Greetings! We have exciting news to share for those of you who want to hack, mod, or design accessories for the Steam Controller and Puck.
Today we're making the CAD files for the external shell (surface topology) of Steam Controller and Puck available for download under a Creative Commons license. This includes an STP model of each, an STL model of each, and an engineering drawing with critical features/keep outs for each. You can find the files here. We can't wait to see what you all...
It’s a warning to those who would likely just break their expensive controllers. Some people know stuff about electronics and can make custom parts and other things. It could spawn a cottage industry.
Product specifications are different for the parts accessible to a user and the parts not accessible to the user.
If you tell a user “you can take it apart” the user will believe the product was made with taking it apart in mind. But it was not.
For example, a toy that is made to be taken apart, like legos, will survive it being taking apart thousands of times. But an electronic device that was made to take it apart only for repair purposes may last only tens of cycles.
So if a user disassembles their controller 100 times, a part will probably break, and the user will complain about it being such bad quality that it broke after taking it apart “a few times”.
That’s why it is important to disclose what you are MEANT to do as opposed to what you technically CAN do.
It’s a warning to those who would likely just break their expensive controllers. Some people know stuff about electronics and can make custom parts and other things. It could spawn a cottage industry.
Do people really need a warning to know that they might break something if they open it up without knowing what they’re doing?
Product specifications are different for the parts accessible to a user and the parts not accessible to the user.
If you tell a user “you can take it apart” the user will believe the product was made with taking it apart in mind. But it was not.
For example, a toy that is made to be taken apart, like legos, will survive it being taking apart thousands of times. But an electronic device that was made to take it apart only for repair purposes may last only tens of cycles.
So if a user disassembles their controller 100 times, a part will probably break, and the user will complain about it being such bad quality that it broke after taking it apart “a few times”.
That’s why it is important to disclose what you are MEANT to do as opposed to what you technically CAN do.
Noice, this is so clear. Thanks. So can you explain other concepts like this ? You look usefull to be around :D
As long as I know the answer, you can ask whatever you want.
Yes.
Yes, and there’s nothing mixed about the messaging. If you know what you’re doing, go ahead. If you don’t, dont.
Usually compsnies would just say no to everyone and throw around words like “unauthorized”.
You underestimate how stupid the average person is.