Recent content by brentphx

Resurrected from the dead, aka the bottom of my craftsman box, I think I'll see how badly I messed this up... 6 years later. I will be revisiting some of my mistakes and shortcuts, there seems to be new toys on the market that might be helpful too.

iMac or MacBook Pro? I'm picturing one of the old iMacs with the colored shell and the CRT embedded and having a reeeeeally hard time imagining that being very portable!! Since you said .5" bottom, I'll assume Pro lol. The reason I chimed in was just to ask if anyone figured out how to use a...

I finished... played a test game with the case open yesterday. DONE. Worked Perfectly. Closed the case and prepared to go sit on the couch and play a victory game! Ugggggh, I think I just went back to square 1. I closed up the case and was not as careful as I had been in the past. When I...

We have 2 360's and don't need both. This one has the drive firmware modded to play backup discs and was never connected to Xbox Live, nor was the dashboard updated so it was never hit by the mass banning that occurred years ago. My wife said it red ringed once so it was unplugged and set...

Project was shelved due to work/life demands... brought back out late last week after my 3 yo reminded me he still wanted to play it! When the controller didn't work, despite my most careful wiring I had a failed attempt months ago at shockslayer's guide to only using the controller chip. I...

Interested in a Wiikey/Wasp... whichever is available.

I found mine months ago just by googling the phrase... but if your searches were empty here's a link

I filled the hollow buttons with epoxy then cut/sanded them to height, to keep it from rotating I bonded a small piece of paperclip into the epoxy so that it stuck out ~3/16" from the edge of the button. I cut pieces of plastic from some leftover abs 3/16" x 3/8" x 1/8" thick abs and dremeled a...

Just to lighten your mood a bit in case it has you down... here's some car humor for anyone that's ever inadvertently let the smoke out of a wire. You can always try putting the smoke back inside the wires with this kit!! http://www3.telus.net/bc_triumph_registry/smoke.htm

I'm not sure why I'm having a problem with the controller, but I have rewired and it's still happening... worked before moving to the case when all tact boards were free floating. I started mounting everything in the case and connected up the l/r/z wires, c wires, and a/b wires to their...

I stole the speakers out of an old Toshiba laptop I had lying around, and yep those are speakers up top...since I wanted a 4.3" screen I kinda had to get creative with the button layout. I had to compress the c buttons a bit and the thumb stick needed to be below the screen to accommodate the...

That's a good looking regulator!! Nicely done, very clean!

Well, I'm not going to finish in time for the m.b.b. contest... even with the week extension. I have officially run out of time but I'm almost there. I have the case almost ready to go, leaving just a rough cut on the screen hole and the top plate to cut. I still need to mount the tact pads...

I probably won't play very much on it until I have it all mounted in the case... BUT... I installed it today and initially thought it wasn't working. A quick re-read of the manual and I realized I never set the tolerances on the first boot. I reset the chip, power on, rotate for 4 seconds...

Well, I'm rushing a bit... but... It's alive. I'm working on the buttons in the case at the moment but figured I'd share a video of it powered up in the case (without the top half on) while I work on the top half. I still have to do the l/r/c triggers in the bottom... but now I know how much...