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How do hack a Pole Position steering wheel to a USB mouse?
jerryjanis:
I don't know anything about the Pole Position board in particular, but here are some pictures of other boards that have been hacked. You may be able to trace the circuit board and identify what goes where, if it's basically the same as these boards.
http://www.arcadecontrols.org/yabbse/index.php?board=1;action=display;threadid=9837;start=msg73421#msg73421
Here's a picture of the 720 Degrees optics:
Maybe try PM'ing Acdelmor and see if he got his working.
Rocky:
unclet,
The Pole Position optic board looks like it has 4 connections. They would have to be X1, X2, Ground, Power (5v?)
Assuming that it runs on 5v, you can easily run wires from your USB mouse to the optic board. The hard part is figuring out what is what on the optic board.
As far as the USB mouse, they are easy to figure out.
Usually one side of the optics has 3 pins (not the side that sends the IR signal). On the ones I've hacked, the 2 outer pins are signal (e.g. X1, X2) and the middle is 5v. Find ground from one of the mouse switches and you are set. Try tracing the wires on the optic board and seeing what you can figure out on that end. Is the Pole Position Optic board labeled with anything?
Good luck,
Rocky
Chris:
The Pole Position optic boards are supposed to be electronically compatible with Happ trackball optics, so any mouse hack that works on a Happ trackball should work on a Pole Position wheel.
--Chris
eightbit:
Old post on how to do this- http://www.arcadecontrols.org/yabbse/index.php?board=1;action=display;threadid=6101;start=msg42109#msg42109
I never tried it, at the time I was not able/willing to try soldering it. I just scabbed a oscar mouse hack to it.
unclet:
Here is a better picture of my Pole Position PCB board: