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Homemade Guitar Hero / Frets on Fire controller how to |
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Written by Stuyo
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Thursday, 10 January 2008 |
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Part 2 - Buttons
The next thing necessary is a panel, that will hold all buttons in place. I used a scrap piece of red acrylic and started the drawing and cutting process:
Here is a shot of a pile of red trash, left from the cutting. Someone want a whiff?!
And now a test - unbelievable, but true, everything fits!!!
And now - time for a second panel. It will support the printboards of the buttons, the conduct surfaces for the LEDs and will support the buttons:
The buttons have to be fixed in some way to fit to the panel and work as intended. That is the reason I glued some more acrylic to the back side of them, this time black, 2mm:
The printboards are mounted to the back panel:
A test to see how the buttons match:
And here is the final product:
As you may have already noticed, there were till now only 4 button printboards, 1 short. I will get it from here:
After the abuse here is the fifth button:
And the back panel with mounted printcircuits:
Placing the contact rubbers for the buttons:
And here is the whole button block at this stage:
