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ahofle:
Nice.  Even if you don't have serial cables lying around, they are dirt cheap at monoprice:
monoprice serial cable link
Kaytrim:

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--- Quote from: Kaytrim on April 30, 2007, 03:44:59 pm ---Are the Max and Eco versions still going to be avaliable?

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Yes.  The MAX version will remain unchanged, but this new board design will spawn a couple of other styles that we'll be offering soon.  For instance, a solder ECO that will be much easier to solder than the current Eco.  Even though the larger board will increase the Eco price by about a dollar, it will be worth ten times that in ease of use.  The Eco's will also become repairable as CPU sockets will be standard with this style.

The future of the smaller Eco board is unknown at this time, but the new Eco design is likely to supersede them unless there are objections from our OEMs.

RandyT


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Sounds like you are going to offer a GPWiz QD as well.  ;)  I mean it only stands to reason.   You use the same base board for both the KeyWiz and GPWiz for the Max and Eco version of those encoders. 

To be honest though I don't see the need for all the duplication of contacts on the player one and two sides.  I don't see the need for 8 action buttons though there may be some games that I am not aware of.  After a quick check I see a total of only about 18 contacts that are absolutely necessary for each player. However you have put much more time in thought on this then I certainly have.  For example DB25 cables (printer) are much more easier to obtain that any other of this type of connector.

TTFN :cheers:
Kaytrim
Buddabing:

--- Quote from: Kaytrim on April 30, 2007, 04:52:09 pm ---
To be honest though I don't see the need for all the duplication of contacts on the player one and two sides.  I don't see the need for 8 action buttons though there may be some games that I am not aware of. 


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Rotatable or modular panels.
bfauska:
That looks like a great product.  I did something similar with my GPwiz based desktop CPs.  I added a DB15 connector so that I could run one panel daisy chained to the other.  With this product half the work would have been done for me.  It works great with a pair of controllers hooked up this way.  So that's another potential use for it.
KenToad:
The modular panels on my bartop are swappable via two DB25 connectors that I have wired to two GPWiz49's.  Definitely another great idea, Randy. 
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