Game controller

I saw this game controller accidentally in my nephew so i decided to make a game controller like it .

but i went through more challenges :

• the design which has curves which is not easy to be done from the flat wood by the laser cutter. how can I design it using fusion 360 and how can it be perfectly fabricated by the laser cutter?

• Arduino Uno with Atmega328 microcontroller ( its brain ) which I used to use cannot easily communicate with computer by USB-b class connector . so how can we control and connect between pc & my game controller ?

• wiring six push bottoms together

Let's see which one I solved and which one I couldn't :D

1. Top bottom

• sketching a rectangle then I drew circle the mirrored it then I made an offset leaving 2 mm in the circles and continuing to the rectangle lines.

• extruded then Project the tap and holes for the screws which made in the sides in the flat pattern then Extruded cut

• then I copied the top body for the bottom body

2.sides

I needed to make a curve and it only happen by living hinge patterns but to know where can you create the pattern , I went to the sheet metal where I flanged the offset lines which made in the circular then automatically the bend lines were made and i started to draw the pattern between them.

*Pattern*

• I draw colinear lines .

• use dimensions and equal tools to make it with same dimensions and gaps

• I wanted to bend the tap also so I had to make sure that it has pattern also, one line cut and the other doesn't. _look at the last picture_

• I applied the rectangular pattern, choose Spacing the gap between my pattern was 1.8 so i made the distance 3.6 because I had two gaps