That would be such a glorious day.
I got $5 that says it is intended for mass producing, and that the OP is an alt login for someone else registered here.
For personal use? Nah. If they wanted to save money and build it themselves, the unassembled kits are pretty damn cheap.
Just wanted to understand how it works and have the pride of DIY? Then the UPCB project is way to go. Schematics, source code, part numbers, even the Gerber files for having your own boards fabbed, all available. There are a number of folks now getting their own boards produced and offering kits, and it uses all through-hole parts so making your own on a piece of protoboard is very doable, and how I did the very first one.
Do they already have the skills to do so? Nah, the question is worded all wrong for that to be the case.
aww man you dont know how many ppl would buy that
This isn’t an alt login, it is a legitimate question.
I’m very interested in mass-producing boards to supply the community with custom arcade sticks. I’m in possession of a high-end woodwork factory through my family and it has very significant excess capacity due to the downturn.
I personally do not have the skills to develop something like the Chulthu board on my own, but I think I know the right people. However, I don’t want to step on any toes in here and was basically teasing out the situation.
My idea is to provide the community and the public with high-end custom sticks, whereby a customer can choose their own wood, buttons, stick, artwork etc.
I’m going to create a few sticks in the near future to show you guys the quality and to maybe judge demand.
Toodles, I value and respect your work, so I have no intention of stepping on your toes here. Do you currently supply the boards to anyone for commercial purposes? Using your board is obviously the easiest option, but initial costing tells me that they would have significant impact upon margins. Unless we can do a deal on a bulk order that is. 
i know… you’d sell thousands.
The way i see it, this is a comunity product developed by someone who put his heart and soul into it.
I sincerely respect Toodles for making something as awesome as the Cthulhu board, if my TE stick doesn’t come through at the end of this month i might be buying two of his boards as making 2 sticks myself would only be 50,- more expensive as buying 1 Madcrapz TE stick.
But if you wanted to make something as Toodles his board you have to study micro-electronics i think?
Designing PCB’s and such, writing PIC’s and who knows what else?
Mad props to Toodles.
Little OT, but here’s again the opportunity to thanks toodles. He opens all his docs about the UPCB and due to this it was possible to study his work and even publish a batch of 30 UPCBs in local comunity in europe. The UPCB is a real success story for open source in my eyes.
You can save a bit of money on the cthulhu by buying the kit and doing the soldering yourself
-joe
Considering Norris Arcade Sticks stock of blank cases typically sold out in minutes, maybe you could just think about making and selling high-quality cases. You know, since you already have the material/facilities/knowledge for woodworking and wouldn’t require you to awkwardly ask how to pirate IP from a respected SRK member.
What’s up with the security on those 360 controllers anyway? Can you give us any details on how it works? I’ve taken a couple classes on encryption methods, who knows, maybe I could be of assistance somehow.
he never said or implied he wanted to pirate any IP
-joe
If 14$ that the chtuhla costs will eat into your profit margin I don’t see this being much of a money making venture. You have to look at it like this. Most people who would want a custom stick know alot about this industry. They probably have the skill to assemble a stick if they have the parts. You can’t make the stick or buttons & it is cost & skill prohibitive to make your own PCB. So the only thing you are actually creating is the case. The time it takes to assemble a stick isn’t rally worth what it pays. The only thing I see fesable is making just the cases & selling those cuz most people don’t have the tools. Even then there isn’t much money in it. Ask any of the custom builders on here & see what Lind of scratch they are pullin. I bet it ain’t much.
No, he just asked if there was a cheap way for him to duplicate Chtulu PCBs without doing any of the work involved himself.
Don’t be so obtuse.
yep, i was wrong… good thing i didn’t put my money down!
i wont rant but i will say this, Norris Arcade Sticks basically does what you intend on doing but you intend on doing it at a DELL level, just buy the parts from toodles at the normal price (your margins wont be hit hard by it) or if you dont want to do that, just make the wooden cases…
any computer manufacturer that allows you to add custom parts (i.e dell) allow you to add decent brands and not just there own crap clone copies… think of the Cthulhu boards as such a component and charge accordingly or learn to solder and start buying some pads…
Of course. Hit me up on the 15th.
i sure hope you don’t think it’s me- i already learned my lesson 
:bluu:
OK, all extremely valid points, but I’d like to know what you mean by “industry”. Are you talking about the industry you have going on within this board or the whole arcade stick industry in general? i.e. custom & mass-produced?
I agree with you that most of the people on this board have the skill and knowledge to build their own stick (at least they know where to get that knowledge anyway). However, do you not see any value is being able to choose all your own parts and your own artwork, all from the one place? Plus a professional level finish? (fittings, laser-cutting etc.)
I know that may sound cynical- having it all done for you- on Shoryuken, when it’s obvious the amount of passion and attention gone into some of the project on here.
I definitely see a segment of the market though that would pay for a custom stick whereby they didn’t have to source all the parts individually, and that’s still not taking into consideration the finish I can get on the thing.
you reading too much into what he said, that’s what the problem is
it’s not i am obtuse
-joe
Basically what everyone is getting at is that they don’t like the fact that you are thinking about taking someone’s work and profiting off of it without giving something back to the original creator. But if you could work out a bulk order deal w/ Toodles then that would be a different story.
Also if you could come up with something original that does the same thing and more, that would be good as well. (360, dreamcast etc.)
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Give that man a juice box And a gold star! I didnt think this would spark such an intersting debate, but here we are. As far as venturing out I’d say my hats off to you if you can do the same with the 360 or even better the wii so we dont have to rip apart sticks and classic controllers to get the job done. (not that I don’t love my controller shell graveyard, but sometimes we all need change XD )
