Build Your Own Arcade Controls Forum
Main => Main Forum => Topic started by: taiki on March 26, 2005, 04:19:13 pm
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A few months ago I gutted a beatmania control panel and justnow have gotten around to trying a few things to get it to work as a playstation controller. The buttons are simple enough, as they're just simple switches. The turntable however, is an optical spinner, and I need something that'll take the input from this optical spinner and turn it into "turn x switch on" or "turn Y switch on". in this case, the up and down switch on the digital part of a playstation control pad. Anyone know of any pre-built circuits that'll do it? or any other ideas?
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Your best bet is to gut a PlayStation Beatmania controller. The official ones by Konami and ASCII use an optical spinner too. Be weary of the cheap third party controllers as they may have choosen a cheapish way to implement the turntable. Since you gonna butcher the controller I'd suggest getting one on eBay :)
Btw, do you have a working arcade optical sensor for your arcade turntable? If you are not using it I would love to make you an offer as mine got busted during shipping :(
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i have two spare optical sensors. If I don't fry them out during the course of modding, sure!
Yeah, a cheap 3rd party one isn't the way to go. Last night I tried hacking a rave discman, and that didn't turn out well.
Atleast though, Now I have some idea what the pin out is on the optical sensors.
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I wouldn't try to hook the optical encoders up to the circuit in the controller, I'd hook up the circuit's optical encoder to the turntable. But that's just me.
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Problem is that they're two vastly different kinds of encoders, physically.
but the theory is is that they work on the same principal
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well, I mean, you might be able to find a way to mount it to the shaft, swapping whole encoder for whole encoder, not just part. It seems the easiest way to do it to me.