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PL1:

--- Quote from: MaxRod on January 11, 2017, 07:45:17 am ---looks like the kade site has been hacked. Has lots of links to ms, linkedin and other phishing logins.

whoever runs the site: If you want to switch hosts, let me know.

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I PM'd Kevin about it several hours ago and he replied, "The host is having issues with all sites. I'll bug them again."

Scott

MaxRod:

--- Quote from: PL1 on January 10, 2017, 08:23:03 pm ---
--- Quote from: MaxRod on January 10, 2017, 12:16:01 pm ---Using the extended mode the 2nd player controls go crazy once you hit any of the following buttons first 1p start, 1p coin, 2p start, 2p coin and exit. Maybe i wired it up wrong?

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In Loader there is a keyboard utility.

Press P1 Joystick Up, then P1 Joystick Down, then P1 Start -- the utility should register three keystrokes in the "Key (Code)" column:
- Up (38)
- Down (40)
- 1 (49)

When you test the start/coin/exit functons this way, what is the keyboard utility registering?

Can you be more specific about what P2 controls are doing? (additional keystrokes? dropped keystrokes?)

Scott

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there was a thread on the kade forums where someone suffers from the same bug and explained it a bit better. it seems that if you hit any of what the kade team calls the utility buttons then p2 buttons 5 and 6 become the last utility button you pressed.

I got word that a bag with an unspecified amount of minimus was just shipped to me so im going to extend an offer to folks that contribute to kade. I have approximately 30 kade units for sale at 10 a piece. Will give an additional discount for anyone on the official kade team.

PL1:

--- Quote from: MaxRod on January 11, 2017, 07:45:17 am ---looks like the kade site has been hacked.

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Good news! The KADE Forums are back up. ;D

--- Quote from: MaxRod on January 12, 2017, 09:34:22 am ---there was a thread on the kade forums where someone suffers from the same bug and explained it a bit better. it seems that if you hit any of what the kade team calls the utility buttons then p2 buttons 5 and 6 become the last utility button you pressed.

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Oops! I forgot that dwill reported that bug here over a year ago. (No fix yet. :( )

Since a bug-fix probably isn't coming any time soon, here are two approaches that you may want to consider:

1.) Use a second Minimus -- either one Minimus for the player buttons/joysticks and another for the admin buttons or connect all of P1's buttons/joystick to one Minimus and all of P2's buttons/joystick to the other and split the admin buttons as you see fit.

2.) If you don't want to use a second Minimus and you want your control panel to look the same (i.e. dedicated admin buttons instead of an "HWB" shift button) try option #2 here.

--- Quote from: PL1 ---2. Dedicated admin buttons with diodes
Uses diodes to block ground from connecting when other buttons are pressed.

This method allows one physical button press to electrically connect two inputs to ground.

Potential downside -- when HWB is pressed, any buttons/joystick directions that are pressed will output the related shifted function which may accidently trigger an undesired function. :(

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Scott
EDIT: Updated links to "kadevice.net".

MaxRod:
the HWB thing seems annoying to me although wiring up the extended mode stuff wrecked my brain for a few hours. Sharpfork wanted a shipment of kades so i reminded him of them and sent him the bug. If he doesn't fix it, I'll get a fellow TXer to look at it when time permits.

Don't want this to sound like a BST thread but i parted with a number of AVRs this weekend. Still have a few more and have a small shipment coming my way in the next few days.

Helder:
Hi guys, I've recently stumbled onto the Kade project and see alot of people having issues with getting things to work on other boards besides the Minimus but the KADE team supports the ATMega32u2 so it should support the ATMega32u4 (I have alot of these chips and build my own controller board around it).

These chips can be easily programmed with the hex if use a a USBasp programmer and AVRDude which is bundled with the KADE miniConsole software but you need access to the ISP pins to use the programmer but most of these boards don't come with the pins broken out. I successfully programmed my controller board with the ATMega32u4 and loaded the DFU bootloader then used the miniConsole to program it and it worked fine but the pinout is definitely wrong but it worked.

The Kade Loader software would not recognize the board because it only has support for the 2 MCUs on their list (needs to be fixed so it works with the ATMega32u4). Basically this post is to say that it can be done with modern MCUs that are available today and the ATMega32u4 has more pins and memory and can be useful to open this up for more projects or features.

I'm willing to design a board with this MCU if someone on the software side(not my forte) fixes the KADE Loader to recognize the ATMega32u4. The good thing about a factory loose ATMega32u4 is that the DFU is already programmed into it so it will work right out of the box but I can also preprogram the boards with whatever hex they desire.

Let me know what you guys think and who can help with the software fix for this MCU.

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