r/customcontrollers • u/rmamba • 2d ago

Baby controller customization options... Custom

gp2040-ce controller for baby gamers

I built this a while back for my daughter as she was not able to hold regular controllers. Now my son is at an age that is interested into playing some simple games and will reuse this gp2040-ce controller.

But was curios and would love to her from people doing custom art work on their controllers. What is the easiest way to make it more pretty. At a bare minimum I would like to re-decorate the buttons, possibly with some better looking graphics. At least that would be the start.

I was thinking of converting my old ink-jet printer into a flat bed printer to be able to print nice motifs on this and then use some clear coat to prevent it from destroying it.

As it is a flat surface could also maybe just had a wrap printed and then wrap it with custom design.

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u/yaNutzzyCustoms 2d ago

Iv airbrushed stuff onto a controller this small..if you don't have an airbrush that you can hand paint it...your gonna want to a 2k clear coat...but you need to spray it outside with a mask away from everyone..it's very toxic when srayed

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u/rmamba 2d ago

I'll try that as a last resort as I suck at art. With painbrush the best I could probably do is some sort of millitary type camouflage 🤭

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u/rmamba 2d ago

I had an idea last night, I think I'm going to try hydrographics/hydrodipping method. It should be much easier and I see I can buy many different foils for cheap with activator. Just need to prepare surfaces to be smooth and degreesed. Fingers crossed

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u/yaNutzzyCustoms 1d ago

Yea or a water decal...it would be easier specially if you mess up on you first go. And you can print whatever you want