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| AGarv:
Hrm... that button layout is actually amazing for Xbox games. The labels make it appear much tighter and organized that I would have thought. Nice! |
| Le Chuck:
Wish I would have seen this earlier. Those pots with limited deflection are harder to find than hens teeth. Awesome build and research so far. |
| BadMouth:
--- Quote from: AGarv on May 23, 2013, 10:01:10 pm ---Hrm... that button layout is actually amazing for Xbox games. The labels make it appear much tighter and organized that I would have thought. Nice! --- End quote --- Crossbreed900 came up with the layout. He is going to be tapping them with a pinky knuckle, so the tight grouping was important to allow him to move from one to the other quickly or press combinations. I like grouping the Japanese buttons so close that the nuts on the back just touch each other. That way the spacing between buttons is perfect, even if the button holes that were drilled aren't. :P I was waiting for someone to click on the thread, look at the pictures, and then blast me for the layout without realizing that it was being built for someone who can't move their fingers. I'm glad that didn't happen. --- Quote from: Le Chuck on May 24, 2013, 09:50:58 am ---Wish I would have seen this earlier. Those pots with limited deflection are harder to find than hens teeth. Awesome build and research so far. --- End quote --- Happ will sell you 5k or 100k ones for around $45 shipped. ;) I have ONE new 100k I'll ship to you for $20 if you'd need it. I bought it to see if the 100k Happ joysticks would work with the xbox hack (they do, but they cost $165 each). The second half of the plan was to take the numbers from it and order three more elsewhere to use in my dual analog triggerstick CP. The numbers only led to the manufacture's website where it's listed as "made to order". :banghead: The ones in the ALPS sticks aren't near the build quality. They are mostly plastic, including the shafts. The shafts aren't normal either. They are made to snap into yoke inside the ALPS joystick. |
| BadMouth:
I took the day off work today to get this wrapped up. JLF mounting bracket made one day last week. I'm surprised how solid it is. Enlarged and tapered holes so the heads of the machine screws would sit close to flush. 1/2" nylon spacers from Lowes Wiring done today. Not a lot of space to spare inside. I forgot that the triggers and xbox button don't share a common ground with the rest of the buttons, so ended up with a few extra terminals on my ground chain. The corners of the Dayton peel and stick vinyl I used lifted slightly on the edges where it is wrapped around the corners. I probably won't use it again for this style of CP that has t-molding around the edge. The surface of it seems pretty durable based on me scratching things up against it and not leaving marks. The final product. Not perfect, but not too bad and fully functional. I'm not sure I'm capable of making things good enough quality to sell. :P Jacks for bite switches on back wired to left and right triggers. I didn't do a headset jack because the plug turned out to be much more complicated than I expected. A headset could still be plugged into the controller pcb inside. I couldn't find the rubber feet I wanted today and those might not work for crossbreed's application anyway, so I installed some rubber grip strips instead. FIN! I didn't have access to an xbox360, so I played some games on Steam with it. The spring of the stick is so light it takes a little getting used to. In Tomb Raider, you have to shake the left stick back and forth to escape from someone's grip. I had a hard time doing this without worrying about banging the stick against it's limits and damaging the little ALPS joystick. I imagine if I played with it long enough, I'd adjust my style. All the controls work as they should though and I was able to play the few games that I tried. Fuel actually played pretty well with it since there is no throttle finesse required (triggers have been converted to digital). So, it's boxed up and will be shipped tomorrow. I hope it works well for him. |
| Le Chuck:
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