awesome awesome awesome i’m so excited i cant wait i’ve been holding off for months now on modding my sticks bcuz i am soldr n00bz now that there is a solderless dual mod option i’m in for at least 2! maybe 4 good work. now if only i could get solderless light up buttons … but that is for another thread.
would be nice of course. 
I think current issues needs a further round of prototypes. As Phreako mentioned in his blog he perhaps needs some kind of donation/support to make progress…?
Yeah I’m almost positive there will be 1 more round of prototypes to hammer out the last bit of details, if they’re successful I’ll sell the few I make until I get a large run of them. I was kidding about the donations though, prototyping is fairly cheap in comparison to most things I spend my money on.
On another note, I’m hitting up radio shack today to get myself some .015" solder and possibly some other stuff to put together the rest of the boards. My goal is to have them put together and shipped out by Wednesday. So far I’ve hit all my goals, don’t wanna lose steam now.
did you figure out how to incorporate it for the new ssf4 te sticks? Gummowned mentioned that one or two pin locations was slightly different… perhaps you could use a solder jumper of some kind
I’ve thought of how I’m going to do it, but until I get my hands on a TE-S, I can’t be sure. The way I plan on doing it is a fairly simple adjustment that won’t result in anything major. It really depends on how different the header structure is, but I have a feeling I can make it work without issue.
I may be getting a Super version soon to test with, and if it’s is soon enough I have enough time for 1 more prototype run before I overlap the buffer time needed before EVO. Crossing my fingers at this point, heh.
Okay, nevertheless that would be worth it.
what would the chances,if any, be to have this work with a TvC stick?
None 
Same product type would probably work but it would have to be a totally different pin layout and possibly even a different size/shape. Do we even know if the TvC stick is common ground?
OMG…wow.
I almost want to replace my current stuff for this. But then my money would be wasted.
Now if one of my friends decides to get a stick…yeah, you bet I’m getting this to mod it for him.
I’ll be sure to get one of these for my future SE with a dual strike, I guess the chimp is nicer in the sense that you don’t have to ‘manually’ switch but who cares if it saves some hours of soldering and stripping with this mod. Pretty damn amazing. The only real work left is ripping a pad’s PCB, wirestripping that and fitting a USB cable in.
well i actually meant 360/TEazy/wii. the wii replacing the ps3. but figuring in the common ground answer might be the same.
Eagerly waiting updates on this. I want one ASAP…hell i’ll even help you beta test it.
The good news is that you could still do a very simplified mod with a ChImp board if you still want that autodetect option. As I mentioned in the OP, the only spots you’d really have to solder would be the D+ and D- wires in the ribbon cable, soldering them to the available spots on the ChImp (which Toodles has recently made easier to do in his latest version I believe). Of course, with a Dual Strike it’s pretty much plug and play though
Well, as far as updates go. I’ve locked down an assembly process, and I’m extremely happy with the results. A template for distributors is definitely viable in the future.
The only issue is that I don’t have enough sample parts to assemble and distribute the current prototypes if I want to have 1 more revision, so I’ll need to wait for the next spin of the board before doing so. The good news with that is I should have all the kinks worked out, so measurement issues will be worked out for Round 1/2 TE’s :tup:
The better news though, is that based upon recent developments I should also have SSF4 TE compatibility to accompany the next design. I can’t wait!
Cool shit man!
I’d just like to make my interest in this known too, I’d definitely get one
Um, I was wondering how the prototypes were going for these boards. I’m highly interested in these
Ah, sorry I haven’t been updating. Using the boards I have on hand, I’ve hammered out the details to make it work fully with the sticks I’ve designed them to work with. I didn’t want to send out the boards I currently have because…to me, they weren’t 100% to my liking, and I’d rather people test out boards that I think are 100% spot on to see if there’s something I missed. That way they don’t just focus on the stuff I already know is wrong with this revision.
The only reason I haven’t shipped out for 1 more prototype run just yet is that I’m waiting on an SSF4 stick so that I can include that compatibility with this revision for testing.
I’m still on track for an EVO debut, the next revision will be sent to the board house end of the week, guaranteed. I have a feeling I won’t have to adjust too much to make the compatibility work, but I’ll post up the results when I know for certain.
I might be late to the party, but I’d really like to drop in and say to Phreakazoid187 that this project looks absolutely AMAZING. It makes me wish I had one of these when I dual-modded all of my friend’s Mad Catz Arcade FightStick Tournament Editions. Hell, for the friends who live nearby, I think I’ll redo their mods JUST so I can use your TEasy Mod board in them. If you need a prototyper, I can work for you because I can put these things in any FSTE you could wish for and a few customs as well. :tup:
Those spring-loaded pins are incredibly clever and I can’t believe it hasn’t been thought of before! :bgrin:
I got a question though, have you encountered any problems using those spring-loaded pins? For instance, any board flexing (doubt it) or solder points cracking? Also, any chance you might come up a design with screw-terminals? That’d be boss, though it’ll probably be unlikely. :lol:
Thank you for the compliments, I’m really proud of this board (and my overall ability to build something like this from scratch). :tup:
As far as mechanical issues go, part of the issues I’m working out are board flexing problems. It’s from a mix of the spring force and my measurements being off a little bit, moreso the second one though. The flexing isn’t major, and I’ve worked out how to alleviate it (it has to do with the large hole in the near center of the board, I point to it in the video). I’ve tested my current boards to high hell, and I’ve never had issues other than some slight bending, no cracked joints or anything even close of the sort. I wouldn’t feel comfortable selling something to people that would cause any physical damage to their PCB.
Worst case scenario, there’s some slight bend (.2mm or so)…but it will only be in my board, not the TE’s PCB. Since my board doesn’t have any active components on it, that’s not a big deal. There are limitations to what I can and can’t do with the parts I have, and unfortunately I don’t have much play on adjustment of those parts, so small issues like a little flex are inherently going to be there.
I’ll be sure to keep you in mind for testers though, I’m curious how this board would work out for customs that have the gutted parts of a 360 TE. :tup:
Also just realized there were 4500ish views on this thread and it’s only been up for 2 weeks, holy crap :bgrin:
Damn, will you be selling this TEasy board with the dual strike board too?
Can’t wait to get my hands on one of these TEasy pcb and Toodles’ optical joystick mod once they are released.