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rollerball:
well can try it like me and dont use a hard drive....dont see why you need to use a hard drive....mine works fine
psychopanda:

--- Quote from: rollerball on May 22, 2006, 11:34:59 pm ---well can try it like me and dont use a hard drive....dont see why you need to use a hard drive....mine works fine

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Oops, forgot you're not making a hard drive spinner. I already tore apart the hard drive innards, set it up and tested it for spinning. Works pretty good. Then I got busy and never got around to testing it with optic encoder wheel/mouse, etc.
tk_42_1:
This was such a inspiration.  I've been wanting to add a spinner and once I saw this I had to add my own.

I ended up using a hard drive motor and PVC.  The HD motor I was going to use fit perfectly inside a 1 1/4" PVC pipe, but I started to worry about getting a straight cut and wobble problems.  I then thought (while standing there in Home Depot) why don't I use a pipe coupler.  No cutting needed.  Also I don't need to buy a 5 foot piece of pipe when all I need is a few inches.  After trying all the different couplers (and getting strange looks from everyone down that isle) I found the 1 1/4 inch coupler with the screw end fit the best.  It wasn't totally snug but I thought it was close enough for this application.

Once I got the PVC Coupler home it needed a bunch of sanding to get rip of seems, bumps and other imperfections.  Then, I super glued it into place on the bottom of the HD motor.  Instead of trying to make a new hole in my CP, I decided to reuse the hole left by my 4-way joystick that I removed since I didn't use it after getting my 49-ways.  One problem though, the hole was bigger than I needed.  After trying shimming the hd motor from the bottom I found that using some washers on the top worked great to mount it in place.  It may not look the best but works great.

The spinner top is just a volume control knob from Radio Shack that I attached to a 1/4" spacer that fit over one of the case screws that fit into the top of th HD motor.

The mouse is just an el cheapo GE travel mouse I bought at Big Lots for $3.99.  I ended up having to remove the electroincs and flip them over and hot glue them on the base.  The mouse was not working fully the other way and this gave me a extra 1/32" to play with.  Even after doing this I still had a dead spot when I used the spinner.  To fix this I added a few pieces of masking tape to increase the thickness on the PVC.  Once I did this no more problems at all.  In the pix you will see black marker marks on the coupler.  I thought would fix my dead spot before I added the masking tape.

I still need to work on setting up all the games with the correct setting in MAME, but right out of the box without changing anything, I got the high score in Star Trek and Omega Race.
AE35:

AMAZING idea....very, very good!

However, I have just one question. I take it that the spinner will work for all games
that support something like mouse, but can I turn it off for games of my own choice?

What if I wanted Puzz Loop to NOT listen to the joystick, but only the spinner?
Possible?

Thanks!

Nicholas
leapinlew:

--- Quote from: AE35 on June 29, 2006, 12:47:11 pm ---
What if I wanted Puzz Loop to NOT listen to the joystick, but only the spinner?
Possible?

Thanks!

Nicholas


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Since you used Puzz Loop as an example.... Puzz Loop is setup using the mouse OR the joystick. The joystick is the default configuration. Once you go into it's service mode you change it to the spinner.
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