Mine came in the mail yesterday and holy smokes is it gorgeous! I’ve been using it since t came in and it works great!
I got mine on the 29th, I think. It’s a solid piece, doesn’t feel fragile at all. Grips the controller male end very firmly. I think it uses a micro USB B. At first I thought I’d have to go get a cable for it, but my phone uses the same thing. 😀 After plugging that in, I found it worked right off the bat for most applications. There’s a Virtual Boy-related program I have that it didn’t initially work for, but XPadder got it working without any fuss. It even works without batteries. There really are no other controllers with the same layout as a VB controller, so this is the best option.
For those of you who want to use XPadder, you can use these attached images I edited to look nice and work for it. One is full color, the other saves a few KB by using a 256-color palette (in case 30 KB matters to you, LOL).
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And a Power Glove one just for fun! Tracker as X,Y, with Z as slider bar. Fingers mapped to analog as well. Normal gamepad buttons on the wrist pad as digital buttons and the numbers mapped to equivalent keyboard buttons. Adjustable options via virtual COM port.
I went a bit thick on the housing walls so its large but bomb proof.
And now the connector model. Once I’ve tested it and built some, I’ll post the model. Then the entire VB controller USB adapter can be built from new parts.
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It came out pretty nice. Fits nice and snug too.
Its carbon fiber FDM so very strong.
Model also attached.
Here’s the d-sub male pins used:
I trim the crimp end a bit on the d-sub pins. Be careful after trimming them as they can be razor sharp and cut you. They insert very tightly into the 3D printed connector as designed. Then bond the back with an epoxy to help them stay in place.
Some excess material in a channel was causing the slight gap in the assembled unit in the picture above. Fixed now.
