Project diva homemade controllers

Hi, I'm completely new to Project Diva and this community. My friend got me into it and I've only been playing since Jan 2021

Even though I've only been playing for a short time, I've already made a custom controller. Just wanted to share

It's a 3D printed case that I made myself






Hope you guys like it!

 

Reminds me that I still need to finish my 3D printer...

 

Wooow, pretty massive for a 3D-print! My appreciation! :)

 

Not related, but Linus finally reviewed this:



If it's cheaper and actually sensitive enough it might make a nice all-in-one diva controller. Just saying.

 

Oh the DIVA Pro Controller (ZhouSensor 2.0) some of my diva friend on facebook group tried it and they love it and the TOUCH Slider update for it I heard is wonderful.

 

I won't recommend this. It has no support for dedicated controller mode and arcade slider mode. Also due to its structure and firmware DRM it's difficult if not impossible for 3rd party to make custom firmware that implements those features.

On the other hand Divaller has full support for CFW and there is already custom firmware for arcade slider mode.

Also I don't think anyone is talking about this controller on Reddit. Where did you see that "everybody cries about latency and poor pcb"?

 

Here may be not everyone still knows that LKP slider by @Doctopus and his Project Alpaca is the best controller :P

 

Maybe :P

 

What's this?? Not seen it previewed anywhere, it just popped up on ebay...

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/124712656371

 

Seems like the normal mode is hori normal mode while the "arcade mode" is everybody else's "normal mode". So you get what you paid for (that is if it's possible to get it for the $50 "MSRP").

 

Hello, I'm a complete noob to controller building, but it's a passion of mine and electronics are so cool. I made my Arcade Future tone controller last year and it's pretty nice. I used the brook ps4 fighting board for ease of use. I currently use buttons for the touch sliders, but I really want to make a touch slider. I've tried so many different things, buying an adafruit touch capacitor. Trying to connect that to the brook fighting board inputs. I tried to connect copper tape. And I'm so lost now that I need to find some kind of help. Could anyone please point me in the right direction what to buy to make a touch sensor that works with PS4?

 

adafruit touch capacitor, as I know, as I understand, it's not a standalone device - it's just a component for a arduino or some other microcontrollers that will manage how that adafruit touch capacitor will work and what it will do. And when you will connect it to arduino - you can make some program that will work with adafruit touch capacitor componect and with copper tape connected to it. I never thought about it before, but now I have theory that it's possible to make touch slider even for brook using all that components that was described above and may be the touching the slider can be transposed to pins of arduino that will be connected to brook, for example you will use L and R, one of the connectors or that button on brook you connect to GND of arduino, and other side you connect to pins of arduino that will work as buttons pressed. When you move on slider LEFT - arduino will pull down pin that connected to L, when RIGHT - pull down pin that connected to R and it will work as button press. You need at first create some test program to verify that pulling down the pin of arduino will work and then can make something more serious with connection of adafruit touch capacitor and other components.
Theoretically, I just never thought about it before, but I think it can work.

 

Could someone link me the ardurino I would need to purchase to make this work? thanks

 

You can buy any Arduino Nano or Arduino Micro (if you have usb-ttl converter to flash it, because it has no USB) on aliexpress or somewhere locally, because it's not a limited product and can be found anywhere. But if you want - that's the one that I bought sometime ago, https://a.aliexpress.com/_9J1NJj , the only difference that I bought it year ago for $2$, but now it costs 4$ because all ICs now become more expensive, but you can find other.

And may be you understood what I said above about buttons, because I do not know how it work on PS4, never played it, as I understand it uses not only L1/R1 but may be L2/R2 for <- -> and -><- slider moves, so you'll need to describe all that moves in program and connect all pins to all buttons that will be used.
In test program you can write something very simple that will automatically pull up and pull down some pins as you need or connect buttons that you use now to arduino and write same program, something like "if L1 button pressed - pull down pin that connected to L1" and you can test and understand does it work right and does it responds as quick as you need.

 

Thank you for all the help, so to recap I need to get the nano mini USB board and connect the usb cable it comes with the the brook fighting board? then wire up the touch sensor to that nano board and connect it to my computer, download Arduino software and watch some tutorials on how to code with it? This code will then transfer to my PS4? One more question, how does the USB cable from the micro controller connect to the brook ps4 fighting board? I don't really see a port the usb cable can plug into

 

Not exactly. USB here is only easier way to flash (program) microcontroller on the board and that's all, in other cases it needs only for powering device, but even then it's not necessary, because it has separate pins to power-up board. So that is why I write above about other arduino without USB (arduino micro) if you'll find it, may be it will be a little bit cheaper, but you need USB-TTL converter or USBASP programmer to flash it.

I do not know about brook cable, may be if it use mini-usb cable too - you can use it to flash arduino, but then, after that, it will be a separated device that only will use brook power (+5V, if it possible to take it from there - you can use it, because it will be much convenient to use) and will operate with slider and will be connected to some button pins of brook.

Yes, may be, you even can find something already done examples that doing something same or exactly same what you need, I just didn't study situation with adafrout touch component, so can you search something about it.

No, nothing will be transfered to PS4, but only to arduino.

I not really understand this question, if you can show your brook fighting board - may be I'll understand. But to say simply, as I understand, you connecting brook over USB to PS4 with USB type B/mini-B/micro-B or something and you can use this cable (if it use same type of connector) to flash arduino, and then, after that you can power up arduino without USB just with Vin/GND (7-12v input) or 5V/GND (stable 5v input), because it will be standalone device that will work by itself and output pins of arduino will be connected to your brook. May be that's all.

 

I tried to send a picture of my board and it won't send, do you have discord by any chance so I can send you a picture of the board and touch sensor?

 

I ordered an Ipega Mini Mega39 controller from Amazon Japan and ship to US. The cost including international shipping is about USD $88. Cheaper than buying from Ebay. Well, I hope so. This is my first order from Amazon Japan. If this works out, I found a new place to waste time and $$$.

I saw it reviewed on youtube.

 

woooooow, are you lucky man :PPP

 

MPR121 cap touch boards can be purchased from Amazon for around $5-$6 for 3. Same chip is used on the Adafruit boards, I think, but much cheaper. The boards appear to clones of a SparkFun board. I was thinking about making a slide until I saw the Ipega mini.