diy rf joystick q's

Reaperman93010 · Post by **Reaperman93010** » Thu Jun 09, 2005 3:49 pm

does anybody have any good resources for building a reasonable wireless joystick from scratch? Even knowing little about RF, it doesn't sound too terribly difficult.

Ideally, I was thinking of taking standard arcade hardware and making myself a 1-button wireless arcade stick. I was thinking of a nicely routed base of cherry or walnut with a glossy finish on it. Just something a little better than stock to play my atari and commodore games with.

I don't believe wireless USB devices do enough pins for me, but I'm open to suggestions of what to tear appart to do this.

I got the idea while dreaming of the upcomming flashback 2.0. If I get ambitious, I may even consider a neo-geo version...

nos_slived · Post by **nos_slived** » Thu Jun 09, 2005 6:56 pm

Use a wireless USB device, and attach a parallel/serial convertor on one side, and a serial/parallel convertor on the other.

Afroman · Post by **Afroman** » Sat Jun 11, 2005 11:46 pm

A long time ago I modded a standard ps2 controller into a wireless controller. I used these chips to help do it. They are really simple: just power pins, data in, and antenna out/in
http://www.linxtechnologies.com/index.p ... =lc_series
Can buy them from digikey

Reaperman93010 · Post by **Reaperman93010** » Sun Jun 12, 2005 9:41 am

well those pretty much entirely solve my problem...
thank you very much.

amazing devices, I had no idea it was that simple.
why do controllers have cables these days.

nos_slived · Post by **nos_slived** » Sun Jun 12, 2005 2:22 pm

Because the more wireless devices there are, the more interference and crossed signals. Not to mention the cancer.

Post by **bicostp** » Sun Jun 12, 2005 4:00 pm

Not to mention in 5 years you can park outside someone's house and hijack their Forza Motorsport 2 car.

vb_master · Post by **vb_master** » Sun Jun 12, 2005 4:11 pm

Can you get samples of those chips?