Power shouldn’t be too big a deal as long as you don’t run some 50 leds with the kaimana.
If there is a board update chances are you will just unplug the harnesses out of your original kaimana and reattatch all the wiring to the new one. It’d probably take no more that 10 minutes tops.
You’d probably have to file down the 4 small tabs on the HBFS buttons for installation purposes on both the stick and for peles. Also since the snap in tabs are very stiff I’d be careful when mounting the pele on the button as well.
How would you hook a joystick LED into the array? I’m guessing you’d need an adapter for that too? Is there a harness for that or will this take a slip-ring harness and scotch-locking it to a harness?
You’d need a monochrome 3mm LED, an adapter board, a pele harness, and a few scotch locks. You would essentially have the voltage line connected and the ground line to either the R,G,or B line. Then you have to code the respective color into your chain on the kaimana Arduino sketch.
A lot of the videos for the Kaimana show a joystick with with multiple colours though? I see Paradise Arcade actually sells a hollow shaft/slip ring/balltop combo in addition to pre-assembled balltops. Does that mean you can scotch the RGB and voltage/ground lines together with a pele harness and hook it into an adapter board to get a light up multicolour stick or would hooking a 5v LED (Not a pele obv) into the order require some other kind of wizardry?
(I’m guessing normal 6mm mounts don’t have RGB LED options from your monochrome comment and the fact that none are listed in Paradise’s stock. Meaning the custom 10MM from Paradise is the only option when going this route with a Kaimana? Not that this is a problem. The Hoku balltop vids make it look amazing.)
That would be with an RGB LED. The one in videos is probably through PAS’s RGB LED stick. This would be the same method as i mentioned but with scotch locks for every line.
If you plan on using seimitsu or sanwa sticks with a hollow LED shaft then the only RGB solution would be SMD LEDs, which are a bit of a pain to solder onto.
I’m wondering if anyone has a general purpose code for “switching off” the idle animation by holding a certain combination of buttons for x amount of time; and then being able to “switch on” the idle animation by performing the same action. Sometimes when I’m playing at night or by myself without any need to show-off I just don’t need the idle animation to play and would like to shut it off but retain my button flashes upon press.
EDIT; Here’s the sketch I’ve been using since I uploaded it before on page 3. I’m sure there’s some extra stuff in there I don’t really need since I hijacked it in December but it’s been working just fine otherwise.
@Zensouken The easiest thing I can think of is adding another loadout of just your button preferences without the idle animation/dummy loop in the menu. Not sure if it’s good in practice…
@liquidcourage I’m hoping I don’t have to resort to separate loadouts to achieve this but unfortunately if it does prove to be a real pain in the ass then I guess I’ll have to bite the bullet. I’ve been experimenting with the code the past few days so I’m hoping I can post with a good result next time.
With the Kaimana wiki down, I was wondering where I could do some reading and look at basic code concepts to get my head around this before my order stocks and arrives.
I need a place to look at basic stuff to help me parse the basic code that seems to ship with the board and also so I can begin to work towards more complicated stuff like A) Getting my joystick LED to fade in and out smoothly B) Getting a single button to fade in/out smoothly C) How to create/code/use a menu select for different colour/action profiles and D) How to deactivate the LEDs completely with a held button.
I was planning on using my start and select buttons for the “Hold down, activate menu” or “Hold down, deactivate LEDs” options.
Is there a resource I could look at to get my sea-legs on this coding/see examples of what I’m hoping to do to mimic/learn from?
Hey Armi, a friend of mine purchased a Kaimana set up from you. I was suppose to help him order it, but I was out of town. At any rate, he jumped the gun and I think forgot to order a vital component to the set up. He has: