The NEW Build Your Own Arcade Controls
Main => Project Announcements => Topic started by: Yenome on March 20, 2012, 06:34:01 am
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This is the project log for my cheap fight stick take 3. I had made a post before bout the second one i had done. and while fun i had messed up in the soldering part and had to do a quick fix to get it to working condition I'm taking more time and better planning with this one. Going along with a diff thread i decided to revisit a curved layout they say it feels better for your hands leading to more game time. so going off that meet the donor for the PCB whats better than this.
(http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=103207.0;attach=181363;image)
removed PCB
(http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=103207.0;attach=181365;image)
after taking my Girlfriend nail file to it i got the contacts all cleaned up nicely for some solder. shh don't tell my girlfriend i used her nail file.
(http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=103207.0;attach=181367;image)
After this i decided on my layout. from reading a diff thread i ended up using the Sega layout with moving the 4Th button on the bottom row down a Lil and leaving off the 4Th button on the top row. i also placed the joystick farther off to the left as i had room and it just felt better when i laid my left hand down on the box.
(http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=103207.0;attach=181371;image)
(http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=103207.0;attach=181369;image)
(http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=103207.0;attach=181361;image)
I used a simple program to fig out the matrix for this keyboard. and went with the default for Mame setup so i don't have to worry bout setting most games and can use them right of the back save for a few that i do play with a diff setup. based off my matrix i would need at least 20 connections for my hack. 8 ground and 12 active. from my second cheap stick hack i learned that you can daisy chain just bout anything that matches up. so when you have a common ground for two buttons you can chain them together. say Q and F both use ground 3. i can solder a wire to 3 on the PCB connect it to the ground for Q then run a wire from W to the ground for F. thus both will be connected to ground. but alas most you knew this and are ::) at this info. I made 20 connector wires using cat5 cable that i cut to 16in length and desheathed and untwisted.
(http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=103207.0;attach=181373;image)
The nice thing bout the keyboard i used is it had a nice long cord on it already, but when i opened it up they had like an entire extra foot inside the thing as well. which mean in a pinch i can use this PCB for my cab when i get to working on it. so the PCB is ready for the solder and i still need to make like 7 connector wires. but it got late and i still wanted to post this before sleep time. so More to come tomorrow. any questions feel free to ask I'm an easy man.
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I made my first fighting stick out of a tupperware container. Worked pretty well actually until I accidentally smashed it to bits one day after losing a match :lol