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@toodles - Pull the BT board out of one of the PS3 consoles and find out. ;) If I had one for testing I'd already have done it and posted that info instead, but that's the first step you'll kinda have to take since messing with the controllers is out.
Well, I looked into that, going over some of ...

I suppose I'll start out by making clear the goal of all of this. The folks at Evo2k.com that run the annual Evolution fighting game tournament use PS3's for running their current gen games. Most folks with arcade sticks have no problem, but a lot of folks like to use the SIXAXIS or DualShock 3 pads ...

I realize I'm a bit late, but I'd love to help however I can. My electronics knowledge is limited, but I've designed more than a few boards in EAGLE that ended up getting make and sold. I usually deal with arcade stick controllers, but this is still my kind of tech :)

You wanted another pair of ...

I don't know about reprogramming the microcontroller itself; it'd definitely take some fine soldering to get the program/ICSP/JTAG/whatever pins going to a programmer.

However I do know that writing your own firmware to work as an Xbox controller is possible, since I've done it :)
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Congratz, Makezine.com linked you, and they even said it was a forum poster and not Ben Heck.

On topic though, does anyone around here do PCB fabricating? Not that Rat Shack PCB kit kind and nothing like a nice 6-layer motherboard, but anything along the middle lines though, like a 2 layer board ...