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this is my idea for an integrated, selfmade gamepad for the p800:
1. take the flippad - replacement (the little plastic part that comes with the p800 and that you mount on your p800 if you remove the flippad) and integrate some dip-buttons, like displayed in the image.



2. now it needs two more things:
a clever electronics engineer should design the driving electronics and a clever programmer should programm a driver that provides an interface or simulates button presses / wheel activities.

any comments ?

update:
look at this micro-joystick - the perfect thing for this gamepad-idea:

http://www.smk.co.jp/smke/new/html/595csc-e.html
further idea: using the ir-port would avoid constructing a bottom connector. and probably its simpler to program. (i dont know.. is there an c++ interface for the bottom connector at all?) (with my limited knowledge: every button has its own square-wave frequency that is transmitted via the ir-port. the software driver then could simply count the frequency received by the ir-port and can so identivy wich button was pressed. the frequencies of the buttons could be determined simply by using different resistors.



[ This Message was edited by: herc on 2003-06-30 17:03 ]
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Posted: 2003-06-27 14:06:12
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no comment ? and i took 15 minutes of my livetime to draw the sketch
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Posted: 2003-06-27 16:18:52
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great idea cant see why icant be done??
Nice one
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Posted: 2003-06-27 16:22:11
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Yeah I like the idea for those who play games on their P800.
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Posted: 2003-06-27 16:23:15
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[ This Message was edited by: KaSS on 2003-08-04 01:28 ]
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Posted: 2003-06-27 23:12:48
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because if using another flip pressing on the touchscreen wastes many lines of screen-pixels, can be harmful to the touchscreen and works with an undefinable point of pressure. i for myself dismounted the flip the first day i got my p800.

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Posted: 2003-06-28 22:27:41
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[ This Message was edited by: KaSS on 2003-08-04 01:29 ]
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Posted: 2003-06-28 22:56:55
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If you use the flip principle you can only press one button at a time...
So this idea is much better.
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Posted: 2003-06-28 23:35:30
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[ This Message was edited by: KaSS on 2003-08-04 01:29 ]
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Posted: 2003-06-28 23:39:59
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Why not a bluetooth gamepad? Many BT-enabled devices are coming out and some, like the handheld random movement printer are pretty f-ing cool...so anything can be done.

Pair the gamepad and some BT speakers (maybe even a portable BT screen! soon, soon...) and you've got a gaming system. Watch out xbox...
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Posted: 2003-06-29 01:45:40
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