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- Tue Nov 20, 2007 8:39 pm
- Forum: Technical Questions and Answers
- Topic: Transistors or something...
- Replies: 15
- Views: 6880
- Mon Nov 19, 2007 9:14 pm
- Forum: Technical Questions and Answers
- Topic: Transistors or something...
- Replies: 15
- Views: 6880
I spent about an hour and a half soldering transistors, and resistors, and wiring it all up, and then realized that I stupidly grabbed the wrong box of transistors out of my parts drawer. I used NPN transistors by accident instead of PNP :oops: Might think about buying yourself a solderless breadbo...
- Mon Nov 19, 2007 8:21 pm
- Forum: Technical Questions and Answers
- Topic: Transistors or something...
- Replies: 15
- Views: 6880
Why won't your drawing work? you will need a couple of resistors for each transistor to make it work. You could leave out the resistors and see if the circuit works properly, but no guarantees. R1 (from the site I linked) brings the transistor into its saturation state. R2 isn't required, but it wi...
- Sat Nov 17, 2007 9:09 am
- Forum: Technical Questions and Answers
- Topic: Transistors or something...
- Replies: 15
- Views: 6880
After thinking about it, I realized that my diagram won't work quite right as-is, but it's close, you're going to need to modify it a bit. Look here on what you will need to do to modify it.
- Fri Nov 16, 2007 4:08 pm
- Forum: Technical Questions and Answers
- Topic: Transistors or something...
- Replies: 15
- Views: 6880
Please excuse the horrible drawing, but this might work for you http://img337.imageshack.us/img337/3527/wiringce1.th.jpg This has the guitar string as ground and uses pnp resistors. If this doesn't work, then I guess you'd have to make the string positive and use npn transistors, but that doesn't se...
- Fri Nov 16, 2007 10:13 am
- Forum: Technical Questions and Answers
- Topic: Transistors or something...
- Replies: 15
- Views: 6880
again, correct me if I'm wrong here, but when you say and the buttons don't actually go to the ground, they go to a glop top or something. So each button has two unique contacts. it sounds like you already have a controller that you want to wire your guitar into. Are you certain that the different b...
- Wed Nov 14, 2007 5:28 pm
- Forum: Technical Questions and Answers
- Topic: DVD Drive error on Sony VAIO
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2068
It's Bill the demon from an old mac game of the same name. The author ported it to flash, playable herelifeisbetterwithketchup wrote:BTW: WTF is your avatar?
- Wed Nov 14, 2007 9:38 am
- Forum: Technical Questions and Answers
- Topic: DVD Drive error on Sony VAIO
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2068
- Wed Nov 14, 2007 9:34 am
- Forum: Technical Questions and Answers
- Topic: Transistors or something...
- Replies: 15
- Views: 6880
It might be nice to have a little better description of what you're trying to do. I'm assuming you're building a guitar hero controller and you want to wire it to either a USB controller or a normal playstation 2 controller, is this right? What are you trying to do with this controller, are you tryi...
- Fri Sep 28, 2007 7:21 pm
- Forum: Forum 42
- Topic: Moral Dillema (Involving a GBO)
- Replies: 16
- Views: 5471
- Thu Sep 27, 2007 3:05 pm
- Forum: Technical Questions and Answers
- Topic: Ground help...
- Replies: 17
- Views: 6118
Also, solder won't stick to the board. Is this normal? In fact... solder wont stick to a lot of things I try to solder. There is probably a coating on several parts of the board that you will have to scratch off in order to solder to it. Also, when soldering, don't heat up the solder with your iron...
- Thu Sep 27, 2007 8:15 am
- Forum: Forum 42
- Topic: Moral Dillema (Involving a GBO)
- Replies: 16
- Views: 5471
My personal suggestion would be to just buy another GBO off of ebay to hack apart for the controls. If destroying the controls of a working GBO seems offensive to you, there are usually one or two auctions for broken ones (there is a broken one for sale right now, but it also happens to be more expe...
- Thu Sep 27, 2007 7:46 am
- Forum: Forum 42
- Topic: Glofish, genetically altered fish.
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4325
- Tue Sep 25, 2007 9:45 am
- Forum: Technical Questions and Answers
- Topic: Safety Tips.
- Replies: 16
- Views: 6438
<b>Knife Safety [size=0]dance[/size]</b> Always, but ALWAYS CUT AWAY FROM YOU ! If the blade slips, the stored potential energy in it and your arm will be exerted into the table or empty space instead of into your torso/leg/other important body part. Alternately, with a utility knife, get a deathgr...
- Mon Aug 27, 2007 9:06 am
- Forum: Technical Questions and Answers
- Topic: Which Linux Distro?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4088