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Title: PS3 sixaxis hack complete!
Post by: HaRuMaN on September 07, 2008, 11:18:58 am: What a PITA! Took me ~6 hours to complete. :angry:

A lot of that time was trying different methods. I tried variations of the spiffyshoes solderless PS2 hack, but that turned out to not work very well. In the end, I used Ben Heck's method of removing the connector pins, and the connector itself, and soldering to the little pads left. I ended up having to use a very small guage stranded wire and zen-like concentration.

After all that, it works perfectly. Not sure if I'm going to offer these in my hacking service thread. I should be able to do them faster than 6 hours next time, but it'll still be pretty time-consuming. If I do offer them, I'd probably have to adjust my pricing to reflect the amount of time involved.
Title: Re: PS3 sixaxis hack complete!
Post by: somunny on September 07, 2008, 11:36:13 am: What the heck is that?! That is not what I sent you! ;)

:applaud: :applaud: :applaud:

Thanks, Haruman! Of course, I expected nothing less than complete success from the Yoda of controller hacking. ;D
Title: Re: PS3 sixaxis hack complete!
Post by: Hemi on September 08, 2008, 05:25:52 pm: Way to go, you'll have to forgive my cynical attitude from before.
Title: Re: PS3 sixaxis hack complete!
Post by: HaRuMaN on September 08, 2008, 05:41:56 pm: Quote from: Hemi on September 08, 2008, 05:25:52 pm
Way to go, you'll have to forgive my cynical attitude from before.

No problem... :)

At one point I did think that I had 'borked' it... but I was able to fix it and get it working.
Title: Re: PS3 sixaxis hack complete!
Post by: Dizzle on September 08, 2008, 08:05:04 pm: Wow. Nicely done. :applaud:

I hope you work for a company like Honeywell or somethin'... Gotta take advantage of that skillset. ;)
Title: Re: PS3 sixaxis hack complete!
Post by: somunny on September 08, 2008, 11:22:25 pm: Quote from: Hemi on September 08, 2008, 05:25:52 pm
Way to go, you'll have to forgive my cynical attitude from before.

Haruman has too much class to gloat so I'll be happy to do it for him:

In yo' face, sucka! :woot
Title: Re: PS3 sixaxis hack complete!
Post by: HaRuMaN on September 09, 2008, 07:25:04 am: Quote from: Dizzle on September 08, 2008, 08:05:04 pm
Wow. Nicely done. :applaud:

I hope you work for a company like Honeywell or somethin'... Gotta take advantage of that skillset. ;)

Huh?

I do work for Honeywell. ???
Title: Re: PS3 sixaxis hack complete!
Post by: massive88 on September 23, 2008, 03:02:33 pm: Where do you get the long white terminals like that from?

Frys selection is lacking, and Im not sure where else to check...
Title: Re: PS3 sixaxis hack complete!
Post by: HaRuMaN on September 23, 2008, 03:17:10 pm: Quote from: massive88 on September 23, 2008, 03:02:33 pm
Where do you get the long white terminals like that from?

Frys selection is lacking, and Im not sure where else to check...

That really is 2 twelve position terminals. I took one, cut it to size, and glued it to another one. You can buy them at Radio Shack, just look for 12 position euro terminal strip, or something like that.
Title: Re: PS3 sixaxis hack complete!
Post by: Ginsu Victim on September 23, 2008, 03:30:32 pm: GroovyGameGear has them as well.