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conductivity is not a problem - with the Riptide design, the whole arrow isn't a contact. I just have contacts in the corners and I could put springs in the sides.

I recommend putting the contacts ...

For riptide's pad design, when screwing the brackets into the small wooden triangles, which screws should be used? is it the screws which came with the brackets or the sheet metal screws he reccomends ...

I do have the videos.... Any who, the sizes for the files are (from 1 to 5) 62megs, 133megs, 90megs, 95megs, and 128megs. Those are not rounded.

Shadow_Dragonz

My files are all approximately t ...

Bit torrent

Bit Torrent is an application thingy for distributing files. Basically, one person has the file makes a torrent file for it. People get the torrent file which starts t ...

shadow, why not use bit torrent.
announce it on the ddramerica tracker.

If someone put out a torrent I'd be glad to help seed it most of the time. I have poopy bandwidth from now until the 5th, ...

One more question. its been estimated that this costs 120$ Where is all the money going??? the metal im getting is cheap, and the wood cant be much so im wondering where the money goes in this project ...

i was wondering why in some instructions, there are little triangles of wood in the arrow wells, does this help to attack the brackets?

The wooden triangles help support the corner brackets. Witho ...

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mending brackets as the contacts

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Does anyone have a tutorial for this, or at least images?

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Ok, for anyone who wants to see a picture of the contacts done with ...

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I would think that the spring would damage the acrylic. Am I wrong about that? Well, with a spring, there shouldn't ever be a time where you would need to replace it, which is great! I ...

6) Has anyone else found any other kind of contact that would work...I mean other than the weatherstripping.

My friend and I are building a pad that uses springs instead of weatherstripping. It's ...

Thanks RisingFire. Now, the question I have next is how did you solder to the contacts on the Sony controllers. They got that crazy anti-solder coating. There a good way to remove that?

I was ab ...

It is definitely a great pad, I passed everything in Max USA on one. I've heard that using it on carpet can lead to some problems, so I recommend using it on a hard floor.

After a lot of heavy use ...

Ok i now know which wires to solder to where on my controller but soldering them is a doggy. For the ground though i have a question. Can i hook all for wires together and run them to any 1 ground poi ...

"]Currently running OS 10.1.5
G3 600 iBook
256 megs or ram

It requires 10.2.3 or greater (including 10.3 WWDC Preview Release). At least, no one's successfully run it on anything older than th ...

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Also how sensitive are the contact with only 2 on each side? I am wondering cause i might do the screws if those are more senmsetive.

Mine are extremely sensitive, but it took a lot of tweaking the ...

shuiend, answers to your questions and more are in the video instructions on Riptide's site. I highly recommend watching them, they explain the entire project very well. Of course, if you use a mode ...

What are alternatives to putting the sheet metal pieces on the plexiglass (a can of adhesive was $12. I'm not paying $12 for something I'll probably use only once, call me cheap

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I used some gl ...

Ok, for anyone who wants to see a picture of the contacts done with mending brackets, I finally took some pictures.

Here are the mending brackets:
[url=http://people.ucsc.edu/~depkelly/DDRPad/arro ...

OK, so I haven't checked this thread since page 2 or so back in the day since I talk to riptide on MSN mostly. I asked him a few questions 2 days ago (forgot what they were) but his answers were like ...