Sonic Controller Stand

Left loose on a desk, a gamepad ends up face-down in a nest of cables. This is a stand built to stop that happening: an upright cradle that holds the controller angled and on show between sessions, keeping it somewhere deliberate instead of buried under a keyboard or a wheel clamp. The styling nods to the blue-hedgehog era of console platformers, so it carries some character rather than reading as another lump of black plastic peripheral. On a battlestation that already runs to a sim rig, a stick or a racing setup, it works as much as a bit of shelf personality as it does storage. Supplied as a small multi-part kit, it suits anyone kitting out a gaming corner — a sensible first accessory project for a printer that has mostly been making brackets and cable clips.