Good morning fedi

I have finally made it. 3DS XL with USB-C

It is kind of a hack-job and looks the part, but it works. (There won't be any images of the internals, since I do not want to scare people or get bonked. There is glue and painters tape involved lol)

I had no Hot-Glue on hand so normal glue has to do it. Lets hope it still holds up

The case was botched pretty bad before anyway so I do not care how pretty much bad it looks. With more patience I could have done a better job but

Best thing: It actually works lol.

There is a downside. The pen does not really fit into it anymore. Rather it fits but it puts pressure on stuff which is... not good.

And I need to replace a cable for the shoulder-buttons (R and ZR) since I broke off the connector from the cable while trimming the case. at least thats easy, since its 2 screws really.

@moppi Ich konnte es nicht lassen also habe ich mal den nächst besten Meme-Generator bedient

I am actually having fun doing some programming right now. There is actually a problem I have I can solve with programming lol. Something that helps when I want to learn new stuff.

Allow me a quick tangent to explain what the goal is....

I really like playing the konosuba TRPG at the moment. I found two comfy groups to play with keeping me busy at the weekends (for 2 of any given month atleast)

I kinda was not the biggest fan of all the math I needed to do to create a character (especially since you have to redo lots of math when leveling up)

Since I don't really know any programming language. I made what everyone would do. Create a Spreadsheet. That was ... fun. I did get it to work how I wanted in the end. Which is cool. Really proud of what I made.

There is one problem. If I have to update the sheet for any reason (like wrong formulas or correct and add new skills) my players need to rebuild their character in the new sheet from scratch. It does not take too much time to do. But is something one could avoid.

I had that idea for a long time now to create a little program for this instead with a GUI component that is separate from the database portion (even a proper one!). So I could update the database any time I wanted and the players just need to drop in the new database and be done.

(And yes I did use the spreadsheet as a sudo-database maybe not the best decision oh well)

I have choosen python for the project since its all I really know even the tiniest bit (not that I know that much of it anyway, but debugging it is kinda nice I suppose...) from building a web scraper with it once.

I knew you could build GUIs with python. So I started searching around. Found pySimpleGUI and started with that only to get limited quite quickly and throwing that idea in the bin.

I found tkinter, which is a standard library in any python install. This is great since my players only would need python on their PCs as of now. I will likely need to add a dependency later for sqlite anyway, but why pull more stuff then necessary right?

The tkinter-GUI looks kinda bland and dated but it works so

I am starting to figure out some stuff and have made some progress. Right now I am just building the GUI without (much) logic behind it. Just so I have everything in place in terms of variables later. The screenshot shows my progress so far.

I already figured out how to make Input Boxes, Labels, Dropdowns and Tabs (weee)

That table at the bottom is built likely absolutely horribly but I needed many variables to do math with... So each column and row has its own variables. with lovely names as "Base_Stat_Attribute_Strength" and "Class_Mod_Strength" and "Class_Mod_Strength_Number"

That should help me atleast to implement the logic easier later.

I started using Code-OSS for this project and have to say that microsoft does have build a nice editor for code. I could even add a Python debugger later which makes testing the file easier (instead typing commands to start the file into a terminal).

The one thing I saw in pyCharm which Code-OSS does not seem to have (yet?) is a nice list of all the variables I have defined which might be nice to implement the logic later.

If anyone of you has some ideas for useful stuff in Code-OSS let me know. I only know by now I won't use PyCharm since it seems like really heavy on processing power (Laptop fans spun up for sure when I started that lol)

Hey fedi maybe someone of you wants to help me out with something.

I grabbed myself another new 3DS XL since I broke the last one I had by being dumb. It is generally in good condition technically. Has some minor damage cosmetically.

There is something which is a bit unfortunate. You can see it on the attached 3rd image. You can see a gap on the left side of maybe 1 millimeter. The Hinges generally work well though being a bit wobbly.

This seems to be a common issue with these things. Some suggest taking it apart and applying some tape to the hinge.

Tbh I am not super comfortable taking one apart after breaking the last one by doing so.

Generally the gap does not hinder function but it looks kinda dumb tbh and it kinda makes me unconfortable lol seeing it. Also I dunno if it is really all that healthy for the device?

Anything you guys can suggest I could do about it?