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Main => Main Forum => Topic started by: phudog on February 06, 2006, 03:56:29 pm
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Hey I was wondering if you guys could share what method u guys used to hook the keywiz to your buttons/joysticks. I was thinking an IDE cable but the wires are really thin. I tried some older IDE cables that had thicker wires but they wouldn't fit the pin set. Any help would be appreciated.
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i've got a bag full of ide cables and floppy cables, and found that some only have a single tiny wire inside, while others have like 5 of the same wire.
i ended up taking a single ide cable apart and using only as many wires as i needed by splitting it up into groupings and sticking them into their own ide plugs. i used 12 wires for each of my gpwiz's, 40 for my minipac, and another 10 for the second plug on my minipac. i had plenty to spare too. oh, and it was tedious to split them apart and strip them and crimp them into molex plugs, but it only took a couple hours and now it works perfectly, cept my trackball needs it's axis switched.
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Wow, a perfect time to sell my product :D
Im making a board that does exactly what you want. You use an IDE cable to connect the encoder to a little board I make and it has terminal strips along the thing so that you can use it with your own wires. I think I have a link in my signature.
They're going for 10 bucks a piece, the order was already placed for the PCB's and I can only make 15 up front so it goes by who pre-orders first. If youre interested shoot me a message :)
Otherwise, if you want to manually cut an IDE cable it would work just fine. What I did (the whole reason I thought of making this board) was cut off the last header of the cable, then I seperated each wire. I then laid the wire along my index finger and used an X-acto knife to cut along the wire... lotta work but its cheaper than spending the 10 bucks ;)
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Cholin - Your board doesn't do what he wants (well, not really) - He has the KeyWiz Eco Solder, not no-solder version. The only thing he could do with your board is lop off the IDE header and solder the cable wires to his KeyWiz.
Unfortunately, I'm not sure what type of wires would work best, so I can't help the original poster.