Building a cheap rotary controller

[sh3-rg]

This only cost £2 a pad to make (for encoder, switch and cheap push-on rubber knob)

 

Got the invoice in the post, with delivery, some heat-shrink I forgot about and VAT it came to around £2.70/pad, not £2. Would have been £1 more expensive per pad for aluminium knobs.

[K3V]

Not to totally take over this thread but I wanted to share. Have a friend who does vinyl graphics, so I had him do me up some Jag logos for my arcade stick. Think they came out great. Check it out! There's one on the front and one on the top by the rotary.

[Zerosquare]

Very cool !

[sh3-rg]

Not to totally take over this thread but I wanted to share. Have a friend who does vinyl graphics, so I had him do me up some Jag logos for my arcade stick. Think they came out great. Check it out! There's one on the front and one on the top by the rotary.

 

K3V put up a video of his kiosk with spinner/stick panel:

 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-gJdIiY_Rs

[K3V]

Thanks for sharing! The best part is that with just a few bolts I can reverse the mod back to the original Jaguar controller. No damage/changes done to the kiosk itself.

[Hyper_Eye]

I love the pinball controls! That makes me want to start searching for a kiosk. I think finding one would be easier than convincing my wife I should have it.

[ACrystal2011]

my controller circut board looks differant than that one

[ACrystal2011]

K, Got it figured out Here's my new rotary controller :

 

[K3V]

Nicely done!

[Sleepy]

Hi,

 

I used one of the terrible ATARI "deluxe" Joysticks. As stick, this type of controller is useless, but as rotary-controller pretty.

Trigger "A" & "C" are put on the original triggers, the "B"-button is intrigued to the encoder - I used an ALPS-encoder with push-button.

 

The nob´s shaft is shortenend as far as possible.

 

Additional, there are two micro-switches for "Pause" and "Option":

 

A new pcb with a reduced version of the original Jaguar-controller-circuit replaced the original:

 

The diodes in the pics are back to front!

 

Sleepy

Edited May 21, 2012 by Sleepy

[Zerosquare]

Nice !

[+Stephen]

Hi,

 

I used one of the terrible ATARI "deluxe" Joysticks. As stick, this type of controller is useless, but as rotary-controller pretty.

Trigger "A" & "C" are put on the original triggers, the "B"-button is intrigued to the encoder - I used an ALPS-encoder with push-button.

 

The nob´s shaft is shortenend as far as possible.

 

Additional, there are two micro-switches for "Pause" and "Option":

 

A new pcb with a reduced version of the original Jaguar-controller-circuit replaced the original:

 

The diodes in the pics are back to front!

 

Sleepy

Awesome!

[MAYAman]

Awesome work, but since I don't have one of those I'll stick to my JefiJeff original