Who is 'Functioneered'?
Well, I have an AuDHD son that my wife and I needed to find a community of acceptance for. He's been into Beyblade Burst for years, but when I found our local mall had a game store that hosted Beyblade tournaments, I knew he would love it. Our first tournament we weren't prepared at all and only arrived with 2 Beys. We left that tournament with 6 Beys, none of which I paid for, they were all given by the kindness of the Beyblade community.
As the months went on, I knew he needed a tournament box, so I 3D printed one from the online market and quickly saw that there were some really neat designs. I'm a bit of a nerd myself, so I thought it'd be cool to design one for him. My first goal was to make a box that is ridiculously over-engineered (because why not?). I had the idea of a platform that would raise as the lid was opened, but never got that to work well (still have some ideas though). At this point, I was just going to make a 'clamshell' box for him so it was less 'box' looking, when I had the idea of having a 'tray' that pushed out as the lid opened. When starting to model the box, I noticed that he kept spare parts in his current deckbox, so I included that to my design. Several weeks and dozens of prototypes later, I had my first working version... There was 1 problem, the lid closed on its own, so I had to fix that....
Around the time where I had made 1 other box for a friend of his, I made the comment to him that I should reserve the coolest creations just for him. After all, he is my son! His response was the best. He told me I should sell them so everyone can have something this cool. So here we are! :)
