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I needed a game card holder for all my Nintendo Switch games and of course I had to over-engineer my own. ;-)
Features:
The design is pretty flexible: It should not be too much effort to modify it so as to have have it one-sided or only one lid per side (or one lid, one side) – originally, it was designed for only three game cards per row. I wouldn't recommend it, but it's possible to add more cards per row…
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Materials:
Lasercut everything in the SVG. Ensure to first cut out the holes (red lines), then the shapes (black). The blue shapes (with pink holes to be cut first) are the acrylic glas parts.
(The light blue slices are just placeholders for the magnets, in case you don't want them or want to use less than I did.)
I used 4mm HDF (game cards are ~3.4mm thick according to my measurements, which leaves a bit of wiggle room for the cards – perfect!), as well as 4mm acrylic glas for the top and bottom to see the content even when closed.
Then, after semi-assembling everything, I inserted the magnets (partly stacks of two and three) into their slots. The length of the magnets ensure that the middle "spacer" parts stay fixed in place. (Originally, I had different magnets that weren't nearly as strong; that's why I added stacks of magnets to the design. Now it's almost too strong – on the other hand, it ensures that it doesn't open when carrying in a bag or something.)
Finally, the screw posts are screwed together (with a bit of threadlocker to fix them together while allowing the covers to rotate).
Works like a charm!
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Picture information:
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Room for improvement:
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