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Wooden Wiimote
MrDelish
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Figured this was the place to put this.
A group I belong to decided to do a pinewood derby amongst the adults. I had seen a weak attempt at a wiimote car before at my mom's Webelos pack derby race, and decided to outdo anything I had done in my youth.
Hours of sanding, cutting, and painting yielded this:
(the thing in the back)
(close up and obvious)
wheels!
a trigger, too. And yes, that is a poorly-etched "Nintendo" symbol where it is on the controller.
A short movie of it losing (it's the very white one):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quZHf_H3E1M
Learned a few things from this:
Always sand when you're going to paint wood. It gets sticky/messy/uneven otherwise.
I didn't take quite accurate measurements, which is why the A button is way higher than it ought to be.
Painting letters is more difficult if imitating an actual font!
Questions? Comments?
A group I belong to decided to do a pinewood derby amongst the adults. I had seen a weak attempt at a wiimote car before at my mom's Webelos pack derby race, and decided to outdo anything I had done in my youth.
Hours of sanding, cutting, and painting yielded this:
(the thing in the back)
(close up and obvious)
wheels!
a trigger, too. And yes, that is a poorly-etched "Nintendo" symbol where it is on the controller.
A short movie of it losing (it's the very white one):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quZHf_H3E1M
Learned a few things from this:
Always sand when you're going to paint wood. It gets sticky/messy/uneven otherwise.
I didn't take quite accurate measurements, which is why the A button is way higher than it ought to be.
Painting letters is more difficult if imitating an actual font!
Questions? Comments?
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If you use steel wool on the paint after it's dried, you can get it so smooth it feels almost like plastic. You might want to wear a mask/do it outside, because the paint grains get everywhere.
Might be worth submitting to Kotaku if you're an attention whore. :P
It actually only managed seventh out of eighteen or so, but won the "most creative" award, netting me a sweet sweet bag of Butterfinger/Crunch squares.
Also layer some fine polyfiller on it, then sandpaper it down using finer and finer grades of sanpaper. Then apply the undercoat and smooth that with some wet and dry in finer and finer coats, reapplying a fine spray of undercoat between sandings. After all that spray it carefully and you can pretty much make the model look lifelike. Oh how i (don't) miss my industrial design degree course!
I lawled
Though I guess you could just take a regular Wiimote and glue wheels to the side.
But seriously, that paint job is atrocious! (sorry!) I sanded my derby cars for weeks to get them to look right. You probably would have won first prize in craft if the paint had been better. Did you use a clear coat afterwards? That can really help the paint on a derby car pop.
Maybe try it again with more sanding? 8-)
Of course, I've only done it on a plastic nosecone and phenolic body-tube (can't remember name) on a rocket, so I don't even know if it works on wood.
Cool idea though.
It looks like styrofoam...