Turn over your hand and find the three human fingers going unused with a conventional controller!
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Yeap that’s a human ear
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are paddles on contemporary controllers just a button which you press with a flat stick, or do they have some kind of analog ability? it’s confusing cos there used to be controllers called paddles which were like a wheel which you turned (i think??)
Just a digital button on the Scuf and Xbox versions. Most people probably don’t have the dexterity to do analog except on their thumb and index finger if that (hello I slit every throat in Snake Eater)
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they are in fact mostly just literal buttons since scuf has won the patent battle on “flexile members” (
), but yeah even those are just pressing underlying digital buttons.
paddle did indeed used to be the term for “analogue knob controller”, presumably because of their origin as controllers for digital table tennis, where the contemporary reference is racing paddle shifters
i think a single pair of larger analogue pulls might be feasible, tho likely force-sensing resistors would suit the task best. i think the ps2 buttons make for a bad study re. analogue bc they seem to go from 0-100 in the space of a hair 7/8ths into the actual tactile button push.
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incidentally does anyone know how MAME’s support of directinput spec blacksheep children “balls spinners and sliders” is for games built around them ? really tempted to take a stab at taito’s modern usb pad but it’s kind of spendy for a moonshot
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I would love to know this for the same reasons
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click “view full comments/discussion” to see dev remarks, reddit’s discussion format fucking sucks. signs point to… maybe ? seems like the OS needs to recognize it as a pointer device for things to work well which is… not super hopeful. neat resource: Spinner Turn Count - BYOAC New Wiki
the kids are discovering mixed input, somebody get the ‘amped about aimpad’ guy on the line
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I’m gonna print these for my preonic
Curious if the pinky keys feel awful being so tall
I open up the model for my dactyl in fusion 360 every few days and get stressed out
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stupid things i want and certainly do not need
https://item.taobao.com/item.htm?spm=a230r.1.14.16.3f544cdfwyjktU
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Kind of shocked that they actually bothered to add the pressure sensitive buttons, thank you
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sad to report retrofighters pads feel like cheap hollow clacky garbage
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Also flex PCBs so questionable durability for the pressure sensitive buttons
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just got a PB in crazy taxi… at the cost of the right trigger 
they’re broken in exactly the same way as in this video, has anyone had good luck repairing them with glue, or should I skip straight to attaching the 3D printed part?
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New part over glue especially when it’s mechanical imo
aw, well thanks for saving me some money
Can anyone recommend a mouse that has a tactile, not audible, clicky scroll wheel? Sometimes when I’m rapidly scrolling through things in my otherwise quiet apartment I get weirdly self-conscious about the nose my scroll wheel makes. I can push a button to disable the clicks but then the scroll wheel is all squirrely.