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| subzero23:
Just a precaution but I want to make sure I'm safe here, I'm an experienced solderer, and was thinking of making a playstation controller hack and wiring it to the buttons/joystick and then using a PS-to-USB converter from radio shack. Theoretically if my circuits/soldering is dead-on and everything is connected as it should, should I have any problems or anything to worry about? I've never had a bad experience but I've never had $1000 laptop to worry about either. |
| paigeoliver:
If you accidently get +5 and ground shorted out, then you will be in trouble. Try it in a playstation first, those are much cheaper, if it works there then you are fine. |
| subzero23:
Yeah assuming it works, which it probably will since I've tried on PS2 before and WILL test it on one, I should have nothing to worry about? |
| Gunstar Hero:
Well, it is a hack... and anything can happen. I guess you'll need to ask yourself... do I feel lucky? Well... do ya? :police: |
| paigeoliver:
I once made the mistake of trying to "test" my 49-way with SJC setup on my laptop after I have the joystick wired, but just had the button wires coming off the harness. It worked, I left it hooked up as I hooked up the buttons one by one. To make a long story short I burned the sucker up, as some voltage got grounded out by a loose wire. |
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