32, I PM’d you. I think…
i saw it and replied but your mailbox is full
any news or development thus far sir?
Right now it’s pretty solid. I have had it installed in on of my sticks for a week now with no issues
I have about fifteen of rev one sitting around and am going to solder them up
I am waiting on the final to arrive but am also in shortage of atmega328. Only have six left
Gonna do a bulk order if them
The interface to device software is working well but like I said waiting on final boards to stress test
@purplearms is back sometime this week and will be chatting with him.
More soon I promise
D’oh! Cleared them out now. When you get the chance…
sounds good 32teeth. just trying to my hands on one thats all 
wow that final revision is taking forever to get to you 
These should work for the pin headers, right?
Had to resend address…T_T fail on my part.
lol mufasa, i was referring to 32teeth waiting on the final revision of sparky jr. been itching to get one of these bad if the only difference between the 1st and final revision is only the tx and rx leds + resistors then honestly it doesnt matter to me, i can take one of those off his hands.
i honestly think once we get these in our hands and start doing different stuff and posting our results maybe more people will be interested in this. im actually suprised there arent more people beside the usual suspects (purps, gummowned, jdm, spenz, mufasa or myself) lined up for one or more of these. its a brilliant concept, pcb and diy software solution. yeah the wiring part looks a lil scary, but he made it as easy as possible with sparky jr. more people should be drooling over this.
Hey All
Sorry about the delay.
Back from NYC now and just catching up on other client work
I have been working on the documentation and will be soldering up the ones i need to send out.
I am waiting on some ATMEGA chip to come in still. i have less than boards.
end of week they should be mailed out… …sorry for the wait. but then again, you guys are getting the limited edition (sic free ones)
I think that last part is why you don’t see more people clamoring for this. I talked a bit with purp a while back about teh arc eyes. When you think about it, most people want a PnP solution for almost everything. The thought of soldering freaks people out. Now, toss in soldering SMD components and you’re really talking about only the dedicated, patient, insane, or combination of the 3. It takes a bit of thought and work to set your arc eyes up to work like you want to, even though you have plenty of options on how they operate. Same with the Masterstrike. USB and power switching on a board is fantastic, but you’ve got to put some thought and work to getting it right. Same with the OG Leo. I was really surprised there weren’t more wireless dual mods out there, but it does take a good bit of time and a lot of soldering. The Leo2 makes it easier, but there’s still a bunch of soldering to be done to make it happen. A vast majority would probably have problems wiring up a Chimp. These kinds of boards, while much more customizable, are a bit more hardcore
The first soldering mod I did was the wireless dual mod (I had my axisadapter stick, but that doesn’t really count). Having never hacked a pad before and deciding to add LEDs at the same time was a lot to do out the box, and scared the crap out of me. I know I bugged Gum and Ben regularly while wiring everything up. I got it done, but only because I was patient and insane (depending on who you ask). It definitely takes a certain kind of person to get something like these projects together.
@spenzalii - true enough
additionally, the intentions are to offer soldered up (smd parts) pin header on your own, and as a kit (for the hardcore)
spenz i see your point, i guess some of these mods are a lil over everyones heads…i guess a certain passion and dedication is needed to see these all the way through. At the same time at least people like us who chose to embark on these hardcore type projects have something to differentiate ourselves from other modders. Masterstrike, Arcs, and Sparkies are full of win, being the type of person I am, I would feel too stupid if I passed these up when building my custom now, then I would be scrambling to implement them after the fact. So I figure come grips with it now, and get past the learning curve of it all, then future projects will easy as cake.
i find this forum being the best for stick building. there are other sites and forums but this community is just friendly and fully of great minds that challenge limitations of their own and others products.
crappy iphone image
but here you go
these are the ones going in the mail tomorrow. without the atmega chip since who the are going to have some
that’s why they have the 6 pin 90deg male header for the ftdi conneciton
hotness sir
I was wondering about those headers there…
OK, to get the settings for what colors do what, do we need the ftdi programmer or was there going to be a USB bootloader? I wasn’t exactly sure reading it earlier. If the programmer was optional, we’d still need to solder up wires (or headers) to the VCC and ground and chain them to whatever PCB we’re working with (in my case chained with the MC Chulthu and Master$trike), right?
I’ve been trying to disect the picture of your SE to figure out how to start the wiring on Art’s acrylic case. Was that 28 gauge ribbon wire you used? I think I may have some more IDE cable left from one of my builds, but I may pick up that rainbow ribbon to make color coding this much easier. Trying to avoid the 30 gauge kynar for anything other than hacking the MadCatz fightpad to the MC
for now yes.
the software interface is still not release-able state.
that being said.
if you can do the ftdi yourself, the svn is available on the first page. simply modify the array for your colors
int pattern[12] = {
purple, // 1x punch
cyan, // 2x punch (ex with punch buttons SFIV & SSFIV)
blue, // 3x punch (ultra with punch buttons SFIV & SSFIV)
white, // 4x punch
purple, // 1x kick
cyan, // 2x kick (ex with kick buttons SFIV & SSFIV)
blue, // 3x kick (ultra with kick buttons SFIV & SSFIV)
white, // 4x kick
green, // P1 + K1 (throw SFIV & SSFIV)
yellow, // P2 + K2 (focus SFIV & SSFIV)
red, // P3 + K3 (taunt SFIV & SSFIV)
none // P4 + K4
};
USB is intended for a future release based on success rates.
But as for an update to the hardware, there are plans for a PWM version. (simply remapping the pins) which will introduce new base colors like: orange and pink. this will also open the doors for you to create your own colors and mixes.
as for the VCC|GND connection, the one i have mailed you you will need to connect to the VCC and GND pins of the FTDI header.
the final release has this sorted out.
Yep, it’s 28AWG 20 wire ribbon, just rip apart what you need. although it would be nice if the red green and blue where beside each other. but meh, i lived with green yellow blue. #)AWG kynar is nice for not having to strip and simply solder through the tubing
HUzzah. Now to get that programmer and learn how to edit code. I had no success with the Master$trike, but the stock firmware did exactly what I needed it to do. This go round, I’m not so sure.
For the wiring, I’m guessing I could have a 2 pin female header for the VCC and ground to the PCBs, and unplug that when I need to program it, correct?