Build Your Own Arcade Controls Forum
Main => Main Forum => Topic started by: SeaMonkey on October 21, 2004, 12:02:37 am
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What is really needed to MAKE, from SCRATCH, a positional gun for "Space Gun", "Operation Wolf" or "T2" ?
Let's bottom line this. Bare minimum.
A squirtgun (weighted with putty, and painted black)
two 5k pots, one button, one micro-switch for the trigger, and what else?
Is there a circuit board I need a schematic for? What is the bare minimum it takes to get Windows to see an analog joystick?
I mean, I am not going to use the reciever from my Tek 9 just to make it look cool, I just want to know what my options are, other than play "screw your neighbor" on eBay.
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You can take a typical pc analog joystick appart - and use the pots and encoder.
You will need to fashion some sorta way to turn the pots... either using gears, or direct drive d-pot system. direct drive can result in low resolution and possible problems with windows registering it... which is why gears work best.
Take a peek at the super hangon controller here for examples:
http://www.xiaou2.homestead.com/arcade.html
May be better to carve your gun from wood... or hack a better toy gun. I think a squirt gun's quality is too low and will fall appart too easily. The thing should be able to widthstand (accidental?!) abusive play.
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You can take a typical pc analog joystick appart - and use the pots and encoder.
Or interface the 5k pots & switches with an AKI: http://dave.bit2000.com/
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May be better to carve your gun from wood... or hack a better toy gun. I think a squirt gun's quality is too low and will fall appart too easily. The thing should be able to widthstand (accidental?!) abusive play.
Yeah, I was looking online, and there is a place called the collector's armory that has pretty realistic mock-ups. I would have to pick one that was a metal build as the full resin models are probably one piece.
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But remember... you can get a T2 gun for around 20 bucks on ebay... pretty often.
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$20 really? I just saw a pair with the panel, and some boards go for 80+ but maybe I will keep my eyes open longer.
Thanks for the tip. That would be a better option, if for no other reason, than it has the built-in feedback.
Although....the collector's armory has a sweet looking Thompson SMG
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You can take a typical pc analog joystick appart - and use the pots and encoder.
You will need to fashion some sorta way to turn the pots... either using gears, or direct drive d-pot system.
Wow, fantastic work.
Where do you get your gears?
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You can take a typical pc analog joystick appart - and use the pots and encoder.
Or interface the 5k pots & switches with an AKI: http://dave.bit2000.com/
cant you plug the pots directly into a gameport? i thought that it had support for analog axes..
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found the gears at a local hobby shop. you may try a surplus place as well.
if you are good, you could wire up pots to a gameport... but thats a little scary for me. Also, I prefer using usb hacks now.
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You can take a typical pc analog joystick appart - and use the pots and encoder.
Or interface the 5k pots & switches with an AKI: http://dave.bit2000.com/
Minwah, if I read your site correctly, I could use that board to control two T2 style positional guns, with buttons, correct?