After I’m done gathering as much information as I can out of the stick I’ve currently got for testing. I’m going to most likely keep one of my prototypes (now that I think about it), and see if I can’t get a hold of an S version to compare. To be honest, there’s only a few slight tweaks left on v1.1 to make it perfectly ready for people to use (at least that’s what I’m hoping, depends on what my testers have to say). If the S version requires nothing more than adding a few more pads for pins to go, and just not populate them for those that have round 1/2 TE’s, and only populate them (or populate them instead I should say) for the people with the S versions, then I may try it out on my production run. I don’t believe they would require moving the rows of pins, but I can’t really be sure until I get my hands on an S version.
If the measurements are slightly off or something, then I can just take that information to heart, do some adjustments and call my first run ROUND 1/2 ONLY boards (which they are right now). To be honest, I’ve already locked down the measurements of the header rows 99%, so adding another single pin next to the header wouldn’t be too complicated. If they require moving rows because the measurements are completely different…then I’ll have to have 2 designs 
Me too man, me too. For me, right now it’s more about finishing what I started. I want to see something I made go into people’s arcade sticks, I think that feeling would be absolutely awesome :tup:
I can’t tell you how shocked I was at how cool they were to handle. However, trying to lock down a distributor with decent prices was gigantic pain in the ass, mostly because each company has slightly different measurements. So I just had to pick one and ride it out. Also, figuring out which tips work the best was a pretty interesting process. The cup tips I’m using work awesome with through hole headers, and account for shitty factory solder joints, but the accuracy has to be much better than if I used a more “flat” tip.
You of all people should know just how many considerations need to be taken into account for a design. I changed one thing, and the rest of the design needed to change slightly. If I had used a flatter tip, the size of my corner stand offs would have to have been changed (since the joint no longer sits inside of the tip, but on top of it, adding extra vertical head room requirements). The problem with making them taller? I don’t think everything would’ve fit into the TE 
, it got nuts at times. I’m super proud of myself for riding it out though, and I’m determined to see it 100% complete.
I’ll do my best to incorporate S version compatibility, but for now I’m just going to assume this run will only work with round 1 and 2 versions.
Hopefully I’ll have all the parts required later this week to put together the rest of my prototypes for testing, I’ll be sure to send some PM’s in a day or two about it. Thanks again guys, I’m glad this is piquing so much interest :tup:
