Hello!
My name is Kyle Davis and I'm an aerospace engineer from Georgia Tech. My longtime girlfriend (and hopefully future wife) is an Industrial Engineer, and fellow gamer.
The problem with that? The controllers don't actually fit her hands. I started looking into it after she'd complained about it, and I realized that smaller controllers are pretty much exclusively marketed to children and are total pieces of junk.
I've started working on trying to design something for her, and while doing research have come to the conclusion that this is an extremely common problem.
I started looking into the physiology of women's hands, and it turns out that the musculature in women's hands tends to be different than men's. As such, not only is the size a problem, but often the switches used under the controller buttons are too heavy.
As such, my design's kind of spread. I'm working toward something like the Xbox One Elite controller, with programmable paddles, higher quality materials, etc., but with switches that can be changed, potentially using something off the shelf like Cherry switches from a keyboard.
I've followed your portables since the SNESp went viral over a decade ago.
So, I guess my point here is that I am curious as what you'd come up with while making a controller for smaller hands, while maintaining the higher functionality of some of the competition controllers that exist like the Scuf or Xbox One Elite controller.
Thank you very much for the years of the Ben Heck Show, cool projects, and for reading my message,
-Kyle Davis
