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smallest joystick/buttons available?
ids:
was thinking of those consoles, but I've never heard of anyone trying to emulate it.
I'll run over to the surplus store asap, maybe buy up a few, dont think they were expensive by any measure.
ids:
Crappy cell phone pics attached.
The keypads are without any electronics, so unless you have something for them to trigger, they are useless. Sorry.
The dark pad there is the kind of thing that would normally go under such keypads, but alignment of buttons is very off, size is off, etc. You could take that dark pad and make an overlay tho - its maybe 2"x3" with a 5x8 grid of buttons. Only $1.50 i think...tempted to get a few just for kicks.
The last item caught my eye, might be a nice way to add vol. control
gryhnd:
--- Quote from: tony.silveira on May 12, 2010, 07:29:20 pm ---please do, i would appreciate it!
i never thought of a cell phone keypad. i could potentially hack it and it would be very small, exactly what i'd be looking for.
as for the need, i'd like to add a small keypad for console emu's that have them, atari 5200/jaguar, intellivision, colecovision, etc.
any info you could get is appreciated!
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Withering thread, but today I happened to see a Lucent phone on Craigslist and it made me think of this. I bet an old touch tone phone keypad could be easily hacked to work with an iPac or somesuch, and it's designed to be undermounted (granted not under 3/4" MDF...).
Franco B:
Am I being dumb here or could you not just use a [USB number pad?]
tony.silveira:
old phone, of course! i have an old beast like that lying around.
i have looked into a usb keypad also. the thing is, i have yet to find one that would be easily under panel mounted without a lot of DIY hackery. also, usb keypads are 19 keys, looking to add just add the 12 that are used on the consoles that have them. at last count, here are the systems i have on my cab that use them:
5200
jaguar
astrocade
colecovision
arcadia