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Main => Main Forum => Topic started by: djlins on February 17, 2012, 02:13:52 pm
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Hiya, I'm looking for the smallest microswitch buttons around for a minicade.
I have found these ones:
http://www.gremlinsolutions.co.uk/products/miniroundbutton.htm (http://www.gremlinsolutions.co.uk/products/miniroundbutton.htm)
but was wondering if anyone knows of any others?
Cheers,
DJLins.
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I was looking at those for my Mini arcade but I thought they would be to small for what I was looking for. You could try tactical switches. They don't have that smooth pressing feel but they can get pretty small you can try Digikey.
http://search.digikey.com/us/en/cat/switches/pushbutton/1114209 (http://search.digikey.com/us/en/cat/switches/pushbutton/1114209)
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Hiya, I'm looking for the smallest microswitch buttons around for a minicade.
I have found these ones:
http://www.gremlinsolutions.co.uk/products/miniroundbutton.htm (http://www.gremlinsolutions.co.uk/products/miniroundbutton.htm)
but was wondering if anyone knows of any others?
Cheers,
DJLins.
I have some of those that I have used for reset buttons but they have lousy feel and imprecise action if used as player buttons.
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If you want to use them for action buttons, and want them to "kinda" look like normal arcade buttons I would use
http://www.gremlinsolutions.co.uk/products/minimomentarypushbuttons.htm (http://www.gremlinsolutions.co.uk/products/minimomentarypushbuttons.htm)
They sill arnt great but more than usable
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Even most of the plastic "Game in a joystick" deals use buttons that are almost full sized arcade buttons. You can get a joystick and 2 full size buttons on roughly 5" of real estate.