In my case it was not having the ground wire that caused it - IMG_0003 | Flickr - Photo Sharing! - ground screw terminal to a ground point on the sixaxis board. I’ve posted the photo in another thread before, but I’m hoping having it in the main thread will help.
The OS reinstall makes sense - Sony doesn’t give us a wide array of sync tools (nor should they have to normally). I’m hoping Drac doesn’t have to go that far. Does the reinstall have to be done from a USB drive?
I’m using a 18650 battery at the moment (i have tried with the stock battery soldering as you did) and the drivers I have are MotioninJoy_060003_x86_signed for windows vista. I really don’t want to reinstall the Os, don’t think i will go that far. The problem i’m having is that the leo + sixaxis won’t connect to anything at all, so i have no clue if any of the buttons work right now. I’m wondering if the sixaxis i have is shot (though it was brand new when i got it for this project 3 weeks ago…), or the board is shot. I’ll try and get some pics of the board i have assembled. Thanks for the replies.
still no luck on my end. I’m think about mailing this to gummowned to see if he can make it work. wish me luck
Quick question:
There are to “quick connect” points on the PS3 pcb. I know the 1st one is for the battery but what is the second one for? (refer to picture)
EDIT: OK so I see that the connection (loosely) labeled 1, is for the ground and vcc - which goes to the leo. But what is the connection in the middle (labeled 2) for? Also Can I use both batteries for this PCB? I rec’d the Long blue one for the Leo batt holder and I have the flat one that fits in the connectors circled in the picture. Thanks in advance for the help!!!
Figured I’d show some of the sticks I’ve been working on. Tell me what you think. The red one has the Leo in it. It is great! I’ll be adding a TvC & 360 pcb later!!!
I’ve got a question… would you combine shipping of the batteries+siaxis+leo board+ 4pdt switch with akihabara?.
If so, when do you think you’ll have them in stock?.
Thanks
…is the PS3 issue with the L2/R2 just wireless or also when using it wired?
The first connector is where the sixaxis’s lithium ion battery plugs into. I believe the second connector is the tilt sensor, but I’m not 100% sure about that. I haven’t noticed any issues with it not connected.
btw, you should only have one lithium ion battery in your setup.
I’ll be out of stock of the sixaxis pcb’s and lithium ion cells indefinitely.
Its for both wireless and wired mode for ps3. The only fighting game that I’m aware that this affects is MvC3.
Hi there, I recently bought a PLv2 PCB from akihabarashop and have today gone about trying to get it up and running.
I wired it up exactly as per the diagram (single sixaxis) and it’s not responding at all to any button presses or joystick movements.
I can’t even get the pad to activate by pressing the PS button, which is definitely correctly wired.
This is my first build, so it’s possible I’ve done something incorrect, but I’ve triple checked and my wiring is exactly the same as the diagram. The only obvious difference I know of is I’m using the battery from the sixaxis I used, so the pre-soldered battery holder is sat there empty. Would that cause a problem?
the only time I got any kind of response from the pad is when I picked it up to take the PS button wire out and as soon as I touched the screw with the (metal and uninsulated) screwdriver it registered as the PS button being pressed, so I was making some sort of contact between the wire and the pad with my fingers!
The pad defnitely works and the battery definitely has charge, when the pad was activated via the accident above, I could use the analogue nubs to navigate the XMB.
All suggestions are welcome, I can up a pic at one point if it’ll help, but I wanted to check on the battery thing before I went about taking pictures.
Thanks in advance!
-Matt-
do you still have sixaxis pcbs for sale somewhere?
I dont see instructions for the hori is there one.
Hi,
I’ve got 2 questions about connecting a wireless xbox360 controller to the Leo V2:
in the guide of akihabara there is no connection to the ‘ground’ on the Leo V2 pcb - just one connection for ‘trigger common’, every other connection seems to be for ‘signal’.
So I really just have to connect the ‘signal’ of the ‘D-Pad’, ‘Back’, ‘Guide’, ‘Start’, ‘RT/RB’, ‘LT/LB’ and ‘A/B/X/Y’ to the Leo pcb and the ‘trigger common’?
in every guide I found, the contact on the wireless Xbox360 controller pcb for the ‘Y’ button is divided horizontally - of course, mine is divided vertically.
So I always have to make sure, to select the ‘half’ which trace (standalone) doesn’t lead to another button, for getting the signal?
Please forgive me noobish questions & my grammar ^^
Hi, I did a custom stick with the first leo board a while back and wanted to update it a bit. Do you have any leo boards v2 in stock and a 4dpdt switch?
Are these still shipping out? I ordered mine half a week ago and I have still gotten nothing of confirmation in my email, except for Paypal saying that I paid.
Hey guys. It’s been awhile. I have the Leo v1 and I’m loving it. Got a question of you, Gummo. I had you do a complete install for me about a year ago. Had the xbox case. Anyway, I was cleaning up and redoing the wiring when a contact came completely off the xbox board. I have another board, but I’m having one hell of a time trying to get the solder to stick to the contact. Any suggestions on what to do? I would really hate to have to scrap this whole project because of this stupid thing.
Thanks again for everything! Keep up the great work!
doesn’t seem to be available on akihabara anymore.
@gummo can we still order from you?
and can someone provide the diagram on where to solder directly so we could use the stock battery of the DS3?
I still have a bunch of leo2 boards available for sale. I however do not have any more switches or batteries in stock nor will I be restocking them. You can find them on ebay if you want to buy them.
Regarding ground points
http://akihabarashop.jp/images/LeoSignalHookUpPS3Xbox360DC.jpg (official version of same thing)
checked your ebay account there were no items for sale 
I think he meant ebay in general.