Irrespective of the seat of honor it enjoys in basically tens of millions of homes, the official Nintendo Change Dock is undoubtedly significantly from excellent. For a single, it is not milled out of a hefty block of aluminum. A fewer clear but no much less essential situation is that the ports are positioned variety of uncomfortable – [Kevin] from Modified imagine that the USB ports should be going through the front aspect, even though the HDMI, Ethernet, and charging inputs should really be on the bottom — a realistic situation. He established out to fix equally of these problems at the exact time, and tells us the CNC-heavy rebuild tale in a shorter but charming video clip.
The unique dock is composed of two PCBs, and these two boards are the only factor [Kevin] did not redesign from scratch. As they are linked with a flexible cable, he could freely rotate and consequently totally reposition the ports-outfitted board with out soldering. He included some standoffs to protected this board to the circumstance, and immediately after 3D printing a couple of iterations for take a look at-fitting, the milling went on for all of us to marvel at.
The ensuing dock is pretty, practical, and even has some further capabilities — for occasion, the “i” in the embossed Nintendo emblem lights up when the dock is in use. In no tiny element due to the Nintendo logo, we never expect this one to grace shop shelves, but we hope that it supplies inspiration to other makers to do their builds. If you like this rebuild and crave much more, regardless of whether you might be wanting for inspiration, CNC function insights, or quite milling videos, [Kevin]’s milled Xbox scenario undertaking is an fantastic “Watch next” preference.
