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3D Printing a Holder for the Poorly-Design Apple TV Remote

I hate the Apple TV remote. It is symmetrical with no way of knowing which end is which. And it is small, light, and slippery. You can easily get it backwards in the dark. Annoying. I immediately placed a little Velcro dot on mine, under the front end, to orient it without looking.

Ray Mowder of Tableft_Workshop hates his Apple remote, too. He solved the problem by 3D printing a little cradle for it. It has little nubs on the side for orientation and it adds some grip (with grip-tape beneath), and weight.

He will be posting the STL file to his account on Thingiverse soon.

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A homemade remote control with Cherry keyswitches

On the Facelesstech blog, comes the design for an infrared remote using Cherry keyswitches:

I’ve got a TV in my garage that I use to test things out on, I lost the remote for it, when I did find it, it had seen better days. This got me thinking that I should just make my own with just the basic functionally that I need.

Hardware

  • Arduino pro mini
  • MX cherry blue keys x5
  • GX-12 5pin connector
  • TP4056 USB C charger
  • DD0505MD DCDC boost
  • IR LED 940nm
  • IR receiver
  • Lipo
  • 3 way switch

With most projects I try to introduce A new part or a new way of doing something, This time it’s the MX cherry blue keys I’m using as buttons. I could have just used boring clicky button which would have made it much smaller but I wanted to try using these as button to see how well they work. I have also got a 3d printer while doing this project which makes it easy to make custom keycaps for it.

As for the case, a 3D print is used as an enclosure for a project.

See the video below, the blog post for the details and GitHub for the project code and designs.