doesi87, that sounds like a great idea to use the controller as the power buttons
doesi87, that sounds like a great idea to use the controller as the power buttons
Great Idea, my plan was to use the power/reset that are on the units to power on. But I was thinking about doing a remote setup with one of the Controller to remote power on.
I think a lot of the ideas I have are pretty complex so I will probably be asking for help before I destroy anything.
Ok, not much to update. Just been fiddling around with some ideas and trying different things out. Tonight I think I might do some more Sketchup work and figure out how to build the mobo tray and positioning of the drives and wires.
Here's some tinkering work so far: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UdxIJS1-NI
I have the drive hooked up to an ATX PSU so I have to hold the button down to get it to stay on, and the reset switch is hooked up to the CDROM drive to open and close. one of the 3 units will control power and CDROM. Then the other 2 will just have the LEDs blink for HDD activity.
And I have a second unit that will be on its way here in a few days +rep to Spawn-Inc for helping me locate another NES shell to use.
All right. Another update, been a while.
Thanks again to Spawn-Inc for the NES shell. It arrived today. And it lasted about 5 minutes in one piece.
Before I got my hands on a screwdriver:
And after if found the stupid screwdriver. (I hate cleaning my workstation, can never find anything after I do.)
I'm going back to mark and cut the bottom and top of each NES now. Maybe another update in a few hours.
Good to see this mod back on the road. How many more Nes's do you need?
Need a sig
I just need to find 1 more NES. Probably be running around ebay for another here in a while after I get the other 2 cut a fitted together. I'll probably have to wait to get the guts until after Christmas after a nice bonus from work.
I know how you can set up the controller to act as the power and reset buttons.
Open the NES controller, look at the PCB or whatever, and figure out which wires the start and select buttons go to. After this...
Take a normal power and reset button so that you can get the leads and motherboard plug-ey-thingy and wire four of the pins (two for power, two for reset). Find the corresponding wires for the controller for the select and start buttons and make sure that the pins on the connectors NES-side match up.
If you wire it like this, the NES controller will be the only power button for the computer, but that could be a cool security feature. Don't want somebody turning on/off your computer? Unplug the controller.
Also, you won't have to modify the controller in any way. Nifty.
EDIT:
Oh, if you want me to try and come up with a diagram, I can find a NES controller to completely butcher. One of my buddies has about one million of them (give or take ten thousand). Then all I'd have to do is show you a diagram of what pins to rewire NES-side.
Last edited by Omega; 06-15-2007 at 04:33 AM.
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awesome, glad to see its there. that box sure got beat up though. hope it gives you enough work until you find the next one.
just a semi-side note are the guts worth anything? do you have a proper nes powersupply? does the system i gave you work?
CPU: Q6600 G0 3.5GHz@1.4v (4.2GHz max) / 4790k 4.8ghz @1.265v
GPU: 9800GTX /GTX780 hydrocopper
Ram: Samsung 4GB /gskill 16gb DDR3 1600
Mobo: EVGA-NF68-A1 680i (P32) /AsRock Extreme6
PSU: Enermax Galaxy 850Watt /EVGA 850 G2
HDD: OCZ 120GB Vertex4, Samsung evo 840 250GB
LCD: Samsung 32" LN32A450, Samsung 226BW 22" wide
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You know, I was so excited to get it and start working on the case again I never even tested it. What do you guys use for power up there in Canada. 220 or 110, I've never even driven through Canada and I used to live right on the border when I lived in Maine. I do have a power adapter if it will work with the guts from this one I'll check it out. Whats the worst that could happen? (As the house burns down, oops)
Great idea Omega. I was thinking about using the existing power and resets, but i do like the security feature that would offer. I was thinking of wiring in the front USB slots but this might be cool too. hmm lots of thinking to do. I got plenty of time to think about this though.
You could also pull my approach. Check to see if your mobo has a power-on by keyboard feature. I have mine set to power-on by password
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