{"id":1413,"date":"2023-01-19T15:41:36","date_gmt":"2023-01-19T06:11:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/?p=1413"},"modified":"2025-01-29T13:51:11","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T04:21:11","slug":"laser-cut-nintendo-switch-webcam-rig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/laser-cut-nintendo-switch-webcam-rig\/","title":{"rendered":"Laser-cut Nintendo Switch Webcam Rig"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Over the December holidays I played a game with John called Aliisha: The Oblivion of Twin Goddesses<\/a><\/em>; an asynchronous co-op game that uses two Switches communicating wirelessly. One player plays in docked or tabletop mode using joycons for occasional motion-controlled inputs and the other plays in handheld mode, taking advantage of the touch screen interface.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since the players have separate views into the game world, I wanted to try recording the handheld player’s screen. I’d previously built a rig for recording gameplay from the WiiU tablet, which we used during the Splatoon 1 era to record the minimap, and I was able to adapt this into a Switch brace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To attach the rig, remove one joycon from the console and slide the brace over the tablet. The brace is then locked in place with a piece that fits into the notch at the bottom of the console. I then slot my webcam – a Logitech C920 into place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have included the files in DXF and SVG format if you’d like to make your own. The files were designed to be cut from 3mm MDF with a .1mm kerf. You may like to try customising this to fit your needs or hollowing out part of the middle section to make the rig lighter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


switch_webcam_stand.svg<\/a>Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n
switch_webcam_stand.dxf<\/a>Download<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Downloadable .dxf file for laser cutting a frame to hold a webcam over a Nintendo Switch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[274],"tags":[532,530],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-admin","4":"has-excerpt","5":"post-1413","7":"format-standard","8":"category-lasering","9":"post_tag-downloadable-pattern","10":"post_tag-nintendo-switch"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}