new USB game compatible mapable switchbox

[Bizman]

Where I can find instructions to do it by myself?

Basically, just take any USB game controller and a suitable box. Tear the controller apart, put the innards into the box, drill holes where needed and voilą! You may want to change the microbuttons to those with a nut like Valu68 uses for durability and easy install.

[indy007]

XBOX 360 wired controllers. 12 buttons, 2 analog sticks, 2 analog sliders. Plugs straight into your Windows 7 PC's USB port and works first try.

It's a good, cheap base to experiment with.

[dkff49]

XBOX 360 wired controllers. 12 buttons, 2 analog sticks, 2 analog sliders. Plugs straight into your Windows 7 PC's USB port and works first try.

It's a good, cheap base to experiment with.

Yea 12 buttons but if you use dpdt switches you can actually make it 16 more buttons.

AH reads the directional pad as the forward/back/right/left and will allow you to use them om combination with each other as a seperate button/control.

[Flench]

Can I see the inside ?

[Pollock]

Pollock

Where are these DirectX boards? The only thing I have seen are the Bodnar boards and it is really spotty IF the guy will answer emails or let you know if your shipment is on the way from what I have been told.

http://www.leobodnar.com/

[Reschke]

Really was hoping that you were talking about a different supplier since Bodnar is spotty at best with shiipping and communication about orders.

[Pollock]

Really was hoping that you were talking about a different supplier since Bodnar is spotty at best with shiipping and communication about orders.

I guess I lucked out then. I purchased one around 2 years ago relatively easy took around 2 weeks overall.

[dkff49]

Can I see the inside ?

I dont know if you want to. I know how many wires there in the few I have built and it looks like spaghetti. I even used several zipties to try and keep things as neat and tidy as possible.

I do have a few pics of some of my wiring nit in box yet. That is if you were referring to my post.

[Pollock]

I think it was more in a reply to Leo Bodnar and my doings business with him.  I really like the finished look of 68valu controls too.

[Flench]

I do have a few pics of some of my wiring nit in box yet. That is if you were referring to my post.

That would be cool . I'm pretty good at stuff like that from working on my RC stuff . I like to try and buiild something like that myself .

[guncrasher]

take joystick apart and the wires going to the buttons well connect them to the new pushbuttons.  save everything except for the joystick "outer shell". 


semp

[dkff49]

It's not quite tha easy semp when many of the buttons are pcb mounted. In those cases you need to be somewhat practiced in the art of soldering to a circuit board.

If you have never done it before then it would be wise to buy a cheap board at radio shack to practice on.

[Flench]

Yeah dkff49 , Took me a while to learn how to solder .

[guncrasher]

it was just a simplified version of it dk . I know it's a bit more complicated than that.  but it's not as hard as anyone can think.  of course patience is a virtue.  me I have none as I tried to do it myself and ended up ordering one from 68valu.


semp

[Reschke]

it was just a simplified version of it dk . I know it's a bit more complicated than that.  but it's not as hard as anyone can think.  of course patience is a virtue.  me I have none as I tried to do it myself and ended up ordering one from 68valu.

semp

+1 Which is why this one is on the way to me now.