My home built metal DDR pad (Part IV)

OmegaFreeStyler · Trick Member Joined: 08 Jul 2003

you can get a trakball mouse for compusa and intergrate it into the joystick.
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SpaceMan · Trick Member Joined: 03 Dec 2002

I was just wondering .. What's the best kind of controller to use for wiring? The cheap $5 ones usually dont want to co-operate with me.. They always somehow blow a fuse, something like that.

Anyone have any preferences for me? Thanks .. Oh! And if so, can you post pics of the circuit boards, too?

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OmegaFreeStyler · Trick Member Joined: 08 Jul 2003

hey i saw your video of you playing, can you send me the song, it sounded like mario and i like mario
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Bouncy Hug Girl · Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2003 7:32 pm Post subject:

where can i get an 11 by 11 picture of an arrow that prints out that size

Bouncy Hug Girl · Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2003 7:32 pm Post subject:

where can i get an 11 by 11 picture of an arrow that prints out that size

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OmegaFreeStyler · Trick Member Joined: 08 Jul 2003

Here Are some arrows but this was already talked about before
Go to ecpage.com/ddrarrows to get the full size of the image

Those are basically it, but you can find other arrows [if you spent time looking around..]
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Andreq · Trick Member Joined: 11 Apr 2003 Location: Quebec foreva

OMFG !!!!! link the picture !!!!!
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SpaceMan · Trick Member Joined: 03 Dec 2002

Okay .. So I've been thinking about the wiring for my pad, and here's what I think I should do.

For each panel, there will be NO soldering. Meaning that I'm going to wrap the wire around each screw and tighten them down as tight as possible. The only soldering will be on the circuit board of the controller [Obviously.].

Now, the actual direction part of the arrows will be on the top and bottom of the square, and the ground wiring will be on the left and right. I'll be using some sheet metal contacts, like Riptide's current pad [not like the one he's working on at the moment.]. I was wondering if this seems possible to do, and if it will possibly work. Anyone have opinions on this?

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ZotTower · Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2003 6:14 am Post subject:

I've had my pad done for over a month now and have been playing on it lots. I used corner brackets like beefman, but used washers to rise them to the point where the arrow panels barely had to drop any to make contact. The result is very nice.

Some pics of my design:
http://student.seas.gwu.edu/~zottower/DDR%20Pad/

BUT, as far as I'm concerned there is a big problem with beefman and riptide designs....they're too complex on the inside. There are so many things inside each arrow panel that have to stay EXACTLY in place, or you'll start getting ghost steps, non-working, or partially working arrow panels. Think about it - you're gonna have somebody jumping and stomping all over these panels. They are going to be under a lot of stress and chances are, things will come loose. I designed mine very carefully, but still there have been 3 major things inside panels that have come loose or have broken....

1) The wires that connect the 4 corner braces have come loose or have broken off at the ends about 3 or 4 times.
2) The sheet metal glued with 3M spray adhesive (which is about as good as you're going to get) to the bottom of the lexan has come loose on almost every single side of every panel. I've had to re-glue almost every one. The first time I don't think i used enough glue. I used lots of glue the 2nd time around and they have held up so far.
3) The washers underneath the corner brackets have come loose and moved out of place causing my brackets to not be the right height.

The best solution to this that I can think of would be to just simplify the design so that it doesnt have so many points of possible failure. DDRHomePad's design is great because it is so simple and easy to make. I would definately recommend going with his design, or something similar, over riptide's and beefman's. The only downside to DDRhomepad's is that it doesn't support lighting. Sometime within the next month before I move to Japan I would like to try to re-do my arrow panels with a modifcation on DDRHomePad's design to make it more sensitive. There's a box factory nearby my house that sells this really thin (maybe 1/8th inch) durable foam-core type stuff that would be good for this.

So all I gotta say is to keep your designs simple. If you make something overly-complex, you're going to spend lots of time tweaking it and fixing things until it's fairly stable.

My mostly finished pad:
http://student.seas.gwu.edu/~zottower/Finished%20Pad.JPG
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Momo -YHB- · Trick Member Joined: 15 Feb 2003 Location: Killeen, Texas

I finally have a problem with one of my pads, but only when I play it on the playstation, not when i play it on my computer ie stepmania, dwi. Now, when I plug the controller into the playstation, its like my pcb is possessed ( im using sony ps pcbs ). I dont even touch the pad and its starts registering every button at once. I managed to get passed the song menu without getting irritated and all the arrows register at once and keeps on going, and even at the menus it moves by itself. I thought it was the pcb so I replaced it with another one, and still the same problem. Im using beefmans contact design. Does If this helps any, with the arrow panel taken off, I touched one of the corner brackets with my finger( beefman contact design ) and it registered the button multiple times. Does anyone know what the problem could be? Any help would be greatly appreciated