Valve have released the CAD geometry for the Steam Controller

Seems they followed trough with their "build your own Steam controller" idea :) Interesting....

I like to see than valve thinks this is the way to go

This is cool. I would love for someone to make a 6-button layout on the front & perhaps a D-pad in the vein of the old Sega Saturn/Genesis pads if possible since I play a lot of street fighter. In any outcome, I think only good can come from this.

Pretty cool that valve kept their promise and released the models to the public. I wonder, under which license do they publish them? I do not see any mention of a license in the source, I hope that it'll be something like [creative commons](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) to allow everyone to profit from it.

Their idea for a storage place for the adapter is bitter, something I sorely miss because I still am not using the controller often enough to keep the adapter plugged in.


Last edited by Liam Dawe on 11 May 2020 at 5:39 pm UTC

Pretty cool that valve kept their promise and released the models to the public. I wonder, under which license do they publish them? I do not see any mention of a license in the source, I hope that it'll be something like [creative commons](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) to allow everyone to profit from it.

Considering their usual approach, a new Steam Store section dedicated to make to order Steam controller pieces designed by the community would be more likely. But with that kind of small-scale production and the relatively large shipping costs, I don't think it would be a feasible business model when 3D printing is starting to be commonplace.

Now let them open source the firmware and document the protocol...

I wanna see two joysticks instead of pads if that's possible with the circuit board.

I would like a chatpad

Pretty cool that valve kept their promise and released the models to the public. I wonder, under which license do they publish them? I do not see any mention of a license in the source, I hope that it'll be something like creative commons to allow everyone to profit from it.

Their idea for a storage place for the adapter is bitter, something I sorely miss because I still am not using the controller often enough to keep the adapter plugged in.

[url=/uploads/steam-controller.webm]A little animation I made.[/url] ([url=/uploads/steam-controller.mp4]mp4[/url])

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type='video/webm;codecs="vp9"'/>
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Unless you're talking about something else, the files are under creative commons, it's mentioned in the quoted text :)

Pretty cool that valve kept their promise and released the models to the public. I wonder, under which license do they publish them? I do not see any mention of a license in the source, I hope that it'll be something like [creative commons](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) to allow everyone to profit from it.

Their idea for a storage place for the adapter is bitter, something I sorely miss because I still am not using the controller often enough to keep the adapter plugged in.

[url=/uploads/steam-controller.webm]A little animation I made.[/url] ([url=/uploads/steam-controller.mp4]mp4[/url])

Unless you're talking about something else, the files are under creative commons, it's mentioned in the quoted text :)

eeuhh no, guess I did not read that properly the first time. Or they used valve time to create a time loop making my suggestion reality before I had the idea in the first place.

if someone could make a version where the shoulder button position is a bit easier to reach

Are you using middle fingers for the triggers and index fingers for bumpers? No reaching required and is very comfortable.

When controllers first started having daul shoulder buttons I always hated that I was required to use index fingers for both buttons. Coming back from that was a little weird at first but so much better in the end. :D


Last edited by N30N on 25 Mar 2016 at 8:22 pm UTC

This is cool. I would love for someone to make a 6-button layout on the front & perhaps a D-pad in the vein of the old Sega Saturn/Genesis pads if possible since I play a lot of street fighter. In any outcome, I think only good can come from this.

Unless they also release the software and drivers into the public domain, it's unlikely you're going to see any radical change to the current control layout.

I wanna see two joysticks instead of pads if that's possible with the circuit board.

Also known as an Xbox 360 gamepad.

Me? I'd rather see Valve ditch the analog stick entirely and replace it with four additional buttons. The touch pads are awesome. I never want to use a dual analog stick controller again.