A 3D printer gave my Nintendo Switch a real D-pad

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Nintendo has a long history of building innovative game controllers -- the company put shoulder buttons on the SNES gamepad, added force feedback to the

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and made a fad out of

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with the Wii. Its most enduring innovation, however, has always been the humble D-Pad: a

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that lets players input eight different direction inputs with precision and ease. Strangely, however, this iconic control pad was left out of the

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, and I miss it every time I play the system. So, I did what any reasonable tech blogger would do: I used a 3D printer to make my own Nintendo Switch D-pad.

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