Right here Are The Winners Of the 3D Printing For Disabled Avid gamers Contest!

It’s time to announce the winners of my 3D Printing contest for accessible gaming! Boy oh Boy did this go higher than I deliberate. To be brutally sincere, I didn’t have excessive expectations regarding the variety of submissions. I’ve been doing this a very long time and, whereas individuals typically need to assist, they normally don’t have the time or expertise or motivation to comply with by. It’s fantastic, it’s simply the best way these sorts of issues go. Nonetheless, I used to be blown away! We obtained over 50 entries into the competition. Lots of them had been merely good.

Judging

Judging one thing like that is almost inconceivable. There’s no “Finest answer” to limb distinction in gaming. There’s no singular repair that solves everybody’s downside. This is without doubt one of the large causes I threw this contest, nevertheless it additionally makes the judging half a little bit of a bizarre idea.

That being mentioned, our panel of judges included 3D printing gurus (Matt Stultz, and Stefan Herman), players who use assistive units (Sam and his father Bobby Neid, and Christian Deriemier), and advocates for accessibility (Christine Getman, and Bryce Johnson). All of them scoured the submissions and picked their prime 5. I then went by their prime 5 and located patterns the place they voted for a similar undertaking. This resulted in a transparent 1st, 2nd, and third place.

Prizes

I used to be in a position to put collectively a reasonably good prize bundle for this contest. Prusa not solely hosted the recordsdata for the competition on their website, additionally they donated a prusa mini and 5 spools of PLA. Pancakebot additionally reached out and donated a machine for the trigger. I additionally determined to buy two extra pancakebots for the 2nd and third place winners.

The Winners.

third

This thumbclick helper for ps4 by Timqui is shockingly easy nevertheless it solves a giant downside. That is a kind of options the place you slap your self on the brow and suppose… why didn’t I consider that?

2nd

Akaki’s single hand Ps5 equipment has been making waves on gaming websites this week. I sort of anticipated this one to win with how a lot consideration it has been getting. I’ve really already printed and shipped 4 of those and have extra requests incoming. I’ve contacted Akaki and provided to pay to have him design an Xbox and ps4 model. He mentioned he’d work on it and didn’t request cash saying that he’ll at all times request ideas, however solely after he publishes the recordsdata.

1st

With probably the most votes from our judges, the primary place winner is that this Xbox controller mod for top-down gaming by TheDogeBork. It’s clear that he put lots of thought into how this is able to really be used. The little joysticks for the buttons is a component I significantly like, and most judges identified that they favored the clamping consideration.