My latest custom.

Br0ken_Engli5h

[09] Warrior
Here's my latest (and 3rd) attempt at making a custom stick for the 360. I'd finished it pretty much just as SFIV came out, so I've been using it for a while, but had forgot to post it up.

It has 9 sanwa 30s, with a JLW stick and square gate, ordered from the good man at Gremlin solutions. The PCB used was from standard madcatz wired pad.

It was cut and engraved on a CnC router, with the acrylic edges polished on a buffing wheel to give em that nice shiny look.

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The engraving on the sides doesn't show up too well on the pics, but it's pretty obvious in the right light. It's a hammer and sickle motif.

EDIT: Pic of the insides
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Heya mate, looks as good as the dogs danglies!

If you fancy making a fellow Yorkshireman one up id be happy to pay well ;)

PS- thats a serious offer btw haha
 
im attempting to make my first stick. having trouble wiring the damn thing up. but its a slow process

thats good lookin stuff my english friend. im green with envy. which is convenent cause today is st pattys day!!
 
That is an awesome stick! Makes me wish my parts for my 360 stick would come in sooner. How long did it take you to complete the whole thing?
 
Thanks for the comments, lads.
Doc, I've edited the 1st post with a pic of the insides. It's not the neatest of jobs, but it works fine. No matter how good my intentions are when I start a stick I can just never seem to keep the innards tidy. I need more practice, I think.

What pad(s) are you using, Dave?
 
love the acrylic work (especially the center half circle w/ inset button) and engraving on that thing. great job, beautiful craftsmanship.
 
that's brilliant!

Obviously you wired up the triggers too, where can a homie find the 10K resistors for that?
 
Thanks, Godspu, Outty.
I left the triggers and just wired the bumpers, which didn't need a resistor as they're not analog. Your best bet of finding one for the job will probably be radio shack or whatever, though.
 
Thanks for the comments, lads.
Doc, I've edited the 1st post with a pic of the insides. It's not the neatest of jobs, but it works fine. No matter how good my intentions are when I start a stick I can just never seem to keep the innards tidy. I need more practice, I think.

What pad(s) are you using, Dave?

from what I read from everybody. The madkatz that you used. This is my first time ever making anything like this. Im more acustomed to fixing cars. Electronics are fuck hard for me. I just want to get the damn thing funtional. Learn from my mistakes. then make another one in hopes it will be better!
 
I melted a wireless pad during training... lol
It's been rendered useless, but the knowledge gained gave me the skills required to solder up a pad to my old X-arcade stick. Now I can play SF4 on a pretty decent happ style stick, until my jap parts arrive :)
 
from what I read from everybody. The madkatz that you used. This is my first time ever making anything like this. Im more acustomed to fixing cars. Electronics are fuck hard for me. I just want to get the damn thing funtional. Learn from my mistakes. then make another one in hopes it will be better!

Yeah, Dave, the first stick I ever made was my first crack at anything electronics based. I managed alright, though, so you probably will too. I work in signmaking on a CnC router, so the actual case making is the part of the job I'm more accustomed to doing.

My first ever stick was a big, ugly behemoth of a thing, but it lasted me nearly 2 years and, apart from being a little on the slack side, still worked perfectly.

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so I was inspired last night to get back to making that stick. I put it of for a few days cause I was just frustrated.

Im happy to report I now have a functional A B and start button!!!! WOOOOO HOOOOO. So now that I know how the wiring stuff basiclly works. Im gonna start on the case for it.
 
WHO IS YOUR MAIN IN SF4?! OMG I DON'T KNOW! It's freaking me out! =P That stick looks so slick, nice job man.

Hey Broken, think you'd be willing to post some tips for using a CnC router to make the stick cases? I'm probably going to get access to one this summer for a project (involving building arcade sticks =P), and was wondering if you can use wood in a CnC router, how hard it is to engrave things, which software is the best to set up the router, etc. Especially if you use one day to day, it seems like you'd have a lot of tips that would help me.
 
I'll help in any way I can, fella.
You can use wood, but you usually have to cut it fairly fast to prevent it from burning. I can't remember whether you're supposed to use single or multi-fluted bits as I don't cut very much wood.
Because wood often comes with slight discrepancies in the thickness and flatness of it it can be a pain to engrave as you can sometimes go to shallow in some sections and too deep in others, making lines bolder in places.
I often use CorelDRAW to do all the vector artwork in and import it through to artpath, which is the software that runs the router. It's a fairly niche program and you need a dongle to run it, but you can probably find a less than legit version if you look hard enough.
I know there's plug-ins for CorelDRAW that let you run a vinyl plotter, so it's a possibility that someone has done the same for a router. I'll see what I can dredge up.

I do have all my original cutpaths in .AI format if you're needing pointers on how to set-up the box design.
 
Meh, I'm thinking of doing a pretty standard wooden box design.

The main thing that it would be is that I was going to make a wood box, use CnC to drill the dowel holes exactly the same, every time, and perfectly aligned. Something cool I think, would be to engrave our "club logo" on the backside of the box. I'm not just making one, although I might run a few "special designs" for myself, and see if I can add any engraving to make them more special.

What do you think about using acrylic for the entire box? Is it cheaper than wood? Is it easy to get and manipulate into a box? How do you fasten them together? IMO, I'm mainly working with wood, and there doesn't seem to be much info on acrylic. Maybe I should take a second look at slagcoin...
 
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