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Stoli, about how far do your arrows move down when they're stepped on before they contact? I think that mine might be travelign too far, causing my scews to hurt.

slvrshdw, a wireless pad, eh? I th ...

My thinking would be that it'd make construction easier. Like, I've been having some trouble getting the four holes in both pieces of plexi and the hole sin the plyboard base to line up. So i was thin ...

I had a neat idea today.

What if you had each arrow be a seperate piece, then connect them together with a border?

Like, the progression (in my mind) from top to bottom of an arrow

Top -10 7/ ...

Looks like I"ll need to build some form of jig to get these right.

a warning about the haphazard contoller testing - Short the FULL power of the controller, and you'll blow the 750ma fuse inside th ...

Hello!

Could anyone who uses the screws instead of the corner brackets go into more detail about how they got the holes on the two pieces of plexiglass and the wood all lined up right / straight? I ...

In some form, yes. Some people have them as simple pushbuttons or attached to the controll box, but you'll probably need them for various things like selecting songs.

--Matt

I am told that open cell phone is nearly infinitly compressable, so you shouldn't have trouble.

I still need to experiment with the best foam or whatever, but that's what i'm trying first.

I'm planning to make my pad have switchable controll box things (so it'll play PS2, Xbox, and PC).

I hear that I can easily solder a USB connector onto an xbox controller.

So, here's my question ...

Yeah, I'm just building one for now (for *me*! Anyone else can use the dang softpad while I play ;-))

Anyways, I think that the 2x.25" plexiglass is well.. overkill!

Does anyone have anything th ...

Though i haen't started lighting up my PAD yet, I have thought about it.

A word of warning for the PS2. - there is a 750mA fuse on the controller ports. That means that both controllers, AND memory ...

The sheet metal isn't too bad price wise, but the plexiglass is a killer!

I'm building a pad with six arrows, and using riptide's spec's for the arrows - I'll need 12 .22" think pieces of the stuff ...

How do you attach a piece of sheetmetal to the underside of one of the arrows?

And, how should I cut the sheet metal? I was thinking of using a saber saw (hand held jigsaw thinger) with a metal-cut ...

Hello!
For the arrows on the pad, I'm trying to figure out the exact dimensions of everythign (why? Because I'm too poor to buy the wrong stuff!)

If i use 23/32" think plyboard, and two .22" think ...

Alright!
My design is now as follows:
Based on riptides.
Much shorter.
The adjustable screw style arrows (though with a plyboard base - so everythign isn't exposed.)
No corner brackets, instead t ...

I don't really know how a CF is built. (never even seen one in real life)

For a six panel design, would it work to build a border around the pad, so the corner brackets could be screwed into that? ...

That thing looks nice!

How do peopel do six panel designs (witih the X and the O)? I assume it's a little harder than just building six panels like you do the arrow ones, because then the corneres ...

well, you've convinced me - I'm going to be attempting a version of your arrows, only well.. shortened. (my pad is looking to be much shorter).

You used springs.
Others have used Open Cell Wethers ...

Nice job with the electronics, xerox - It's almost exactly what I am thinking of doing.

Iam hoping to, instead, a) use LED's, and b) design it so, if not plugged into the wall, it'll still work jus ...

Sweetness. With that note, I'm off to start building! :-D

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I've got the bottom layer of the base laid out, now onto the five solid panels.

The picture says they're an inch think, but the ...

I know that!

I'm just making sure i'm not goofing over the design completly.

Let me retry - If i were to build the base with shorter wood, it wouldn't interfere with it's ability to work properl ...