I modelled and printed a custom mount for my portable monitor for my deck, it's surprisingly comfortable to hold
I’m sorry this is ridiculous
this post was submitted on 07 Jan 2025
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Not for low-vision people or older people who have issues with the smaller screen. Could be a solution if someone like that ended up with a Steam Deck and didn't realize they'd have an issue with the smaller screen, and maybe they just have a spare travel monitor lying around.
Also there's a contingent of people out there who just enjoy modifying stuff because they can. Don't knock it until you've tried it.
Yeah, I usually have my external/portable monitor with me on business trips for work, and the Steam Deck for after-work relaxation. Using my external monitor with it, and don't have to use my work laptop seems like a major plus in my book
Yeah but at what point does it just become a pc with a controller...
That is... Literally how I would describe the steam deck, that's why I love it <3
Cyberpunk theme intensifies
How did you take this picture? 🤔
Asking the real questions. Option 1: I need 2 hands to hold this thing up so I modelled and printed a mount to hold my phone... Or I just asked my partner to take it 😜
Option 3: You need 2 hands to hold this thing up so you modelled and printed a replica of your hand and arm to hold it and took the picture with your real hand
Probably option 1
This guy fucks
The steam deck has a screen built in, right?
Yes.
XD
What monitor is this?
I live in Australia and got it from aldi here bauhn is the brand, I saw a file on printables by a guy that did this with n Amazon screen I'll grab the link for you, he links to the exact model... https://www.printables.com/model/632862-steam-deck-portable-monitor. Good luck if you decide to !!
This looks painful. 🤔
I considered doing this for a bit, but with the power and link cable requirements for the travel monitor, I decided against it. It was too much cordage in too small a space.
But glad it worked out for your needs OP!
Partially related, I do wish they had a Steam Deck SKU with 32GBs for heavy MC modpacks, as it stands the only way to get it is by replacing the soldered RAM, quite the risky upgrade...
Oh well, maybe on the SD2
I have payed better mc mod pack and it ran pretty fine, I play allot of vanilla tho and it runs great, 32 render and sim
I would never do this but it is fucking amazing. Great job!
Mine is docked in a utility cart with a 27” monitor on top 70% of the time. I love these ideas 🤣
Haha yeah I figured why not ay XD
This looks to heavy. My solution was to hold up the screen with a tablet arm but i ended up giving it away cause I don't game in bed.
You’re a madlad!
Fellow minecraft on the deck enjoyer, I see. I wouldn't call myself an enjoyer tho lol It's so hard, much better on desktop.
I can't stop playing on the deck, I love steam input, I built this entire thing on the deck...
That's super cool. It took me a second to realize why the perspective felt so wrong, but once I realized what I was looking at I was amazed.
This is sick, makes me want to start playing minecraft on my deck. What launcher do you use?
Prism launcher, please for the love of god don't use a controller mod, steam input is essential (mouse and keyboard emulation) then you get to use the trackpads as macros for any extra buttons you may need, and the controller mod feels way worse than the kB+mouse
See, this guy gets it
Whoa, that's trippy. Must've been a lot of work!
Any chance you’d be willing to share the STL? I have a 16 inch portable monitor as well and I kinda want to try this when my new printer arrives.
Honestly, I recommend hoping on tinker cad and tinkering with a design, I'm not 100% happy with how it is and I'd like to make some edits, that IMO is the best part about 3d printing..
Hop on thingiverse, download a stl for a steam deck clip, upload it to tinkercad and build it off that initial model exactly how you need it, my monitor has some weird geometry on the back of it and I had to account for that...
Tinkercad is a very easy and beginner friendly tool available online for free, it's just shapes, and if you want to figure out how to do something there is always a short video on how to do it. Also as previously mentioned, you can download any stl file(s) and customise it how you need it.. good luck fren
I had to give up my steam deck bcz the text was unreadable. The zoom feature was too clunky to use. This is great.
is the deck running on battery?
The screen is plugged into power and the deck charges off the screen
damn, nice. I've got a portable screen that does the opposite and charges from its input. I keep hoping someone has invented a magic cord that allows me to split power and video separately from my deck, but then I realized that's exactly what docks are for 🙃
I wonder if you can slap an RPI and controller rails to the screen case and then just use it as a steam remote client.
Yeah I saw someone who did that and had it hooked to a battery, at that point id remote to my desktop..
The things people come up with is great
Maybe I could do this for my Switch 🤔