Fed up of placing my Steam Deck on the floor or balancing it on a crowded bedside table. Couldn’t find anything that provided a good secure hold without being ugly, so I designed my own.
Edit: Guys, before raising concerns, asking questions, or pointing out the glaring design flaw you’ve just discovered, please have a quick look through the photos and MakerWorld description first.
There’s a reasonable chance I also noticed it while designing the thing.
Not currently, but there seems to be more interest out there than I was expecting. I’m about to go away for a week, I’ll have a think when I get back if that’s something I could manage.
I am in the UK though, and I don’t think international shipping would be economically viable.
This is very much intended to be a storage place and not a dock for use while gaming. But I tried to accommodate for the vent, in case large downloads were to complete while in the mount, before it going to sleep.
Let me know if you try using it while gaming, be interested to see how it fares.
I would have made slightly more spacious so that it would fit with a case to avoid scratches or add some soft padding for protection. I probably did both to also avoid scratches on yhe case.
Not really necessary, I designed it so that only the bottom is in snug contact. You can see that in one of the images. The surround above that sits 1-2mm away from the deck.
That’s not really how wear works. The existence of friction doesn’t automatically mean meaningful damage will occur.
More importantly, as I’ve already explained, the Deck only sits snugly against the bottom of the holder. The surround has 1–2 mm clearance, so it isn’t being clamped or continually rubbed against the sides.
If somebody actually prints one, uses it, and finds it scratching their Deck, I’ll absolutely revisit the design.
Until then I think we’ve probably exhausted the theoretical tribology of a holder you haven’t used.
You’re now warning me about the exact airflow problem I specifically included an air-intake opening to avoid.
The rear intake is unobstructed, the top exhaust is completely open, and this was designed as a storage/charging holder. All of which is either visible in the photos or explained in the model description.
I’m not sure there’s much value in continuing to troubleshoot the design of more things you haven’t looked at, so I’ll leave it there.
Lol, im a pc builder and maintain a server room at my work place so I know a thing or two about keeping hardware cooled.
Its not my device but my advice is you can eat or throw it away.
People here suffer the dunning-kruger effect.
OP can enable the overlay and share the before and after results when playing cyberpunk for 2 hours, if he dares. With proof de device was in the dock all the time.
Edit: Ive let ai check his dock.
And the fact it's mounted against the wall it's even more fd up. In other words fully bad design.
You’ve now spent several comments explaining why my storage holder is a bad gaming dock.
It isn’t a dock, I explicitly didn’t design it to game in, and the airflow point you keep raising is already addressed in both the design and the description.
At this stage you’re reviewing a product that exists mainly in your own head, so I’m happy to leave you to it.
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u/Apprehensive-Group19 9d ago
Resourceful. Secure and out of the way.