THE WORK continues, albeit crudely at the moment.

My goal is to make a secure mount for the steam deck that can be attached to the handle of my cyberdock.

A week or so back, I made a mockup of the JSAUX mounting hardware, and discovered that they had made their own tools. Good news, it turns out the tools they released are inadequate for my purposes. TLDR, they just made sample printables that connect to the central mount point, but not to the right side stand connectors... so my creation is a solid value add!

I'm running through a series of test prints to get a piece that fits *perfectly* to all of the rear-mount points. 

As you can see, at the moment, there is some misalignment between 'central' mounting point, and the 'stand' mounting points.

I'm not sure where I went awry... how I made such a large error, but I'm guessing the model I used for the 'central' mounting point got vertically flipped. Or I measured bad. 

Either way, not hard to fix, but then I need to update the JSAUX Mounting Kit Fusion Project and the models on Printables. Trying to make my stuff useful to others adds significant overhead.

Oh RIGHT. The Handle. Using a thing is an awesome way to realize how much it sucks. 

And my handle SUCKS.

Here you can see some of my recent development work on the handle. 

The first one was actually good. It felt solid and had good balance.

Future iterations where I attempted to integrate a device stand made the balance off, and holding it was uncomfortable... though I still haven't given up on the idea of making the handle a device stand. 

The current design shown above, but not yet tested, is a 3 part handle (Left, Right and Rail). The 'Rail' is the actual handle, and it's connected to the cyberdock with thumb screws that allow the user to adjust the spacing to allow for a range of device thicknesses. The practicality of this is yet untested.

Additionally, this rail will be used to mount the Steam Deck Mounting hardware, since the deck is relatively large and heavy, I am using the Left/Right handle mounts and the rear of the chassis itself to help support the deck. 

I chose a standard 'picatiny rail' to augment the handle, giving you something interesting to touch and more importantly providing multiple points of contact that can prevent the Steam Deck mount from slipping around, since it's going to be held on by thumb screws.