[General Accessories] ReMix3D:
Hi everybody,

Since a moment I wanted to have an easy way to mount my smartphone (a huge Galaxy Note 2) on a gamepad for playing comfortably some games (mainly emulators), or even, transform it in a nvidia shield look a like, with the help of the awesome Limelight app.

I didn't want to buy a bluetooth controller with a built-in mount because I'm afraid that their size would be to small for my big hands, and I already have some controllers at home.

I didn't want to buy a unique holder (like GameKlip) that fits only one type of gamepad and one type of smartphone.

So final I did one myself, for quite cheap.

I like it so much that I wanted to share how I did it with you guys, so if one day somebody here wants to do something similar, it can serve as a base, or give him some ideas.

What you need :

a small universal smartphone holder (I've used this one)

at least one plastic buckle (I've gathered some from a broken backpack, or you can buy some)

some rubber band

a small right-angle plastic thing (see photos bellow)

a drill

a cutter knife

hot glue and it's pistol (or something with the same usage)

recommended : sand-paper

1) The support
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Remove the remaining straps from the buckle if there are any.

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For the "right-angle plastic thing", I took a remaining accessory of one of my Swedish furniture :

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Cut it with the cutter knife in order to the part to fit on the angle on the top of your controller (near where the wire is if it's a wired one).

Don't forget to cut a U shape for the controller's wire.

Drill four holes, two on the top of the piece, and two on the bottom, at each side of the hole for the wire.

Pass the rubber band through the holes and make a knot to have two loops, one a each side of the support.

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Finally, glue the female part of the buckle on the back of the support, the opening pointing upward.

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I've sanded a bit the plastic piece and the buckle where I planned to glue them, to be sure that the glue will work well.

2) The holder
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This part is easy, simply glue the male part of the buckle on the holder, the "spiky" part pointing downward.

Again, I sanded the two pieces a bit.

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When mounting the stuff on my XBox360 controller, it gives me this :

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3) Perma-mount and size adaptation
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Because my phone is a bit heavy, or the rubber band to elastic, the holder doesn't stay totally fixed when the phone is in place. I will probably need to double the rubber bands or something like this.

But anyway, since I didn't managed to get the XBox360 controller to work at 100% with the phone, I decided to use one of my Ouya controllers. It's bluetooth, and works already quite well. It has also a nice flat surface between the triggers on the back.

Instead of using the rubber-band based mount, I decided to directly glue a male plastic buckle on the back (I had four same buckles).

It gave me a perfectly stable removable holder !

The phone mount I've used was intended to hold phones in portrait orientation, and I couldn't fix my phone in landscape.

I've found a small rubber bouncing ball and worked it a bit with the cutter knife to fill the gab between the holder and the phone (Anything similar, like a school eraser, should do the job). Since it's rubber, it fits and grips the phone very nicely.

The best of all, I don't need to remove the protecting case to use it !

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I hope that you enjoyed reading all this, and that my little tests gave you some ideas if you also want to make a cheap phone holder.

Leave a comment if you have any questions or remarks !

Best regards,

ReMix