Le second, sera la sortie de notre première compilation, Valerie & Friends, sur le label ESR le 27 mai. Le premier est le lancement de son nouveau site, dont nous vous reparlerons très prochainement dans de plus amples détails. Though I needed to splice the cable to first thread it through the hole.įinally, I decided to add a back to it, sprayed black so when seen from the side it wasn't noticeable.Au mois de mai, deux évènements importants vont se dérouler pour Valerie. I didn't want to go through all the complicatedness of drilling holes for the two keyboard connectors, so I used the same trick as previous of tying a knot in the cable. After I had bought this and was reading Ultimarc's site, I found out that they had released a simplified USB I-PAC which would have been much more suitable (and cheaper).Īll the old wiring removed, I tightened and re-orientated all the buttons to make things look neater.Ī 50 pack of lugs ($12) and 8 metres of wire ($4.70) were bought to do all the wiring. I've finally decided to upgrade from the hacked keyboard to an I-PAC ($80 from OzStick). If you plan on building a desktop arcade stick, definitely invest in an I-PAC it saves a lot of work as well as making the controls accurate, but at this stage I was wanting to keep costs to a minimum.ĬAD DWG (drawing) file - accurate 1:1 drawing of the x-arcade stick The sticks dimensions where copied from the X-Arcade (who were nice enough to offer the blue prints on their site) and all of the keys where assigned to the same buttons. Below are pictures of the actual wiring, as you can see it was extremely messy. I did managed to fix some of the clashes by using signal diodes. Basically some combinations of buttons could not be pressed simultaneously. I used a hacked keyboard as the interface, and yes there were problems.
I bought the Happ joysticks and buttons from eBay, since OzStick at that time had only opened and were fairly expensive.
This was my first attempt at recreating the arcade feel, the total project cost me less then $150 AU. Thydzik's arcade stick welcome to my web page about my arcade stick PART I (year 2002)
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