Buttons for tact switches?

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Buttons for tact switches?

Post by FA-MAS » Mon May 03, 2010 2:03 pm

What do you guys use to make buttons for tact switches so that the switches can be hidden behind whatever material?

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Re: Buttons for tact switches?

Post by bassmasta » Mon May 03, 2010 5:32 pm

Acrylic can work.
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Re: Buttons for tact switches?

Post by FA-MAS » Mon May 03, 2010 5:46 pm

That's what I'd like to do exactly actually, but how do i form it into that shape professionally?

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Re: Buttons for tact switches?

Post by jdmlight » Mon May 03, 2010 5:57 pm

For the most part, people just reuse buttons from controllers. If you have a bunch of leftover PS1/N64/SNES/whatever controllers, reuse those buttons.

That's the easiest and has the best likelihood for looking nice. :wink:
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Re: Buttons for tact switches?

Post by FA-MAS » Tue May 04, 2010 11:24 am

Unfortunatley, I don't have any buttons from controllers. I'm gonna need to make/buy something. Any suggestions?

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Re: Buttons for tact switches?

Post by neverused » Tue May 04, 2010 12:41 pm

Pm Hackmodford, he had a good design for buttons that has since been lost in one of his logs. The photo got deleted from his Genesis thread, but it seemed to work really well.

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Re: Buttons for tact switches?

Post by FA-MAS » Tue May 04, 2010 1:44 pm

Found these that I'll probably end up using.

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Re: Buttons for tact switches?

Post by ishowernaked » Sun May 23, 2010 4:39 pm

they look nice, but how big are they?
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Post by hailrazer » Sun May 23, 2010 6:20 pm

ishowernaked wrote:they look nice, but how big are they?
Bout the size of N64 official green/blue buttons.
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