v4.5.0

Features

• Many components for the Buildable Stick System - Arcade Edition --- pieces to create a control enclosure for the Qanba
  2009 base! These pieces live in extras/bss-ae/ but do use some parts from the base project; check that subdir's
  README.
• Created a Sega 2P 11 button layout, basically following the curve of the fourth column and adding a fifth, plus one
  extra button
• More decorative plates, this time square ones for an NES-styled project.

Improvements

• Button layout positions for Sega 2P and directional arc layouts have been parameterized.
• The decorative plates for the directional arc + W and Sega 2P 9 layout have been split into two files, since there was
  no reason to keep them as one with multiple pieces anymore.
• Tweaks to the horizontal stripes in order to get them to print better.
• Renamed "Sega 2P plus one" to Sega 2P 9, following the pattern of the 11 layout.

Miscellaneous

• Renaming of extended side pieces to fit the front/back idiom.
• Cleanups to the demos.

v4.4.3

Features

• Windowed frame wall pieces were made for the "clean" front/back walls that line up with the extended sides.

Improvements

• The inner wall piece has been thickened, bringing its surface closer to the end of the outer wall windowed frame
  pieces, making the window less deep and the inner wall easier to see.
• The inner wall piece has been shrunken on the Z in order to leave some material on the outer wall and thus improve the
  friction fit and clamp of the outer wall piece, which was too weakened by the unsupported top and bottom otherwise.

Miscellaneous

• Documentation updates, especially around the printing of parts.
• Corrected the names of some pieces that were accidentally duplicated from the file they were copied from rather than
  what they were, or otherwise didn't match the standard pattern (such as it is).

v4.4.2

Bugfixes

• Fix a regression with the small button screw-in space cutting into the frame wall supports. The screw-in space is
  potentially more important for some nuts than the thickness of the frame wall supports, so the latter have been
  thinned slightly.

v4.4.1

Features

• A new lever + Sega 2P 6 button panel has been added. The overhang version hadn't been updated in forever, but the
  inset panel moved stuff around in a way that allowed a couple aux buttons to fit in, so those have been added to the
  overhang panel as well.
• A horizontal stripe frame windowed piece has been added. YMMV may vary a bit on this vs. an empty window --- you can
  see less of the inner object with the stripes, but it's a bit more stable.

Improvements

• The frame wall slashes have been made a bit more reusable.
• The area around button holes for screw-ins has been tweaked to be a bit smaller for 30mm buttons and a bit larger for
  24mm buttons.

Miscellaneous

• A bottom overhang panel was positioned incorrectly in the demo file; this has been fixed.
• Added a demo of the one-panel overhang lever + 6 button stick.

v4.4.0

Features

• New "windowed" frame box walls have been added, which allow for seeing through the outer wall to something else, such
  as an inner wall of a different color, or for people who like showing off their wiring, nothing.
• An attempt at a two-panel "shiokenstar" layout has been added.
• The "plates" decorative plate for my favorite layout was altered since I wasn't using it anyway.

Improvements

• The frame routing hole, in either the whole frames or the interconnect, is a semicircle on one side, making it easier
  to wire (and rewire) a completed arcade stick, and it also makes button layouts that span the connection point more
  possible.
• Less of the inner wall is cut out for e.g. Neutrik and aux buttons now, removing the possibility for inset panels to
  allow for a tiny bit of light to seep the cracks and giving panels a bit more support.
• The piece-based frame walls now meet at 45 degree angles at the corners, which makes for fewer print anomalies to
  catch your hand or clothing on. These 45 degree angles are not used for the TE1-style extended panels, which still
  meet at 90 degree angles.
• All of the core arcade stick parts, and extras, have been reorganized and renamed into subdirectories that make their
  purpose more obvious. This also makes it clearer what you're looking at when looking at the project file structure.
  Documentation was updated throughout for this change.

Miscellaneous

• A stand for showing off inset-based sticks has been added to extras. This may get more love in a future release.
• The blown up demo now uses frame pieces, as these are quickly becoming the standard build.
• Cleanups to CONTRIBUTING.md
• Demos have been given their own place in the repository.
• The Makefile has been altered to use a Python script to build the files, due to the complexity of reorganizing the
  project into subdirectories.
• An abandoned floating stand has been moved into the attic --- it barely works right.

v4.3.1

Bugfixes

• Fix frame side piece trying to import renamed frame top left piece.

v4.3.0

Improvements

• The posts on the panels, meant to improve connection with the frames, have been removed --- they never accomplished that goal and just made things harder. v4.2 panels are not compatible with v4.3 frames, but you can also just cut the posts off and everything should work.

Miscellaneous

• Documentation cleanups:
  • With the posts removed, the assembly instructions are simpler now.
  • After more fiddling with the new designs and prints, some spurious recommendations to the printer settings have been removed.
  • The two top frame pieces, left and right, were identical shapes, so they were deduped.

v4.2.1

Miscellaneous

• Documentation updates, mostly around printing and assembling a full stick.
• The built "distributable" ZIP file now includes the license and some documentation.

v4.2.0

v4.2.0

Features

• The separate frame face pieces now have a couple bevel variants, to bevel either the sides or the sides and the bottom of the enclosure, in a TE1-like fashion. Naturally, they take a bit of time to print, but they add a bit more weight, and definitely more styyyyyyyyle.

Miscellaneous

• A bit of documentation on how to get the inset panels (or any panel really) out of the inner lip was added, before I forget the trick I use to not break the plastic.
• Some README and other documentation updates from after I tagged v4.1.0

v4.1.0

v4.1.0

Features

• The frames are now provided as separate face pieces; this is probably going to be the way forward for the project, given the ease in printing and heightened print quality, compared with a fairly minimal compromise in finished unit sturdiness.

Improvements

• The bottom panel is now inset into the frame again, as it was in v3.
• The top frame bevel has been improved, and added back to the bottom.
• The bottom frame and panels now use posts to connect the two, same as the top. These may be a bit tight still, I'm still playing with it.
• The frame interchange hole is now a diamond, simply because it's easier to print.
• Overhang panels also have a bevel now, replacing the usage of an external roundedcube object.
• More elements have been properly parameterized, for flexible redesigns in the future.

Miscellaneous

• Docs and supporting material cleanups:
  • Link to the IRC channel (even if I'm the only one in it).
  • The copy of the GPLv3 is updated (it's easier to read now).