F-awesome, I got an account so lets see if I can upload this stuff without too much issue. I’ll have a more comprehensive showing later, but…
KNsert inside a purple PS-14-KN
My ‘great’ job at dremmeling a hole thru the button, with two wires for the KNsert
Just the KNserts in my prototype joystick
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once its uploaded, a link to a youtube clip of the KNserts working nekkid
Prototype setup…lessoned learned, the plastic snap-ins from a solid look GREAT, but don’t let enough light thru. In a future install, I might actuall take a dremmel to it and try again, but since this is the stick I practice on also - I need it to function well
The original wiring…uhm yeah…about that…
So I went andbought a second board to resolder (too lazy to desolder the old board atm, I’ll do that for my next project instead). I decided that instead of having a ‘ba-jillion’ wires connecting my TE to my top, I’d rather cut it down…
Took the lid from a Ledo’s pizza box…?what?..it was laying there after I ate…I’m jussayin IT WORKED
Cut it down in size…actually I did this twice to get the thickness right
I then covered it in electric tape…(1) the black looked better and not as cheap…and (2) I just felt better with the electric tape there. You won’t see if here as I couldn’t find my damn glue gun, but (I just rebought my third sigh) I will glue that board to the TE top thru the buttons and around the rim. I would like to screw threw the board as well, but at the time I just didn’t have the right materials on me even though I thought I did.
Now peep the wiring. I took the lead to the ‘positive’ (what I deemed positive heh) side of the buttons, and actually soldered to the bottom of the peg, enough to stick, but not so much that the stick disconnects wouldn’t fit (I got all but two perfect). I also have provisions for joystick lighting already wired up, even though I decided against it (speaking of which I should yank out my drilled shaft for this stick and use it on another…it was friggin 20 bucks.
Hardwired to my case…I’d like to in the future - turn the connection to the power/GND - into a quick connect so I can truly take it apart, but I have a good ‘foot’ of space when I remove the top right now. As well, I no longer have a rats nest from all the friggin slack. I’d HIGHLY recommend doing TE installs something like this to cut down on the slack wires.
My stick currently, I painted the white inserts to the PS-14-KNs black to get a similar effect as the all blacks I swiped from some screw ins. I just ordered some vinyl coverds that I’m going to pair with them to make it ‘cooler’
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And here is the video of it ‘working’…well when I finish uploading to youtube…I hope I don’t get caught (at work right now as my computer is currently dead at home thanx to a harddrive crash)
f yo uahve any questions, let me know. I’ve got more photos…including my f-awesome solder job.