Project diva homemade controllers

made it using acrylic with hand file, hack saw and 1/16th drill bit

i should've just gotten it laser cut lol lol

me playing with it :

couldn't get a better angle cause i was just using my phone as a "webcam", i just set it on a table

 

ya i used official DS4

 

does anyone know what spring the actual arcade cabinet uses for their 100mm buttons?
100g, 200g, 400g.. etc?

 

Hey, I'm famous. I also have an instructable on my project here for anyone looking for how to build a controller.

http://www.instructables.com/id/Project-Diva-FTCT-Arcade-Controller/

As for the springs, I have been playing with 200g. I have played the 400 with PoPn at an arcade but I feel they may be too strong with such a spread out layout. I do have some 400 on the way though for whenever akishop gets my other triangles sent out though, RIP order.

 

My slides are the blue arrows up top, only have 2 for now but when the rest arrive I will have 10, 5 on each side.

They arrived!

 

I started making mine last week. Been following Tomtortoises' build. I went with a wooden build though. I will post up some pictures when I get my acrylic in this week and finish it up. Wiring is going to be fun lol

 

That's fun to see my friends one on the first post, I gived him my arcade layout graphics for him, so let's share mine :3
He's pretty old now (2013-2014) and jsut had been updated for PS4 with new motherbord (Hori Mini Fighting Stick)

Now I'm seriously looking to found what springs and microswitches are the best to find again the arcade feeling :3

 

Speaking of springs, does anyone know where to get softer springs for the 100mm and 60mm dome buttons? I purchased my buttons from Adafruit. The sanwa ones were waaaaay too much so I got these instead but they seem hard to press (not sure what weight they are as well)

https://www.adafruit.com/product/1187

 

Oh I know how much better they are. I just dont have $300 to spend on 8 buttons. It wouldn't be so bad if there was a store that sold them in the states. The shipping from japan is redicilous, also I think the store selling them jacks up the price knowing they are the only sellers of these buttons.

 

...or just go completly insane....
as for buttons i went noname plus cherry switches...feels great, if you like click like i do. ;)
might get the original ones some day and upgrade...

 

Damn, is that just the generation 1 cab or did you make it?

 

Hello. My controller.
In size, a complete copy of the arcade panel.
Also "wings" flash 6 different colors in time with the music.
Working ~ 47cm touch panel.(True from the small size of the touch pad DS4, the developers in the game decided to make a general introduction for all the double slides)

 

That is fantastic. I wish I could have added wings but my laser cutter is only 24x12 inches

Do you have any more details on the touch slider and how it was made? I have been looking to upgrade my buttons to a slider.

 

I didnt realize that the DS4 touch pad was multi-touch... that certainly opens things up.

For my own controller I used k-shoot/sound voltex inspired dials with rotary encoders for the slides.

 

Video in good quality)

 

After lots of research, I made a working touch slider in 7 days. And it supports multi touch in all the combinations. Needs a lot of improvements, and it broke so I need to fix it, but I was able to hit all the wierd combinations of slides in Nostalgic on Extreme with it. Beauty of this technique is its easy to make, I'm considering making the plans for it public.

 

Not a low resolution? will double slides work left-left, right-right.
By the way the resolution of the original touch panel 32.

My touch pad is pretty simple. Dalshock 4 touchpad + copper foil and plume.

 

I'm aware its 32, I have access to a real cab and have studied it a lot. What they did was kind of ridiculous. My implementation is relatively low resolution (10 point), but I'm finding double slides work fine (left left, right right) so long as you follow my assumption in my software logic: the two hands will never be closer to each other than 2 elements. I can handle left and right slides anywhere on the board with one hand, I can handle resting your hand on one end while sliding on the other, but I think my assumption that dual slides will never be right next to each other will work. I can improve things further down the line with a custom PCB with multiple touch controllers to up the resolution to like 20, but for now I'm going to build something really solid with this 10 point version and really test it.

The elements are made with conductive ink. Processed through the arduino, its really easy to get it to the brook board. Your copper foil implementation looks pretty clean, does it work well with multi touch slides? I thought the PS4 dual shock touch pad was no good for this. The reason I chose the ink process is because its super easy and quick to make, and I have complete control over the sensing logic. But if this works well, I might adopt your method :)

Being observant, you have the real deal OBSA-LHSXF switches for your buttons. I couldn't find those online, where did you get them? And the connector that plugs into them? That is legit as it gets button wise.

One more thing to note: I just got in an Adafruit 100mm button, and my feedback is: the button shape is fine, the switch might be ok (going to compare to the real thing tonight), but that spring is SUPER tight. To save money it would be better to buy the springs and switches you need, and use the Adafruit frames. Or just buy everything original if you can :p