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| GaryMcT:
Do hardware shops typically sell premade jigs? In particular, a jig like Bender's for routing rectangles of various sizes. Google has found nothing good for me for this so far. :) |
| GaryMcT:
--- Quote from: Bender on August 08, 2009, 11:05:51 pm ---I made a jig for cutting squares and rectangle templates it looks like this just 4 strips of wood you just slide them to the desired shape and size then you can either screw, glue, doublesided tape, or clamp them down I like doing the hole after to make sure it's centered I take the metal plate off the joystick and use to trace and after the area is routed out, I screw it in THEN mark the center and drill it --- End quote --- How are the pieces of wood connected to each other? I might have to try to make one of these. |
| GaryMcT:
I'm a bit surprised to find that the original Defender control panel feels like crap now. I don't know how I was so stuck on leaf-switch buttons. . very very hard to use, and the joystick feels terrible, even though it has a new rebuild kit. Doesn't help that I'm used to to the controls, but. . is still surprising. I think with the U360 being taller, I actually wouldn't want the reverse button to be as close as it is on the Defender control panel. I'll probably move the thumb buttons as close to the joystick as I can and adjust the other 6 buttons accordingly on my next prototype. :) |
| GaryMcT:
I'm tring to avoid Frankenstein-ing my control panel, but it seems like the best thing I can come up with to support Defender without making Neo Geo feel terrible is to put a dedicated reverse button above and to the left of the player 1 thumb button. I'll draw it up later. . maybe if I make that button the same color as the control panel overlay, it might not look too bad. |
| GaryMcT:
I did a very very ugly thing that I'm not proud of, but it works really well. Ugh. Added another button specifically for Defender/Stargate right by the player 1 stick. Works really well, looks terrible! I may have to keep it, but try to hid it as much as possible (black on black). |
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