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Installed my Aimtrak into act labs gun. [Video Added]
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syph007:
Hey guys.  My aimtraks were delayed in customs.. box was open and badly repackaged, all contents loose in shipping envelope which sucks, but nothing seems damaged.

Everything in the package looks as expected except, my only initial beef is that the included 4 pin connector only has 2 wires attached.  I had planned on connecting both buttons on my guns, so I had to go ahead and add the other 2 connections myself, with pins i luckily had.

Pics 3 and 4 show the solder points I used.  Only mod I had to do was cut the legs from the trigger switch, isolating it from the rest of the board.  It has some weird shared ground system that was giving me grief.. but anyway thats all i did to the board besides cutting it down a tad.

I had a very short usb cable (white) I used to connect the sensor board to the longer supplied usb cable.  Worked out great since the plug acts as a cable stop.

I wasnt sure how I wanted to permanently mount the pcb so I just made some temporary cardboard springs to hold it in place, and screwed it all back together to test.
syph007:
Here's what it looks like all back together, and with me giving it a test in House of the Dead.   Seems ok, but something isnt quite right, I think I didnt put the sensor far enough forward in the gun, and I should not have left the original gun lens in.. will open and retry.
Ginsu Victim:
Yeah, the instructions say to remove that lens. Nice work, though.
syph007:
Yup, retried with the lens removed and the pcb moved more forward.  Its better but still flaky.  I upped my usb polling to 500 to make sure that wasnt an issue.  Really hard to calibrate, i find it makes me retry many times and the 3rd time the arrow at the bottom is 1/3 the witdh of the screen from the left.. not centered if its supposed to be.  I had fun using it as a mouse in windows.  HotD played better this time but really hard to hit anything in the corners and sometimes when i move to the corner it would cause the cursor to jump accross the screen back to teh center area.

I'll have to keep fiddling.
syph007:
Ok for sure weird in windows games.  Im playing house of the dead 1 for windows.  If i calibrate the gun perfectly at windows desktop, then launch the game , the guns range of motion is a small rectangle of the upper left of my screen.  I guess due to the resolution change?  Well I try to recalibrate but it makes me do it many times before it accepts one.  Then this is what I notice while playing.. the rate of motion of the cursor is non linear.  The speed is about 1:1 with my motion near screen center, but when i move to the outer 25% of the screen, the cursor moved about twice the distance compared to what Ive moved the gun.

Haven't tried in MAME yet, might work better there, will try area 51 next.
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