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Making cheap encoder?
honkey:
--- Quote from: BobA on January 17, 2012, 01:18:57 am ---Usually a keyboard has a matrix setup of keys. You have to match the rows and columns to whatever key you want. There are alot of old articles on how to do it but I stress that these are really old and not the easiest way to go.
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All right... Is it easier to hack a gamepad? How would I do that?
RabidRabit:
Here ya' go.
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=84548.0
leapinlew:
Just your coin door? Like... just 1 or 2 inputs? How about hacking a mouse?
drventure:
+1 on hacking a mouse. Get a cheap, old one (I picked up several from a guy off Craigslist for 2$ each), if they're ball mice, all the better,
Open it up, the buttons are simple mini switches soldered to the internal board. just note the connections desolder the button and solder your own switches in.
If you have another mouse attached to the system, the coin switches will also act like mouse clicks.
Most of the time, that should be OK, but if not, you can use AUTOHOTKEY and some addonscripts to independently read specific mice and specific buttons, translate them to something else (say keypresses) and discard the button click.
Vigo:
Trying not to be that guy who pimps his wares on the forum, but I do sell a mean little encoder with wiring for cheap. Only $15 and you have something nice, compact and clean looking. Plus it will give you room to expand or add admin buttons.
Ok, now that I got that very shameless plug out of my system, I just wanted to add that if you haven't gotten a spinner for your machine and want one, you could get an old spinner, and do the mouse hack for dual purposes. Get both a spinner and coin door buttons going all in one hack. :cheers:
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