My home built metal DDR pad (Part IV)

Tenesu · Basic Member Joined: 05 Feb 2004

I have a few more questions, that might have to do with my last post (2 posts up)--
1. I opened the cat5e telephone wire and there were 8 wires with diffrent colors which were twisted into 4 diffrent pairs(one color one white). My question is can I use the 4 colors for UP, DOWN, LEFT, RIGHT, and one white one for ground even though it was wrapped up with another color?

Yes, you can use one wire for ground and 4 for signal wires.

2. What do I do with the 3 extra wires?

Anything you want, I'd keep them in case you want to add something else later like lights, another button, etc. I wouldnt recomend that you use them for carrying high voltage though.

3. How do I test the connection?

I'd recomend a multimeter with a connectivity tester. In a pinch you could get some sort of light, wire it with a power supply, and check that way.

Like this, where the O is the light {+-} is the power supply and the __ | --- are wires.

____O____{+-}____
| |

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Paranoia Survivor · Trick Member Joined: 22 Jan 2004

Finished building my pad (Riptide Design). It's great! Working fine. But a slight problem. I've been so used to soft pads that when i play, i hit hard for some reason and i miss arrows alot. >.< Oh well, ill get use to it
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Jace · Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2004 3:18 am Post subject:

I've had my pad finished for quite awhile now but haven't played on it much because it didn't seem to hit arrows good.

At first it was a pain to press down meaning you had to put your entire body weight on the pad and by the time you did that the arrow would miss. We slowly took out foam peices and at the end were left with only the corner foam peices (cut up mouse pad) and now it bends down easily but it seems like you have to step down far (its easy to bend the lexan, it's just a long way to hit the sensor). The 2 metal peices also seem to stick a little bit which I think is causing a delay since i am hitting it but it counts as a good or boo. Suggestions?

Oh and how do you get that arcade feel when you step on an arrow? The arcade pad doesn't feel like it bends at all yet it registers every time you step on it, anyone know how they did it?

Tenesu · Basic Member Joined: 05 Feb 2004

flipmachine88 · Trick Member Joined: 20 Oct 2003 Location: yo mama!

i wasn't sure where this question would go but would it be possible to rewire one of those solo pads they sell at channelbeat.com in the spare parts section so that you can use it as a PS2 dance pad? if so how would you do it?[/url]

oranges · Trick Member Joined: 05 Nov 2003

WTF!!!!!I was playing earilier on my Riptide design and then everything just stopped working. What happened? Even the X,O,and triangle on the controllr don't work. Is there anyway I could fix this?

tolookah · Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2004 6:37 pm Post subject:

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Shadow_Dragonz · Trick Member Joined: 16 Mar 2003 Location: California

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oranges · Trick Member Joined: 05 Nov 2003

I have a question. Is there some way I could ground my pad? Like maybe using duct tape on the bottom or something?

hooded__paladin · Trick Member Joined: 10 Nov 2003

how the heck would that ground anything? Use your mind, and maybe get a little electronics theory.
There isn't really a great way to ground these pads, so
1. get an official Dualshock for the PS1. they're fairly shock resistant
and/or 2. put resistors in series with the wires going to the controller to lessen the effects of shocks

tolookah · Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2004 5:22 pm Post subject:

maxxlimited · Trick Member Joined: 24 Jan 2004

does anyone know where to buy lucite?

MarKoPoLo · Basic Member Joined: 18 Oct 2003

home depot and other such hardware stores. ask for plexiglass if you cant find it. no one there ever seems to know what lucite or an acrylic is. even if it is where they are stationed or whatever. hmmm....i have a slight question here. HOW THE HELL DO YOU GUYS KEEP FRYING YOUR CONTROLLERS THROUGH STATIC AND poopy???? i honestly dont understand this. i have had my pad for months (which i built myself and of my own design) and have never ever encountered such problems. WHAT ARE YOU GUYS DOING SO HORRIBLY WRONG???? i mean im sorry to sound like such a jerk but this seems to be an on going problem without an answer and better yet i have yet to understand as to why you people have these problems. i live in canada, its cold up here. the air is dry so thus there is an excesive amount of static in the air. i play on shag carpets (bad for static). i also play in my shoes, i have played in my socks, and my sister always plays barefoot, so honestly what is going on here? i dont understand this problem what so ever. would some one please enlighten me as to what it is that you do that is different and causes such problems? this is undoubtedly mind boggling to me.

enjoy!

by the way, i believe one of you wanted the design to my pad when i was done. who was it and do you still want it?

enjoy

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hooded__paladin · Trick Member Joined: 10 Nov 2003

many cheap 3rd party controllers are bad at handling static. A lot of people will buy the cheapest controller they can find, but that's not ALWAYS a good idea. Sounds like you just have one that doesn't have that problem.

oranges · Trick Member Joined: 05 Nov 2003

So, I bought a Sony made controller. It was a tad harder to solder but it works.

Knee-ill · Trick Member Joined: 10 Jan 2004

maxxlimited · Trick Member Joined: 24 Jan 2004

hey guys, im done with my pad, sometimes all the arrows and button doesn't work at all. When i unplug it and plug it back in, it works perfectly fine

. Can anyone tell me whats going on, thanks.