Woody - Arcade Stick [Done]

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emphatic:
Looking very nice so far. :cheers:

skr:
Very nice look indeed - the Osmo Oil is awesome, we have it on our dining table for 5 years now and despite the daily (ab)use it still looks great.

edekoning:

--- Quote from: emphatic on October 20, 2025, 01:35:33 pm ---Looking very nice so far. :cheers:

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Thanks!

--- Quote from: skr on October 20, 2025, 03:57:28 pm ---Very nice look indeed - the Osmo Oil is awesome, we have it on our dining table for 5 years now and despite the daily (ab)use it still looks great.

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Yeah its great stuff, give a very nice looking and feeling finish. Only downside is that its somewhat expensive, with the smallest amount you can buy being 0.5 liter, but according to their calculator I only needed 0.02 liter...

edekoning:
The GP2040-CE V5.6E - Fight Board I am using supports a variety of tiny OLED screens. These can be used for joystick/button testing purposes, and checking what settings are currently active, e.g.: SOCD mode, turbo mode, input mode (PS3, PS4, NSW, PC, etc). These are dirt cheap, and I picked up a 128x64 pixels 1,3 Inch one for 6 bucks. I intend to mount this underneath, visible through the plexiglass. The idea being that if I ever get confused on why something is not working, like maybe I did not press the correct key combo to go into Nintendo Switch mode, I can quickly check what input its in by looking at the bottom.

Anyway, time to mount the OLED and fight board using some PCB standoffs. I used M3 10mm ones for the fightboard and M2,5 20mm ones for the OLED. Drilling 2.5 and 2.0 mm holes respectively where I then just 'screw' the standoffs into. The OLED in particular has tiny holes, and there was no real room for error during drilling. So I practiced on a price of spare wood first, to make sure my measurements of the hole distances were accurate.

I also noticed that the joystick would not fit. Its base plate would, but I overlooked the fact that the joystick extended slightly beyond that base plate in two spots. A chisel took care of that problem.

edekoning:
I also got the plexiglass for the back. Really tight fit ;D Debated quite a while on how to drill the mounting holes for the plexiglass, but in the end settled on:
- put plexiglass on the wood
- drill 3mm hole through the plexiglass, and ever so slightly into the wood
- drill 2mm hole through the plexiglasshole into the wood
- take the plexiglass off the wood, and countersink the holes <- forgot to take a picture of this part
- realize you bought 3mm screws instead of 2.5mm ones :blank:

Next up is installing all controls and starting wiring them up.
Still had plenty of wire of quick disconnects left from my X-Men build 8)
Got the joystick compartment pretty much done.

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