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The Nintendo 3DS is going to be released on 03/27/2011, but you can have a 1:1 paper version of it in a few hours for free!
It can do basically everything what the original one can do - except gaming (and the WiFi-connection doesn't work - in case that disappoints you).
Attention: This is not an easy model. I took care to keep important details, nerd-spoken it is not an Arcade-version, it is a Simulation-version.

The full PDF is downloadable at http://www.kamibox.de
 
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Step 1: History

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No one cares for this step. It is completely unnecessary but I feel the desperate urge to tell something about the 3DS and the development of the papercraft model in order to give the Instructable an intellectual touch.

The Nintendo 3DS is the sequel generation of the Nintendo DS, released 6 years ago. The Nintendo DS itself is not a sequel to any generation, it came 5 years after the Game Boy Advance, but doesn't call itself a Game Boy.
As the Nintendo DS had 4 versions, the Nintendo DS Classic, Nintendo DS Lite, Nintendo DSi and Nintendo DSi XL, which all belonged to the same handheld-generation, it is inevitable that the 3DS will also have other versions, which may come in 1-2 years. The current design resembles that one of the Nintendo DS Lite, as shown in the comparison below.

The most innovative feature is the 3D-without-glasses effect on the top screen, the lower screen is touch-sensitive. Additionally to the original DS, it has a slide-pad, 2 outer cameras to take 3D-pictures and play AR-games, one inner camera, Street-Pass etc.

The papercraft model of the 3DS is already a few months old, but the design was minimally changed and so I had to edit the model a bit. I took all size details and pictures that had been released as references and I hope that it is very close to the original one.
Win Guy says: May 14, 2012. 8:05 PM
Awesome! I love papercrafting AND my 3DS, so this I'll have to try. 5/5 and faved.

(I'm using my 3DS to comment!)
:)
Win Guy

P.S. Your Black 3DS link is broken... I found another source:
http://blog.livedoor.jp/miniaturenews/archives/2318958.html
It's in Japanese, but it works.
nerd97 says: Apr 29, 2012. 12:46 PM
What if you just built it on top of a DS to make it look like a 3DS? that might work (if it was hollow).
GEORGE41708 says: Apr 22, 2012. 9:23 AM
WOW o_O
EvanHappy says: Mar 17, 2012. 8:40 AM
It's true. I've tried copy and pasteing them and nothing ever happens. Could you please post some JPEGS of them? That would be nice for us all. Good instructable though.
achris4321 says: Sep 21, 2011. 1:19 PM
I love blue and black but is there one for dsi XL
Derpancakes says: Aug 19, 2011. 6:35 PM
yah.. the links lead nowhere, could you post jpegs of them in the instructable?
zack247 says: Jun 26, 2011. 3:25 PM
this is very well done!
and thats coming from a sony player.
JoeComputerman1996 says: Jun 14, 2011. 12:58 PM
dead links
endeavourkid says: Apr 30, 2011. 1:54 AM
nice
masterchief1257 says: Apr 27, 2011. 7:32 AM
im so excided i cant wait to get mine its a real one not paper
skyfaller says: Apr 18, 2011. 7:59 AM
I scanned through the instructable and noticed one thing. There's no stylus? That's a really important thing in the 3DS. Kinda.
-devil.chic- says: Apr 2, 2011. 4:10 AM
who got blue and who got black?
skyfaller says: Apr 18, 2011. 7:58 AM
Blue.
ProgMetalMan says: Apr 11, 2011. 5:35 PM
Blue
nlueth0913 says: Mar 13, 2011. 12:38 PM
HAHAHA! Im soooooo excited for the 3DS to come out!! I PRE-ORDERED IT!
MetaRidley2 says: Mar 18, 2011. 7:12 PM
Cool so did I !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
skyfaller says: Mar 21, 2011. 5:42 PM
So did i.
lord_kian says: Mar 11, 2011. 3:23 PM
cool, this fool me for a second
exterminator says: Mar 8, 2011. 9:21 PM
That looks alot similar to the ds.
aleceatsfood says: Mar 8, 2011. 1:54 PM
ok its ovious, I'm not going to win anything in the game life challenge =/
SHIFT! says: Mar 7, 2011. 10:33 PM
Nice Job! Did you create the papercraft plans in pepakura?
zazenergy says: Mar 7, 2011. 12:05 PM
Model would definitely good great from afar. Good job!
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