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Buttons on Portable Game Cases

ceafin
ceafin over 10 years ago

Ok, I guess my brain just can't make the leap between seeing people and their projects open and buttons just on little break out boards, and then once it's closed up. Anyone have a verbose tutorial or picture album of how one actually mounts button on their portable or any project for that matter. Screwed, glued, snapped... to the front plate, the back plate... on posts...

 

I want to build out a just another R.PI portable gaming handheld, but I'm stumped on installing/mounting buttons.

 

Please and thank you!

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  • kidiccurus
    kidiccurus over 10 years ago

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    Apologys for the awful diagram, drawing on a touchscreen is challenging to say the least. Generally, a tact switch is mounted on some perfboard and mounted onto the case via some spacers. The spacers give room for a button which goes through the hole in the case to accurate than tact switch when pressed. Good mounting of the perfboard and a lip on the button is essential.

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  • ceafin
    ceafin over 10 years ago in reply to kidiccurus

    The diagram is pretty understandable, but doesn't that make for a pretty weak resistance for when someone is going to town on their buttons? Seems like it would just push through if someone got a little too intense with it.

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    kidiccurus over 10 years ago in reply to ceafin

    That is why good spacers are important. They may also be attached to the back of the case to push on the back of the board. A lot of hot glue doesn't go amis either.

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