Hello all,
I've built a few joysticks and they usually have a handful of buttons. Usually they do nothing more than bridge a power source to a pin on a chip when pushed. These joysticks are for computer and often I'd like to be able to quickly remap the buttons for different games which may not support doing so in software. I thought of a sort of plug and socket system but I'm not sure what my options are there. Essentially after each switch I have a plug wire which can be inserted into a socket connected to any leg of the receiver PCB.
I've thought about banana plugs, rca jacks, and audio jacks.
I'd like to keep the design compact and certainly wouldn't want to use something like breadboard with jumper cables as those are very prone to wiggling lose.
So, given these sockets and jacks would be a few inches apart which is a good compact solution? I don't know much about my hardware options. If you wanted to make a small plugboard given an area of about an inch and a half by three what hardware would you select? My joystick has 6 buttons meaning 6 jacks and 6 sockets.
Keep in mind, I'd like to keep these sockets and jacks outside the board for very easy access.
Sincerely,
Pixel_Outlaw
I've built a few joysticks and they usually have a handful of buttons. Usually they do nothing more than bridge a power source to a pin on a chip when pushed. These joysticks are for computer and often I'd like to be able to quickly remap the buttons for different games which may not support doing so in software. I thought of a sort of plug and socket system but I'm not sure what my options are there. Essentially after each switch I have a plug wire which can be inserted into a socket connected to any leg of the receiver PCB.
I've thought about banana plugs, rca jacks, and audio jacks.
I'd like to keep the design compact and certainly wouldn't want to use something like breadboard with jumper cables as those are very prone to wiggling lose.
So, given these sockets and jacks would be a few inches apart which is a good compact solution? I don't know much about my hardware options. If you wanted to make a small plugboard given an area of about an inch and a half by three what hardware would you select? My joystick has 6 buttons meaning 6 jacks and 6 sockets.
Keep in mind, I'd like to keep these sockets and jacks outside the board for very easy access.
Sincerely,
Pixel_Outlaw