That's a creative use of an additional breadboard there Mobsie.
You're making amazing progress. Are you having any issues with bus noise?

John

I've hit a bit of a problem today. Ordered the PCBs yesterday and they were rejected by JLCPCB so I will need to think about what to do next. I could seperate out all the boards but it will dramatically increase the costs as we'll go from ordering 3 PCBs for a full set of controllers to having to or...

Looking good there!

That reminds me. I should write out a copy of the Wizzard Demo tape to actual tape and give it a try on real hardware

Dick Smith telling me all about my new computer!

John

Man, as someone who always struggles with breadboard, I love the heck out of that.
Awesome work there! Do you plan to do a PCB once you have it working to your satisfaction?

Thanks Tom and Mamejay.
I'll definitely update GitHub after these are tested. At the moment, while I'm pretty confident they'll work, I'm pretty sure I'll need to do a third spin to get some minor sizing issues resolved. Paper printouts cut out can only get me so far

John

Hmm. Looks like my last post got lost.
I may be "showing off" here a little, but I merged the top and bottom boards of the joysticks onto one PCB and then doubled them!
You can now get both controllers out of 3 PCBs.

Bring on payday and I'll order these. John

So I've rejiggered it so there are Left Hand and Right Hand PCBs. The fire buttons are also "break off" components.

I'll get these ordered up next pay cycle, so in just over a week

John

Thanks guys.

John

Scratch that, after a clean and a replacement of the LED the port expander DOES now work...
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Hmm.
Is there anything you can actually do with it???

JOhn