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| Bender:
--- Quote from: GaryMcT on August 16, 2009, 01:25:20 pm ---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. :) --- End quote --- I've built a more complicated one since, but originally it was simply 4 pieces of wood wide enough for the router to run on. Since I use them for making templates I'd just screw them down to the template piece countersinking the screws so the router wouldn't hit them super simple --- Quote from: GaryMcT on August 16, 2009, 04:01:33 pm ---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. :) --- End quote --- I was surprised too, how much I've come to really like the feel of the U360's |
| GaryMcT:
Ugh. . I'm so torn. I really don't like it when I see Frankenstein control panels, and mine is starting to look like one!!! Someone talk some sense into me. :) |
| Bender:
you already have a dedicated Defender panel right? you don't have to make one panel to play every game, that was the whole point to multiple panels, no? "friends don't let friends build frakenpanels" ;) clean and simple plays better and feels better IMHO |
| GaryMcT:
Haha! True. I do have a dedicated Defender panel. It feels like crap now though, and I don't want to change a thing on it (I'm sentimental that way, and my collector friend would whoop ---my bottom---.) Oooh, just had a thought. What if I moved the thumb button up "a button" and used the top row of for the right three for the neo geo layout? That would make it so that the thumb and defender button are roughly in the same place and can serve double-duty: Hmmmm. . . . . |
| GaryMcT:
Could leave it like it is and move the joystick lower so that it is in the right place relative to the thumb button? Or I could just make a Stargate panel with a shortened U360 stick (is that even possible? Haven't looked at it yet to see what it would take to shorten it) so that it is laid out just like Stargate. :) |
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