Content Provider freneticamnesic Posted August 18, 2014 Content Provider Share Posted August 18, 2014 A few months back I was looking into cheap cab inputs with accelerometers and started tinkering with a sixaxis PS3 controller. Using a program on your pc called "motioninjoy" you could hook a PS3 controller up and use it as a joystick input, this was useful for games and, to some extent, pinball as it gave me a handheld control. The controller comes with a built in accelerometer that replicates joystick x/y movement by tilting the controller back and forth, by situating the controller to a stable position, you could set this thing up in your cabinet as a nudge device as well! The problem was, you'd still need to use an input controller to utilize your arcade buttons if you wanted this, and as we all know, VP doesn't support multiple controllers natively. Enter the axisdapter - a device created years ago for people who wanted to build their own fight stick arcade controllers - it was just a simple board that let you hook up arcade buttons, joysticks, etc to a disassembled sixaxis controller and use those as input in place of the controller buttons! I looked for one for a while and didn't really trust any of the sites selling them, so I cooked up my own. With the help of a colleague I got some built, assembled and ready to use. I had to order a minimum quantity which was more than I needed but the price was good and I figured it might be useful for other members for their cabs, mostly for mini cabs that are low on room and built on a budget. With that being said, if you have a spare sixaxis controller and need an input controller for your cab, I've got a handful of these devices for sale for 25 bucks. I'm not really making a profit on these, I just wanted to provide my extra devices for people. This will include UPS shipping, so I think it's a good deal. I took this idea a bit farther, and wired up a magnetopot to one of the unused joystick axes on the controller for use as an analog plunger, that actually ended up working quite well. You can see that wired up here: Ignoring the yellow flat item and 3 wires, that's the assembly for the controller and axisdapter (including FRC cable) and you simply hook the controller up via the USB cable that you normally use for your sixaxis controller. There's the board itself, pretty simple. It provides 17 inputs or so plus the accelerometer. It's really small, about 1 1/12 inches wide. They're here if anyone needs them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RenegadeFred Posted September 11, 2014 Share Posted September 11, 2014 That sir, is really damn cool. I may want one (or a few) of these in the near future... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Content Provider freneticamnesic Posted September 11, 2014 Author Content Provider Share Posted September 11, 2014 Give me a heads up if you're interested, I sold out of boards but can do another small run! I had someone else tell me they'd buy one if I ordered more Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Content Provider Rascal Posted September 11, 2014 Content Provider Share Posted September 11, 2014 Wow, so much information in those pictures, including a credit card ending in 7254. Now I just have to guess the other 12 numbers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RenegadeFred Posted September 11, 2014 Share Posted September 11, 2014 Okay, well if / when the time comes (hopefully sooner then later) to finally build the mini pin I will give you a heads up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Content Provider freneticamnesic Posted September 11, 2014 Author Content Provider Share Posted September 11, 2014 plot twist rascal: it's an AMEX Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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