort of thing all the time, so I'm just relaying information from that side of YT :)
the spudger might damage the vinyl since it is so thin
You need to use a band saw or table saw to cut the shape, and maybe even a blade specially made for plastic. It'd be a lot easier than that saw you used. The sticker needs to be applied with a squeegee or credit card to remove the bubbles, just like you'd go about putting on a screen protector. You can also mix up a little bit of soapy water and apply that to the plastic and then carefully apply the sticker and squeegee the soapy solution and air bubbles all at once, those are vinyl stickers do they'll be fine - that's how you apply vinyl. You'll get a better result that way. Alternatively you can go to your local makerspace and laser etch the image you want on to the plastic.
Cool cool
I don’t have a place near me that can laser etch things...
Luke Whitsell You'd be surprised. Most cities will have a makerspace with a crew of people more than happy to help you out. Even libraries have 3D printers and laser cut/etching machines. Do a quick Google search! Your be surprised, unless you love in a town of 500.
Kilo-Lima the closest place to me with a 3D printer is 50 miles away, and my tiny town has no such thing as a marker space. I don’t live near a city either.
Or you can score and snap the Acyrlic, as that is litteraly the way you are supposed to do it.... That is even how it is done at the hardware store if you get it from them, and how its done in the factory. It is the only way to cut acrylic correctly, unless its over 1/4 inch then it needs special tools or laser cut (its still score snapped till like 3/4 inch, but with a large tool)
If its 1/4 inch you need to score both sides, for this 2mm 1 side is fine. If you snap it by hand, and only score 1 side, you may break the other side not so even. Though you can build a jig from wood to keep all pieces perfect.
Saws and Drilling Acrylic, leaves a high chance of destruction of the piece, without proper tools. Annealed Glass is also score snapped BTW.
Dang this looks 🔥 worth the effort for sure
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Spray Windex on plastic, apply sticker into desired position, use squeegee to push out Windex. This is a trick that should prevent bubbles
NEVER, I repeat NEVER!!! Put Windex on Acrylic, it will destroy it, the first time it will weaken it and could fog it, this is done more so everytime you do it further.
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2:28 this music makes it so intense!
I don't even have a switch and I love watching this stuff
Time to get a chop saw! Can't say it's gonna be just for cutting plastic though
You dont need a chopsaw, they are literally retarded, you score and snap acrylic sheets, unless the sheet is larger than 1/4 thick, in which case you need a special cutting tool. There is even tools to score and snap acrylic sheets. This people are stupid dont buy a chopsaw lmfao.
I wonder if he bought one? hahaha
Hell that's not even a chop saw. It's a miter saw.🤦♂️
To solve the vinyl issue, use the same method that people use for applying a screen protector: Steam up your bathroom (easiest to just wait until just after someone takes a shower), then take your surface area and whatever needs application (in this case, acrylic and vinyl), and use a thick card, like a debit card, I.D., or transit card, to apply pressure and roll out air pockets while applying the vinyl.
The steam supposedly helps keep dust in the air and off of the surface. I thought the GameStop lady was crazy when she said that about the screen protector, but some online research showed that, lo and behold, had I listened, she'd have saved me quite a bit of time.
I used to be a vinyl sign-maker. The second you started applying the Pikachu vinyl, I knew you never took air bubbles into account. We used something called a scraper to apply vinyl to perspex.
You absolutely need an acrylic cutter for cutting acrylic down to size. It may seem like you can achieve the same thing with a regular knife but trust me it's much harder. They're not too expensive and if you want to make several of these I think it is worth spending a few more dollars on.
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Dalton O'Neill how would that work?
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There’s an actual plastic cutter you can get for like 3 bucks. You score the plastic a few times, than put it on the edge of a table or something, apply some pressure and it snaps off. Light sanding needed. For a design, I think that painters tape would work. Cover the whole plastic sheet with it, than cut out your design and than hit the empty spots with sand paper to make it kind of hazy. Than peel off all the tape, rinse it off to get dust and such off, than hit it with a clear coat of paint.
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This is a cool idea and since I work in graphics and have access to cnc routers and vinyl cutters it is very doable. You need to use a squeegee if you do want bubbles or you can try wet application, spray water on surface and graphic it will be easier to get the bubbles out. Once it drys it will stick.
I honestly had no idea about wet application.. Great tip!
I'd make my faceplate the switch logo, then set it to red. Genius.
you can use windex to spray on the acrylic, then apply the stickers, then use a spudger to squeeze out the air bubbles
Use the left over part of the sticker you wanna use and stick that on the plastic and then just sand paper the original pattern and remove the sticker your done, plus the scratch into the plastic should help the light stand out aswell.
I learned in my print making class that scoring the acrylic a few times on both sides and then snapping it on the side of a table is an easy way to cut it 👍
If you have a steady enough hand. You can use a rotary engraver with a sanding bit to do the design
I'm a bit late to the party, but if you have access to a laser cutter, you can just laser cut the acrylic after sketching it up in whatever programs you use for that (for example I get a Dxf file from SolidWorks). When I do this I'm planning on laser engraving a pattern into the acrylic. If you go to a college with a strong engineering program you can probably find a laser cutter too.
It looks good. But I wouldn't buy that lighting dock thing unless PDP makes more faceplate designs.
Arthur Wacker The name of the company that made the light up dock
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For the Vinyl idea here's some tips to make it look better : to get rid of the air bubbles use a credit card or something like one and when you have the clear tape over it and it's placed on the acrylic sheet use the card and go over the sticker ; this gets rid of the bubbles or most .If there are still bubbles use a knife and carefully touch the bubble then use the card again to get rid of it .To let the light shine through more use frosted vinyl as light can go threw much easier.Hope this helps for anyone doing this idea
A laser cutter would probably help out a lot. You can get clean cuts and then etch in a design. Very cool about using stickers though.
Your decals shouldn't have air bubbles in them regardless. You did it wrong, use a credit card, start from the middle and work your way out.
Or use windex if you absolutely have to.
It's easy
Haven't seen the product in person, but laser-etching is a good way to go instead of paint or vinyl stickers for that effect. Also if you do it that way, you can just cut out an exact shape for the border using a different setting on the laser-cutter. Though it's not easy to get access to a laser cutter for everyone. (My local makerspace has one that I used.)
A way you can actually have the light go through is by using the stickers as a template or paper either way and then using your dremel engrave it into the acrylic
Kevin I said another comment, but the artwork is done with a lasercutter you put your artwork into adobe illustrator change the settings and import into laser cutting machine which etches the design onto the plastic and cuts out the plastic for you
I may have an idea of how you can actually make it work, you can make a stencil of whatever design you want and spray paint over it with white paint.
that way there are no air bubbles.
alternatively, you can use that sanding tool you have with a dull head instead of using paint, like people do to make art on glass, that way you will get a partially transparent (and white) design that would look awesome with the lighting :)
hope you see my comment and maybe try this :)
You should use a laser cutter and a CAD software to design the shape and get a smooth and accurate shape
That music was so good, when you were using the chop saw
The sonic and tails one looks so good
You should've used a stencil and an airbrush to paint the plastic sheets. Would've completely eliminated the air bubble problem, and if you had used a thinner type paint, the light would have shown through the design on the sheet much better.
Jeez!! I was really wondering if PDP would make more options. I do really like the LED dock. But man what a process to try to do on your own...
Just take the panel out altogether, its awesome lighting on the nintendo logo and not as blinding in a dark room.
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Im going to try using goo off on one of the pdp slides first before I try shop tools.
I think that the light not piercing through is a nice effect
Great video! Yeah, for sure I wasn't thinking it was gonna be so easy. But acrilic stores do have some specific tools to "print" the idea you want in the plastic piece itself. I don't have much information about the specifics, but maybe a visit in a store wouldn't be so bad. Maybe a part 2 of this video?
Dude..... Literally the best way to cut acrylic is score it with a razer blade (like you already did) then put it on the corner of a surface and apply pressure. It will give a perfect clean cut every time, that is even how they cut it in factory's.
If you are doing other shapes than straight lines, a Bi Metal Saw will work, wood blades should never be used.
Nah it would be simple, you just use frosted glass spray!!! the rest is just really good stencil work
If you scored the plastic enough you could have just broke it off. Should be fairly clean, but sanding it would totally make it better. Also, the sticker idea was pretty good, but you could have just used the negative of the sticker and spray painted the positive area.
I would like you to revisit this led dock but use an acrylic etching solution or a negative of your desired image and sand the image I to the acrylic sheet and see how well that would work
This could actually be incredibly easy to do with a laser cutter (I realize you probably didn't have access to one). Measure out the dimensions of the PDP sheet, recreate it in a drawing on a 3D CAD program, and then insert the design you want on it. I think you could rasterize the image onto the sheet to get that frosty look, but I don't know how the light would defuse through it. I might have to give it a shot!
Super satisfying
I love how you upgraded the saw 😂
Just do the design in illustrator and locate a laser cutter or order it from someone who has one. I'm sure you can skip the stickers and rasterize the design onto the acrylic with the laser as well
The plastic is cut and the design is etched into it with a laser cutter I've used one before and its probably how they are designed because it looks exactly like them. I know they are super expensive but it's how it's done professionally
Just a heads up to anyone who wants to try this there is a $3-$4 tool to cut the plastic sheets it scores the plastic then you snap off the excess. Also you can heat up decals a little bit with a blow dryer and squeegee out most or all air bubbles.
They for sure used a Lazer cutter for those designs by the way they leave that while film behind when you cut the achrilic
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I'm still struggling to find this anywhere in the uk!! Or even somewhere that would ship this to me in the uk!
Just saying as some one who does vinyl sticker work alls u have to do it's either lift the sticker back up and make sure u push the air out while u do it or take a blade and pop them
It came out pretty good. I need to make my own
If you get a Inverted template, where the see-trough would be white and the colored part would see-through, you could apply that Template on the Plastic, and paint with white translucent paint over it, once the template is removed, this would give you a better result. I'll try make a video to explain exactly how I did it.
I would use that sonic faceplate for sure
Thank you so much I now have something I can do as a personal project to give to my friends and family for Christmas
Very good effort. Loved to see people make stuff.
I made stuff like that for car audio showcars.
Loved it and I thing I'll make one for my little brother.
Looks awsome
Nice work on the thumbnail.
I wonder how well spraying frosted glass spray paint then taking the vinyl sticker off would look? It should just act like a mask.
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Chemical etch probably would work better. If you have the equipment to do that sort of thing.
Little too much for me but I admire it and think it's awesome!
You can cut acrylic with scissors underwater, same thing with glass
I own a CNC machine and that all you need to make it perfect. But you guys did pretty good
Amazing content and video. Keep it up just subbed
Why not try engraving the plastic?
If you spray paint over the stickers that didn’t work and then remove the sticker, it should act as a stencil giving you an inverted version of the design you wanted.
I wonder how you'd do using the Glowforge. If you don't know what that is, Google it. It is pretty awesome.
Metal band saw would work very well for all these cuts for future
I've just done this myself the easiest way to cut it getting a box cutter, scoring a line and breaking it.
Can you send me the link to the already made light-up dock? It looks amazing!
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Light Up Dock
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I would love to find somewhere to buy a custom plate that just has the switch branding on it. I live my dock shield, but not a huge fan of the game specific plates. Don't get me wrong, I love Zelda and Mario, but having my switch dock display switch branding would make me happy.
Any print shop with a flat bed printer and router can and will print on acrylic and cut it to spec. Prob will cost around 30-40$
Why not just cast the thing? Make a mold with the desired design, pour some resin solution and voila! Easy, quick and beautiful results.
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Hello Kevin. I’m not sure if this will work but I was thinking if some sort of switch screen protector might work for this. Just though I throw the idea out there
you could do an inverted sticker and then just paint over it. or even better would be to sand
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This is 2 years too late but when I was in art class we had to draw on a mirror. So what we did was tape up the mirror, draw on the tape and carefully cut out our drawing with an exacting knife. Then we used some kind of chemical, some kind of acid that eats through the mirror surface, and it leaves like a white satin finish. Idk how it’ll react to acrylic though
Acetone might be able to do the trick
Now I have yet another use for my laser engraver 😁
5:17 solution for that use a squigy that's found in wall decals or something
Try using pure acetone to make the acrylic withe
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You could use a Cricut machine for custom designs
Shouldn't scoring out the main part with a number of passes and then snapping it off be easier than cutting it out with a big saw?
Scroll saw? I use it all the Time for thin Wood and plastic...
Score and Snap is the proper way to cut acrylic sheet like this. They are dumb and adding lots of unnecessary shit.
I reckon overhead projector sheets would've worked and you could've cut those scissors
Good video
I would've used a laser cutter. You can engrave with one too
or have designs that favour the outer glow caused by the surface area.
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