568 making the impossible possible...kinda

[Draqo]

So there's a lot of ideas thrown around on these forums about having a PS2 controller for a controller for the OI. Well today my team spent the day packing up to get ready for San Jose while I fiddled with one and rigged it all up. Analogs work great and are 2ko - 8ko range, we got 100Ko POTS replacements for them too incase it doesn't work out too well with their current stock config. Most of the time was the soldering part, directly onto the circuit board. Why mess with the original PS2 pinout when it's easier to solder and just rig up each part to the specific DB15 pins?

So yes, at this point our team HAS a PS2 controller for the OI. Tuning the solder job will be done tomorrow before we leave, so far our team's been great, stressful, but great non the less.

[personal gloat]
Here's the new planned layout for our dashboard port sniffer program:
-Automatic calibration for joysticks
-Selective control types
-PWM color display
-Camera display
-Software shifting (for preventing an amp spike)
-Other more features that you'll have to come to San Jose to see.
[/gloat]