Monday, October 6, 2014

Day Chuu - The Shopping List

Tools:

$10 - Soldering Iron + Solder
$70 - Jigsaw + Fine tooth blades (for metal or plastics)
Free- Drill + Drill bits + 1 in Hole Saw
Free - C - Clamps
$10 - Hot glue gun + Hot glue

Sub-Total $90

Materials


$5 - Pine shelving wood
$3 - Hardboard
$13 - Acrylic Sheet (0.080 in)
$8 - Frosted Glass Spray
$5 - Matte Black Spray Paint
$5 - Con-Tact paper
$8 - Aluminium Knobs

Sub-Total $50

Electronics
$1 ea - 12 ppr Mechanical Encoders (No detents) 25mm shaft x2
$1 ea - 24 ppr Mechanical Encoders (No detents) 25mm shaft x2
22 c ea - Blue LEDs x20
22c ea - Red LEDs x5
60c ea - 10kohms Resistors x10
65c ea - TIP31C Transistor x 3
$4 ea - 3.5mm Audio cable x1
$25 ea - Arduino Leonardo x1

Sub-Total $ 42


Push Buttons Buttons:
$7 - 44mm Square buttons x4
$8 - 23.4mm x 33.0mm Rectangular buttons x2
$7 - 25mm Small Square button x1

Cool thing was, they came with Cherry Switches. After some testing, I also figured out that the springs are 150g, with 50g switches; pretty close to the 100g 50g arcade standard.

Sub-Total $50

Total: $232
Total without tools: $142 (not bad)


2 comments:

  1. Hello there!

    Currently i'm working to build my own custom SDVX controller and i want to use and arduino leonardo too.. I'm waiting for the spare parts now so it would be very nice seeing that you have all the required components how it goes...

    Can you please post your build worklog?, thanks!

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  2. Could you please share where you sourced the 44mm buttons? Thanks!

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