Making an arcade stick Tutorial PART 9

[Stillvip187]

do you have or know of any way to do this with a ps2 remote

[DSEemployee]

@Stillvip187 Should be the same concept Stillvip187. Even easier I suspect

[ProvokedCashew]

I have a problem. I have everything wired properly and I used 470ohm resisters like you stated in another of your videos. I'm getting phantom directional presses and an error keeps popping up about shutting down the Xbox. Did I fry my resistors, or is there something else I'm missing? Thanks.

[laffytaffycrew]

was the tutorial ever completed?

i love the videos, you really seem to know what your talking about but wheres the end?

[SouldierInChrist]

Where did you solder the wires from the dpad to?

[comicfreak11]

tht switch at 1:08 are those the same ones they sell at radio shack

[comicfreak11]

he nice tutorials were part 10

[coalb389]

Do you need the triggers.

[Quekil830]

im lost on how to do the triggers

[SamuraiMotoko]

you stop doing the tutorial?

[mitocayoyo]

and where´s PART 10?? I NEEDD HELP WITH THE TRIGGERS

[spaxed101]

Having big problems here. Essentially The guide I'm reading say (If top to bottom is RT2-RT1-RT3) RT1--->Resistor--> RT3 And RT1---->Button---->RT2. However when I wire like that the trigger seems to only send a signal when I release the button and send a constant signal when I'm not pushing (aka the button turns it off). This video, to me, looks like RT1-->Resistor-->Button--->RT3 and RT2 isn't used at all. Please anyone reading could I have some feedback on my problem! Thanks!

[dmh79]

Where is part 10? :-(

[nourprog]

nice video. i love it. but i still not finding the end. it stop at part 9 !!!! why !!! please show me the result step by step after part 9. Thanks for this nice video

[evilhiryu]

I do not understand is the resistance.

connect the points of welding and work well without resistance

[kuru2k9]

I think what he means is, you need a "resistor", in order to balance out the total voltage value on the pcb. This way, it will not die out over time and it will last longer.

I assume that is what he is saying in the video :).

[Alansr10]

you lucky those xbox controllers are easy to soder. ps3 are a bitch

[GRAFFMASTERSPRAY]

did u solder the two purple wires from the bottom

[trbosm]

man,please tell me what the switches do?

[GRAFFMASTERSPRAY]

can u tell me me wen u find out q=wat they are for

[dkukov]

These are really usefull tuts there. Are you going to up more videos, or are you having free time issues?

[citiofbrass]

ok i odnt believe he mentiioned anything about the common ground. where is it on the controller?

[Huizar]

I have a CG controller... after wiring/soldering the signal on each button, were does the ground come from? the negative terminal of the battery? Plz help

[Setzer]

@Huizar Hey did you ever figure out the ground? I'm currently working on this right now. I'm assuming that you connect it to the common ground and then daisy chain it to each button? Also what's the deal with the triggers and the normally open/normally closed switch? I still have no idea how to do that bit.

[jonosauras]

ok so i understand you wire those to the connections on my buttons/stick. After that is it just a matter of wiring all the grounds on my switchs together and soldering them to the negative terminal, would that work?

[way2stronglpt]

yeah if you have a common ground controller that'll work, if you have a controller with one of the older circuit boards you have to wire each ground terminal to the corresponding ground terminal on the controller.

[Djinn408]

Thanks for the vids. I m planning on getting my stick together some time this week. Wheres part 10 at? i was wondering what to do in terms of the bumper buttons if you where to use them?

[GRAFFMASTERSPRAY]

can u tell me wen u find out about the rb n lb

[dustinronald]

when he said normally close button i was confused but just to let every1 know a sanwa obsf button works fine for this... ps DSE your vids are amazing, i learned so much from them thanks

[jonosauras]

sweet ive ordered obsf-30's then saw these tutorials and were like oh crap, they arent gonna work :p glad to hear they do :D

[way2stronglpt]

great vids man, very helpful. Please keep them coming when you have the time.

Quick question- Do you have a way to hook up the sync button?

[way2stronglpt]

actually, after opening a controller up and looking at it, it looks like you can de-solder the button and run wires like all the other ones

[philhuddy]

what do i do if I don't have those kinda microswitches? I just have the sanwa screw in buttons, and not sure how to make wire up the resistor on it.

[KParayno]

Hey, i have been following your videos and and totally grateful for the tips, so i think this is the video where i got lost and was wondering exactly what was going on. Is there away you can explain the trigger procedure another way? I'm sorta lost. Well that, and I wanted to know the significance of that beeping device last vid. Thanks so much for you time. I'm very grateful and looking forward for the next vid. =]

[way2stronglpt]

In the last vid he was using a multimeter in continuity mode to test which terminal was the ground. The beeping indicated that the trigger terminal is electrically connected the the negative (ground) spring on the bottom of the controller.

[rvaliao]

i was wondering if your making a stick, do you have to desolder the triggers? or can i just solder on to the the solder where the triggers are?

[DSEemployee]

um... dont do that cos the if you out a resister across the two points it may work in parallel and i'm not sure what might happen

[Zigzug69]

This may be a stupid question, but does a standard arcade button (Sanwa/Seimitsu) function as the "normally closed switch" you mention as a requirement for the triggers to function properly?? Common-sense, to me, says that it is (button unpressed is closed, pressed opens the switch), but I just want to be clear... Thanks for the great tutorials, btw!!

[DSEemployee]

normally open is like a gate that is open. thats what most switches are by default. normally closed is like a closed gate, allowing current to follow.

[trueshinchan]

@Zigzug69 I don't know if you still want to know but sanwa buttons are designed to have two inputs that is either open or closed (0 or 1), open being no contact, closed being contact.

[Swartzer]

Hey, first of all thank you for these vids! They've been a great help. My question is, for connecting the commons. I have a wired controller apart and ready to be soldered, its just that Ive noticed, when i take a wire and make contact on a button it registers, but if i make contact from the 'signal' of the 'A' button to the common of the 'B' button nothing registers, is there a specific location where you should be soldering the connection for the 'daisy chain'?

[DSEemployee]

with the wired controller you are going to have to the two button terminals. Unfortunately this tutorial is for the CG wireless controller.

It will work fine, just more wires to run is all.

[izkariot]

Hmm, I thought that you didn't need resistors if you're using the triggers. Thanks the for info!

[DSEemployee]

its needs some sort of resistance change.

[tohst]

if you take off the trigger (or rather the potentiometer that is attached to the trigger, and don't put a resistor between those points WEIRDDDDDD stuff will happen. (i didn't realize this hacking my first pcb and when i took RT off A and B buttons just stopped working). so if you leave them on the board and don't attach buttons to them, you'll be fine (unless they move around or something)

[izkariot]

Oh, I planned on using triggers as buttons on my stick. I am somewhat misinformed, as I read somewhere that you can just remove the triggers completely and then solder onto the 2 of the points without resistors, and they'll function like digital buttons. Now I gotta get me some resistors.