However, one crucial difference I wanted to make was to not use any adhesives in my final product. Adhesives made my work very messy in the first project, so if possible, I wanted to avoid taking that road again. To accomplish this, I decided to add attaching pieces to the arm and bridge pieces, along with holes on the receiving pieces, which would bring the product together without the need for bonding agents. For the arm pieces, the measurements needed to be accurate, or else the controller would not rest stably, so I came up with two different sketches: the J-shaped and K-shaped arm pieces. To give my stand a more reliable base, I went with the K-shapes because the pieces would be thicker and more durable than the J-shaped pieces.

Prototyping

Before touching the acrylic, I had to make sure I could fashion my product out of cardboard and the cardboard would fit nicely with the controller. I drew the outlines of the pieces that I needed. This was fairly simple and I estimated the approximate sizes of each piece by comparing them with the size of the controller. The trickiest part with getting the right outline for the connecting bridge piece was that it had to fit perfectly with the curve of the controller while also allowing for some space for the connecting arm pieces. However, once I had gotten that down, I managed to fit the pieces together using tape as a placeholder for the attaching parts.