Woohoo!! Thanks Toodles! My PCB has arrived! Safe and sound with good packing materials.
I picked up one of the fully assembled versions as I am too new to soldering and stick building in general. Quality work! Never in a million years would I be able to solder as nicely as it is soldered right now. Hereās a pic, sorry but I used my stinky iPhone camera:
Will be making up a thread with better photos once I have all my parts ready to assemble.
Okay, I quickly hacked one of my other images to explain. Basically the PCB would be small enough to fit between the joystick and buttons in many layouts and have the connector facing the front of the controller. The layout of the PCB does not need to be the same as the image to achieve this; maybe the connector could be on the left side to center it better. And maybe the PCB could be narrow as to run lengthwise along the front of the controller with the connector facing out a long side. Iām not sure how appealing others would find this.
Maybe its a bad cuestion right now, but im very interested to purchase one of the Cthulhu PCB, in how much time do you think the PSX support are complete?
If you want a Cthulhu board for PC and PS3, www.lizardlick.com has them, and you can order it immediately.
I do not know for sure when PSX support will be complete. I am very busy in school and havenāt had time to get the bootloader working yet. I donāt have an estimate yet.
Thank you for the interest.
For everyone:
An order went in on Friday for a LARGE batch of boards. It will probably be two weeks before they arrive, so there is a slight possibility both lizardlick and I will be out of stock for short period of time, but one that batch gets in, weāll have plenty.
Ok, Iām the first to admit that iām a 100% electronic noob, so Iām quite sure this is very simple to rectify.
My board arrived today (thanks toodles :)) and Iāve been mucking about with my layout with buttons on cardboard, and I canāt get buttons 11 and 12 to workā¦
Iāve wired it up in a way that i āthinkā is correct, but Iām hoping someone can tell me Iāve made a simple mistake and solve my problemā¦
Itās wired as belowā¦
------------ USB-------------
Grnd ----------------------B10
B13------------------------B9
B8-------------------------B7
B3-------------------------B5
B2-------------------------Stick Grnd
B6-------------------------Stick Right
B4-------------------------Stick Left
B1-------------------------Stick Down
??--------------------------Stick Up
??--------------------------Surge!
I guess the ??'s are going to be the butttons Iām after, but nothing registers with a button plugged into themā¦
Specifically, buttons 11 and 12 wont ever activate. They are read by the PS3 as the L3 and R3, the click when you press down on the analog sticks. No need to ever have those in a stick.