You’ve got a Steam Deck and you’re perfectly happy with it, but you find yourself eyeing the slightly newer OLED model with lascivious envy. What’s a gamer to do? Well, if you also happen to have a 3D printer and an OLED USB-C monitor, you get to printing! That’s what one Deck owner did, slapping a 13-inch screen on top of Valve’s portable gaming powerhouse, making it a lot less portable in the process.
Printables user djared says, “I didn’t want to get a new Steam Deck just to have an OLED screen, so I made this… lol.” Lol, indeed. The 3D-printed bracket clamps onto the front screen of the Steam Deck, like a gigantic version of those phone mounts for a console controller. It’s made specifically for this Innocn 13.3-inch portable USB-C monitor, accounting for its unique rotating kickstand while leaving plenty of room to connect the USB-C cable.
Thanks to the Steam Deck’s easy compatibility with USB-C accessories and external displays, it should be easy enough for it to output to the 1080p screen and take advantage of that luscious OLED color saturation. But when the Steam Deck needs to power both its own operation and a laptop-sized screen at the same time? Expect any similar setup to suck down its battery faster than a teenager going through a 7-Eleven Slurpee. I also wonder if djared is a bodybuilder because holding a Steam Deck and a portable monitor at once must be quite the workout.
The design is available as a free STL file if you want to try printing it out for yourself or adapting it to your own portable monitor. Have fun—and once you’re done, don’t skip leg day.