Xbox Adaptive Controller device makers

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realy cool

Thanks for the reply. The quadstick is good but all I need is to be able to work one of the sticks and I already have the accessible controller

I looked over this and it looks like Chronusmax adapts the quadstick to the xbox 360 or xbox one. So hopefully this helps more.

http://www.quadstick.com/shop/cronusmax

I am new, so hello. So when I saw this thread I definitely wanted to say hi because I am an adaptive controller user as well as device maker myself. I end up using the adaptive controller differently all the time because of my condition. I have Ehlers-Danlos
syndrome and every day can be different for me. Some days I need to use foot switches to operate the majority of my buttons, and sometimes I need to use a thumb clicker button but every day is a little bit different.

My adaptive controller needs to be kind of flexible based on how bad of a day I'm having, sometimes I need to operate it with my feet, sometimes you need to operate it was my elbows and sometimes I can use my hands or palms but every day can be a little
bit different. I ended up building a completely custom set up using a variety of off-the-shelf hardware that is pretty cheap. I wanted to get adaptive buttons from the store on Xbox.com with the majority of them are $65 apiece and I didn't have $2000 or more
for a full set up.

Considering the amount of buttons that are typically used in most games it is really hard to make an affordable adaptive set up unless you go off the beaten path and look at custom building something. My own adaptive set is built using a combination of MAME
arcade buttons and other cheap gear, and tattoo machine foot switches. Obviously I needed to do a little bit of tweaking for some of the control devices, but it was mostly just wiring 3.5 mm mono jacks to buttons to 2 wires, which I asked for help doing.

So for me most of the ready-made adaptive buttons were way too expensive like I said, I couldn't afford $65 per button so I ended up coming up with a super cost-effective way of building out an entire adaptive controller really cheap. So I ended up using
a MAME / JAMMA arcade stick for my left and right analog sticks. They are wired to usb converter boards that run to the left and right usb for the controller. They also by chance have 3 buttons on each side extra so A B X Y and the menu and start buttons
are all wired to th boards.

After that I just had to create left and right trigger and bumper (which were my worst enemies trying to use a real xbox controller. I was never able to comfortably use the trigger buttons or bumper buttons on the Xbox controller because my physical disability
makes strength in my hands a difficulty. Beyond that I could never pull the triggers repeatedly because it hurt my arthritis too much. Despite the fact that I'm still really young my physical disability causes me a ton of pain and difficulty moving so for
me my data set up needed to be really flexible day-to-day so sometimes I can operate it with different parts of my body hour to hour depending on how bad my dislocations are at that point.

You can buy a MAME to USB converter boards with wiring and buttons In a package pretty cheaply including the analog stick for about 10 or 15 bucks. It will give you enough buttons and an analog stick for half of the controls. I ended up buying two converter
boards which gave me two analog sticks one for left and right, and it ended up giving me about 20 buttons that didn't need to be wired because they have push on adapters.

I also ended up buying mono 3.5 mm wired lugs, which looks like a long wired headphones set without the headphones on one end, it just has two different U-shaped lugs which you can either put directly to the contact points of the button, or you can cut
and wire around to different contact points. I chose to do the latter of the two but I did need some help wrapping the wire around the small post in the foot switch I was doing it to.

I needed to do to modify the buttons to be used with the adaptive controller was by a bunch of 3.5 mm mono on off switch lug cords from RadioShack. If you use a 3.5 mm mono on off switch cord you're just wiring to the button directly and it seems most
MAME or JAMMA buttons are ready digital and work native with just plugging them directly in the other 3.5 mm mono plug.

So I took photos the entire time during the build of this device and I'm planning on putting together a video showing how it was put together, it looks complicated but it's actually pretty simple to assemble yourself. Considering I'm physically disabled
and have a hard time using my hands I managed to do it pretty well considering.

The tattoo machine footswitch buttons I created were actually even simpler to rewire because a tattoo foot switch already comes with a quarter-inch mono on / off Jack. The only problem is that the Jack is a quarter-inch instead of 3.5 mm. The easy way to
fix that is to use one of the RadioShack 3.5 mm mono lug records and replace the entire wire because the foot switch itself has two spots the wires can literally just be wrapped around you don't need to solder them or anything like that. Lucky design honestly
because the tattoo foot switches are just simple stainless steel switches and there is to post that stick out of them all you have to do is attach one lug to one, and one look to the other side and you can actually create a really nice set up.



Here are a couple photos of my setup.

The first photo is the entire bunch of pieces except I have about 6 of the footswitches. Some days I need to do a majority of my playing with the footswitches instead of the buttons of the adaptive controller box. So on those days I just use the left and
right sticks on the box and control all the buttons with my foot switches and the profile select on the adaptive controller to mod with foot switches do what.





In that picture it only shows 2 footswitches but I have 6 of them, those are probably the most useful because they can be places around me laying down or in my wheelchair to touch my feet, elbows, chin, face, legs or other places. They only need a minor
amount of pressure to trigger them, so they also are pretty sensitive for people that have some weakness. They are not hair triggers, but they are pretty close. The only difference is these footswitches only cost about 3 -5 each on ebay.

Next is a close up my my physical therapy controller. I use this thumb button on good days when I can do a small amount of physical therapy. The button is held in a weighted metal container so holding it exercises my hands and arms. It is a little bit heavy
so on one of my arms I needed to use a wrist strap to stop me from dropping it when I can't hold it anymore. They would not be good for people that are regularly weak in their hands, but for people that have good and bad days they can help exercise while doing
something fun like playing a game.





The footswitch is also great for your hands if you can't really have consistent strength but you have enough strength to hold your hands on a table or flat surface slightly. What I do is place it under my hands and rest my hand over it, when I need to press
the switch I let the weight of my hand fall to the table,then I curl my hand slightly to have my fingers slightly over the switch again. Here is an image of that one.





Those are a few of the controls I built for the xbox adaptive controller. Anyone that is having a hard time with their adaptive setup and can't afford to go all out on $2k worth of buttons feel free to contact me for more info on how to build something like
this. I am happy to help in any way I can. I would even consider building more of these switches for people people to buy if people were really interested in them just let me know. I know for me price was such a big issue I was literally trying to play games
with only 2 or 3 buttons clicks for months until I figured this out. Hopefully this post will actually help some other adaptive controller users out there struggling right now.

If anyone wants more info on my build or how to make custom controls for adaptive controller get in touch.

Cheers



(My xbox g tag is the same)

You can actually submit this kind of feesback at xboxideas.uservoice.com