Asrael 
For a while now I've been collecting maker-y tools and not had much to do with them. Soldering iron, 3D printer, paints and dremel and sandpaper and snips and all kinds of crap. But now, I've gotten really excited about the idea of making my own Hitbox controller!
For those unfamiliar, instead of the big joystick you'd find on normal fighting game controllers, there's just four buttons that you press to input directions. Given that I grew up on PC games, I've always had a hard time grappling with the joystick, and a little bit of playing around with similar things has convinced me I want one. Image attached is a Hitbox, though it's not my photo and it's smaller than the one I'm making.
Since they're all sold out or backordered to hell, I found a few projects that I'm going to cobble together to make one myself! Getting a little ATMega32U4 microcontroller for it instead of the Brook fighting boards (since they're also impossible to get) and some Gateron low profile switches.
Though since I'm not very experienced, if anyone has any advice on good parts or good practice I'm happy to hear it. In particular, I feel a little sketchy about soldering the button switches to the microcontroller GPIO holes via a wire... that feels like it's going to be annoying if any of them ever die and need replaced. But the form factor I'm working with here is pretty skinny so I don't know if trying to use jumper cables is a good idea. #crafting #fightinggames #hitbox
For those unfamiliar, instead of the big joystick you'd find on normal fighting game controllers, there's just four buttons that you press to input directions. Given that I grew up on PC games, I've always had a hard time grappling with the joystick, and a little bit of playing around with similar things has convinced me I want one. Image attached is a Hitbox, though it's not my photo and it's smaller than the one I'm making.
Since they're all sold out or backordered to hell, I found a few projects that I'm going to cobble together to make one myself! Getting a little ATMega32U4 microcontroller for it instead of the Brook fighting boards (since they're also impossible to get) and some Gateron low profile switches.
Though since I'm not very experienced, if anyone has any advice on good parts or good practice I'm happy to hear it. In particular, I feel a little sketchy about soldering the button switches to the microcontroller GPIO holes via a wire... that feels like it's going to be annoying if any of them ever die and need replaced. But the form factor I'm working with here is pretty skinny so I don't know if trying to use jumper cables is a good idea. #crafting #fightinggames #hitbox
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