WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:06.160 Some of you may remember when we talked about this absolutely wild controller from the same mad lad 00:00:06.160 --> 00:00:09.360 who built a DIY steam deck out of a framework laptop. 00:00:09.360 --> 00:00:14.400 Well, at that time, no one knew that an official Steam Controller 2 was on the horizon. 00:00:14.400 --> 00:00:21.200 So one man, Tommy B, did what Valve wouldn't and DIYed his own Steam Controller 2. 00:00:21.200 --> 00:00:23.840 And guess what? He's here with us today! 00:00:24.640 --> 00:00:33.120 That is so cool, but I gotta ask you, how awkward is it that Valve went and released an official Steam Controller 2 after you did all this work? 00:00:33.760 --> 00:00:37.280 I wouldn't say it's awkward. First off, I think this was a great learning experience for me. 00:00:37.280 --> 00:00:42.400 I learned so much about how controllers work and different wireless protocols and like building a trackpad from scratch. 00:00:42.400 --> 00:00:47.680 Second, I think mine is unique enough to coexist with the Steam product. I think it's got some features that the Steam one doesn't. 00:00:47.680 --> 00:00:51.680 Third off, we all know that Valve products don't exist until they actually exist. 00:00:51.680 --> 00:00:55.280 We were told 2026, but... What does that mean? Exactly, who knows. 00:00:55.280 --> 00:00:59.120 And the last thing is that my controller could do something that the Steam Controller can't do, 00:00:59.120 --> 00:01:02.240 and that is... Splits in half. 00:01:02.240 --> 00:01:06.640 And still works? Still works. Two independent halves communicating to the same dongle. 00:01:06.640 --> 00:01:12.880 That's pretty cool. And the best part is the open source of the design so anyone can build one of these. 00:01:12.880 --> 00:01:16.640 I cannot wait to check this out. Oh, you'll be doing more than checking it out. 00:01:16.640 --> 00:01:22.000 You're gonna build one yourself today. But first, I'll be building a segue to our sponsor. 00:01:25.600 --> 00:01:33.200 This thing is so cool, you guys. 00:01:33.200 --> 00:01:36.240 On the surface, it's the built-in controller from the Steam Deck, 00:01:36.240 --> 00:01:40.000 but hacked together to function standalone, which might sound pretty simple, 00:01:40.000 --> 00:01:45.280 but in practice, it involved using a mix of official Valve parts purchased from iFixit, 00:01:45.920 --> 00:01:52.400 third-party Steam Deck parts, as well as fully custom trackpads and some custom PCBs 00:01:52.400 --> 00:01:56.640 to tie the whole thing together, or apart, as it were. 00:01:57.200 --> 00:02:00.320 The custom PCBs also helped make it a bit more affordable. 00:02:00.320 --> 00:02:07.040 And all of that, that was just the hardware. The software was a completely separate can of worms, which we'll get to later. 00:02:07.040 --> 00:02:11.520 First, for any of the very passionate owners of the original Steam Controller, 00:02:11.520 --> 00:02:16.480 I probably won't need to explain this. But for everybody else, what is the appeal? 00:02:16.480 --> 00:02:22.400 Because it gives me an extra option for my inputs. So now I can draw my tricks if I want to shove it. 00:02:22.400 --> 00:02:25.520 Right, so basically you've got gesture inputs almost. 00:02:25.520 --> 00:02:30.000 Gesture inputs pretty much exactly. Games that don't have maybe native gamepad support? 00:02:30.000 --> 00:02:34.000 Right. You can use it as a mouse, like an actual mouse, and it's pretty accurate to use your thumb. 00:02:34.000 --> 00:02:39.200 And finally, interface navigation. Steam Pig Picture Mode, it's pretty okay. 00:02:39.200 --> 00:02:43.600 But if you ever have to leave it and go to Windows, it can be imperfect. 00:02:43.600 --> 00:02:47.120 It's something we've talked about extensively on our channel before, but it bears repeating. 00:02:47.120 --> 00:02:52.240 It is so cool the way that home 3D printing allows makers to rapidly prototype 00:02:52.240 --> 00:02:57.120 and experiment with different designs. What are the pieces that I'm holding right now? 00:02:57.120 --> 00:03:02.800 Well, I wanted to be able to mess with the ergonomics of the controller. This parallel controller works great if you have a screen in between, 00:03:02.800 --> 00:03:06.000 but with it being so close together, it's not the most ergonomic fit. 00:03:06.000 --> 00:03:12.720 Right. So I've brought a couple things to mess with here. So I can just pull that off, slides in here, slides in there. 00:03:13.280 --> 00:03:16.960 Both fits like that. So you can see there's a slight angle here and then there's an angle here. 00:03:16.960 --> 00:03:20.320 So this actually is probably more similar to how the new Steam Controller will be. 00:03:20.320 --> 00:03:24.480 And then this one is special because I added a battery inside of here. 00:03:24.480 --> 00:03:27.520 So if I put this here, there's also a slight angle it adds. 00:03:27.520 --> 00:03:30.560 Put it in here. You see this light turns on. There's a green light in there. 00:03:30.560 --> 00:03:34.720 So that means both halves are actually charging off of it. And then it adds a little bit of ergonomics to it. 00:03:34.720 --> 00:03:38.240 What do you think is the coolest part of your controller, though? 00:03:38.720 --> 00:03:44.480 Well, I'm kind of a nerd. I'm an electrical engineer. So I really like the fact that they are two separate controllers. 00:03:44.480 --> 00:03:48.960 I think programming them to both send data to the dongle was one of the coolest things that I did. 00:03:48.960 --> 00:03:52.880 As well as actually the trackpad. Designing that from scratch, that was really what made it come together. 00:03:52.880 --> 00:03:57.200 I think that's why no one's really done this project before, is you can't buy a Steam Deck trackpad secondhand. 00:03:57.200 --> 00:04:01.680 Now, I saw some criticism on your last video that a six by six grid 00:04:01.680 --> 00:04:07.520 probably isn't enough to be accurate. But can you walk people through why that's not really how it works? 00:04:07.520 --> 00:04:13.040 It's a six by six grid of electrodes. And each electrode has like a full analog read. 00:04:13.040 --> 00:04:16.400 And so that means a range of about a thousand by a thousand. 00:04:16.400 --> 00:04:20.000 So it's a lot more granular than six by six. So don't worry about it, basically. 00:04:20.000 --> 00:04:23.280 Yeah, don't worry about it at all. You'll find these are plenty accurate. 00:04:23.280 --> 00:04:26.400 I can be very specific with my finger placement. 00:04:28.960 --> 00:04:34.560 What are you thinking? Nothing, nothing, nothing at all. I'm thinking, do I get to build one now? 00:04:34.560 --> 00:04:38.960 Sure. All right, let's do it. So the first thing we need to do then is build a trackpad. 00:04:38.960 --> 00:04:42.320 Yes, we do. I've never done that before. All right, it's not too hard. 00:04:42.320 --> 00:04:45.040 The trackpad's already designed. Really? You may not sound really hard before. 00:04:45.680 --> 00:04:49.040 Designing the trackpad was really hard. Putting it together isn't. 00:04:49.040 --> 00:04:52.320 To be safe, use some of this capton tape. 00:04:52.320 --> 00:04:56.560 And we'll go over the parts that are already pre-soldered just so you don't accidentally desolder them. 00:04:56.560 --> 00:05:00.560 He keeps asking me just in case the answer will change. 00:05:02.720 --> 00:05:07.280 No, I don't solder much. Well, you've done like way more intricate soldering than I've ever done. 00:05:07.280 --> 00:05:12.560 Yeah, but here's the thing. My job is to learn a lot about something 00:05:12.560 --> 00:05:16.080 and get good enough at it to do the video that I'm doing. 00:05:16.880 --> 00:05:20.800 And then by literally that afternoon, I will be working on something else 00:05:20.800 --> 00:05:23.760 that I need to know completely different things for. You run out of space? 00:05:24.880 --> 00:05:28.320 Yep, both the RAM and the long-term storage 00:05:28.320 --> 00:05:31.040 are getting pretty tapped out these days. Okay. 00:05:34.720 --> 00:05:38.160 I don't know if that's a good way to test the hot air gun. Prove it. 00:05:38.160 --> 00:05:41.200 All right, so we're just going to melt it. Pre-tint those pads. 00:05:41.200 --> 00:05:45.440 Yeah. If they don't burn anything. So I will say this is definitely the hardest part 00:05:45.440 --> 00:05:49.520 of building the controller is this part. The reason that, you know, didn't come installed 00:05:49.520 --> 00:05:54.240 is the service I ordered my PCBs made through. They didn't offer that chip as part of their PCB assemblies. 00:05:54.240 --> 00:05:58.240 Okay, well, I'm not going to lie. I think they're tinned, but I'm not sure. 00:05:58.240 --> 00:06:01.280 Only one way to find out, I guess. So I think first thing that we can solder here 00:06:01.280 --> 00:06:06.320 will be the MCUs. They're called the Xiao NRF 52-840C+. 00:06:06.320 --> 00:06:10.000 Oh, cool. So in your video, you said you were limited to micro USB, 00:06:10.000 --> 00:06:17.280 but I see a USB-C connector. Yeah. So in my original video, I used an Adafruit NRF 52-840 board, 00:06:17.280 --> 00:06:21.600 but I've since switched to the Seed Studio one. And this one also has battery connectors. 00:06:21.600 --> 00:06:25.120 We can make use of its internal battery charging circuit. It didn't have to add that. 00:06:25.840 --> 00:06:29.760 And then we still have a bunch of GPIO. Sick. Okay. 00:06:29.760 --> 00:06:35.200 And so we're going to want to keep it as centered as possible. And the way that I like to solder it, 00:06:35.200 --> 00:06:38.240 is to only do one pad first, and then we're going to melt that one on, 00:06:38.240 --> 00:06:43.680 make sure everything is centered, and then we can solder all the pads. Oh, did I mention I'm calling the project open-split deck? 00:06:43.680 --> 00:06:47.680 Oh, cool. The name can still be changed if people have good ideas and want to let me know. 00:06:47.680 --> 00:06:52.160 But that's what I'm going with right now. That is the name on the GitHub. This uses what they call casillated holes. 00:06:52.160 --> 00:06:55.520 So the solder actually goes, or like the pads actually go all the way to the edge. 00:06:55.520 --> 00:06:59.040 And that's what I'm kind of making use of here to be able to solder it down to the PCB 00:06:59.040 --> 00:07:03.760 without the need of like through hole. Important to mention with like the actual steam one coming out. 00:07:03.760 --> 00:07:07.520 Yeah. Is like if you just want to buy a controller to use, like buy that one. 00:07:07.520 --> 00:07:10.640 My project's great and stuff, but like you're going to be someone who enjoys soldering. 00:07:10.640 --> 00:07:14.400 Definitely engineering background, not sales and marketing background right here. 00:07:14.400 --> 00:07:17.760 So for me or I can solder on these, but I'm going to have you solder on that one. Sure. 00:07:17.760 --> 00:07:21.680 On the side, I can flash firmware to it, 00:07:21.680 --> 00:07:25.440 so we can pick up your trackpad and see if it works. So flashing firmware on this is pretty straightforward. 00:07:26.160 --> 00:07:29.840 What you do is there's a little small reset button on here, double click it, 00:07:29.840 --> 00:07:34.960 and then it'll pop up as a flash drive. And it looking for a .uf2 file. 00:07:34.960 --> 00:07:39.440 So I brought it with me, but it's also on the GitHub. You can just go and download it under the release section. 00:07:39.440 --> 00:07:44.400 And this is my left controller, and I can just copy and paste it over. 00:07:45.360 --> 00:07:49.440 And as soon as I do, this will reboot, and you'll see a little red LED turn on, 00:07:49.440 --> 00:07:52.880 and there it is. So now this is the left controller. 00:07:52.880 --> 00:07:57.120 I'm done. Okay. Check my homework. Check your homework. Make sure you didn't bridge anything. 00:07:57.120 --> 00:08:02.000 Looks all connected. Looks good to me. Okay. The one I'm less confident about though, 00:08:02.080 --> 00:08:06.400 the trackpad. Yeah, let's check if that works. So we're going to hook it up with the ribbon cables. 00:08:06.400 --> 00:08:10.080 Okay. So this one actually installs upside down. You'll see more white later. 00:08:10.080 --> 00:08:15.520 Oh, that's wacky. This is the part where we find out what color the magic smoke inside it is. 00:08:15.520 --> 00:08:18.960 The trackpad does take a few seconds to boot up. Uh-huh. It's been a few seconds. 00:08:18.960 --> 00:08:22.080 So. Oh, okay. Damn. Not seeing it. 00:08:23.120 --> 00:08:26.640 Damn. You know what? I'm going to take one more attempt at it, 00:08:26.640 --> 00:08:31.040 and then we'll call it. Okay. 00:08:31.040 --> 00:08:34.640 That was a pretty simple fix. I just went over the edges with the soldering iron. 00:08:34.640 --> 00:08:37.680 Just didn't have enough solder on some of those pads, I think. 00:08:37.680 --> 00:08:41.360 Even the hard stuff, I got to say, is not that hard. 00:08:41.360 --> 00:08:45.200 My soldering on this, on the first side, is really, really bad. 00:08:45.200 --> 00:08:50.000 And then on the second side is only a little bit bad. Like, you'd be able to teach yourself 00:08:50.000 --> 00:08:53.520 how to do this level of complexity, I think, over the course of just this project. 00:08:53.520 --> 00:08:58.640 All right. So we do have a little bit more soldering to do on this. And then we have a really small button for our home. 00:08:58.640 --> 00:09:01.680 It's just the only button that fits. This guy. 00:09:01.680 --> 00:09:04.720 Don't worry, the hard part's over. Also this guy. 00:09:04.720 --> 00:09:07.920 I've got a really small button. It's not that bad, man. 00:09:07.920 --> 00:09:11.360 It's not bad. You're the one who said it's really small. It is really small. 00:09:11.360 --> 00:09:14.960 It is that big. Yeah, you can solder that, right? There's just two tabs on this side. 00:09:14.960 --> 00:09:18.640 Just two little tabs. So it's a little bit off, but actually it does make it easier to solder 00:09:18.640 --> 00:09:21.680 because it's on the side. Okay, so it's a feature, not a bug. 00:09:21.680 --> 00:09:24.800 Exactly. And same thing, we'll do our best 00:09:24.800 --> 00:09:28.720 to keep it as centered as possible when we do solder it on. 00:09:28.720 --> 00:09:33.520 Next, we're moving on to assembling the track pads. Cool. We have these little, I printed them out. 00:09:33.520 --> 00:09:36.800 They're basically the springs. Have you ever taken apart a steam deck before? 00:09:37.440 --> 00:09:40.800 Yes, it's been a long time. So I had to kind of recreate my own. 00:09:40.800 --> 00:09:43.760 So this is actually important that it's printed out of PETG 00:09:44.480 --> 00:09:47.760 because PETG is a little more flexible than PLA. Got it. 00:09:47.760 --> 00:09:51.200 When you buy the case, it comes with all the stuff you need. 00:09:51.200 --> 00:09:54.960 It's a, it's a mod case for a steam deck, which I've pre-cut for you. 00:09:55.600 --> 00:09:58.640 Oh, so nice. You're welcome. Thank you. 00:09:58.640 --> 00:10:01.840 Oh, damn. There's a thumb print inside this controller forever now. 00:10:01.840 --> 00:10:06.000 I was thinking at the end, I might leave this controller with you guys, so it'll be forever imprinted with you. 00:10:06.000 --> 00:10:10.160 So same thing, wind up the notch, stick it down. Try not to push on the chips or the connector. 00:10:10.160 --> 00:10:14.640 Of course, you don't want to break anything. This would be the worst place to possibly break it. 00:10:14.640 --> 00:10:18.240 And what we're going to do too is throw on the ribbon cable, 00:10:18.240 --> 00:10:24.320 or FPC, if you want to be technically correct, because we're not going to be able to access this once we hot glue it to here. 00:10:24.320 --> 00:10:29.040 Got it. Trackpad spring, we're going to stick it on. You'll see one spot has a little kind of dip in it, 00:10:29.040 --> 00:10:32.160 and that's where the ribbon cable is going to come out. Oh, I see it. 00:10:32.160 --> 00:10:35.760 That's crazy. We're just going to hot glue this together. Just going to hot glue it together. 00:10:35.760 --> 00:10:42.480 That's crazy. There's a few reasons for it. First reason is that hot glue is easily accessible. 00:10:42.480 --> 00:10:46.080 And if we need to take it apart again, we can just peel off the hot glue and take it apart. 00:10:46.080 --> 00:10:52.400 If you need to get back into it. Sure can. Second reason is that there's not a lot of force that's actually going to be pulling. 00:10:52.400 --> 00:10:56.880 There's almost no force that'll pull the trackpad off of it. Right. We don't need a lot to hold it on here. 00:10:56.880 --> 00:11:00.080 Right. We could probably get away with double-sided tape if we wanted to. I think it's funny. 00:11:00.080 --> 00:11:03.680 It's kind of a meme that you're like so short on this. But for reference, I'm 5'6". 00:11:03.680 --> 00:11:04.560 That's the thing you say that. 00:11:08.640 --> 00:11:13.360 It was all a setup. This is a huge place where we could save a lot of money as far as the parts go. 00:11:13.360 --> 00:11:16.560 The triggers themselves are like 20 USD, which is a lot, right? 00:11:16.560 --> 00:11:25.040 Because two of them now it's $40 already. Right. But the inside part that houses the magnet is the part that is pretty complex and would be hard to 3D print, 00:11:25.040 --> 00:11:29.600 which is where I may be asking for help. First, we're going to focus on the bumpers. 00:11:29.600 --> 00:11:34.400 So you have your right bumper, I have the left bumper, mine has the D-pad. There is a little modification we have to make here. 00:11:34.400 --> 00:11:40.800 Oh, of course. It's extra wide on the ends. And that's actually to make it lock into place a little better for the steam deck. 00:11:40.800 --> 00:11:45.280 Right. But I have no idea what connector they used on the actual steam deck. 00:11:45.360 --> 00:11:49.680 There's like no part number for it. And we're too wide for them. We're too wide, so we've got to cut off a little bit extra. 00:11:49.680 --> 00:11:53.280 Oh, okay. And this is very easy. Like if you're doing this, don't be scared. 00:11:53.280 --> 00:11:56.400 You can see I just need to aim to cut off that little bit extra. 00:11:56.960 --> 00:12:00.080 And there you go. Nice. It's going to be the same thing on the other side. 00:12:00.080 --> 00:12:05.440 I know. Quality homemade game controllers. We're going to go ahead and install everything into the case here, 00:12:05.440 --> 00:12:08.320 starting with actually the trackpad. Oh, brilliant. 00:12:08.960 --> 00:12:12.160 So the trackpad. I'm going to guess it goes like that. It does exactly do that. 00:12:12.160 --> 00:12:15.520 Nice. Yep, it's not small for your... Sure do. 00:12:15.520 --> 00:12:23.280 That's crazy. And you can get the Prismagic collection at LTTstore.com. 00:12:23.280 --> 00:12:26.400 Next, buttons, because we're going to put in the bumpers. 00:12:26.400 --> 00:12:29.120 There's a little bit of like a clip that holds in the side. 00:12:29.760 --> 00:12:33.120 So you need to have no better word to describe it other than finagle it. 00:12:33.920 --> 00:12:37.360 So I'll get in place. So now each side gets three screws. 00:12:38.000 --> 00:12:42.080 There is some overlap with a couple of the things. So there's a couple of screws we don't install. 00:12:42.080 --> 00:12:49.200 And I just know this because I've memorized it. Tommy B is planning to have a text version of his build guide rather than a video version. 00:12:49.200 --> 00:12:53.760 That'll be coming... Hopefully soon. He has a day job, so whenever he gets to it. 00:12:53.760 --> 00:13:00.240 One thing I like to do personally, just to make my life easier, is connect the button PCB right now. 00:13:00.240 --> 00:13:03.760 You don't seem like the kind of person who likes to make your life easier. Why not? 00:13:03.760 --> 00:13:07.360 Because you built your own controller. I'm willing to do things that are difficult if they're worth it. 00:13:07.360 --> 00:13:13.040 You know what I mean? Right, right, right, right, right, right. The next one goes at the bottom of my little open split deck logo on the corner. 00:13:13.040 --> 00:13:17.040 And that's the long one? Yeah, and that's the right hole. There you go, you caught that one. 00:13:18.000 --> 00:13:21.040 Yeah, this is great. It's really coming together. Awkward question. 00:13:21.920 --> 00:13:24.720 How much am I going to end up paying for one of these that I built myself? 00:13:25.760 --> 00:13:29.600 Right now you're probably sitting around 250 to 300. 00:13:29.600 --> 00:13:34.880 Right. But that would also... You'd wind up with probably enough parts to make more than one. 00:13:34.880 --> 00:13:38.000 I see, right. One thing that's cool about this too is, 00:13:38.000 --> 00:13:42.480 yeah, we're paying a lot more than we would for a regular controller, but we're getting a high quality controller. 00:13:42.480 --> 00:13:44.800 Like we've got the aftermarket Gilly kit sticks now. 00:13:45.520 --> 00:13:49.280 Let's do a little more soldering. Solder on the battery connector. 00:13:50.000 --> 00:13:53.600 I pre-wired them a little bit for you. And they're going to be pretty long. 00:13:53.600 --> 00:13:58.480 So we're going to solder to, we have a plus and minus. Just to make sure you line up your black to minus, your red to plus. 00:13:58.480 --> 00:14:01.760 We're actually going to wind up cutting them because we're going to also solder in a switch. 00:14:01.760 --> 00:14:05.360 We're going to also go ahead and add some safety hot glue. Is that different from regular hot glue? 00:14:05.360 --> 00:14:08.400 Yeah, yeah, this one keeps the battery safe. We're just going to go over it with some hot glue. 00:14:08.400 --> 00:14:14.080 This helps insulate it and also keep us from potentially accidentally ripping them off. 00:14:14.080 --> 00:14:17.680 It does lead into one of the quirks of this device and that it needs to be on to charge. 00:14:17.680 --> 00:14:23.520 Originally, I wasn't going to have a power switch at all. I just have it go into like a sleep mode like most electronic devices do. 00:14:23.520 --> 00:14:28.800 There's not a physical flipping switch. But one of the issues I ran into is it's actually the hall effect sticks. 00:14:28.800 --> 00:14:35.600 They draw power when it's in sleep mode. And I ran out of GPIO pins to use for something that could control the power. 00:14:35.680 --> 00:14:39.600 Got it. That's for future Tommy to deal with. Yeah, future Tommy to deal with. 00:14:39.600 --> 00:14:46.240 Yeah, screw that guy. And we'll have a lot more pins to work with, which will let us enable things like, you know, turning on and off power. 00:14:46.240 --> 00:14:52.400 This is probably a little in the weeds right now. I'm thinking there might be some extras over at LMG.GG slash Floatplane 00:14:52.400 --> 00:14:56.400 that didn't make it to the YouTube cut. So we'll see you guys over there. 00:14:56.400 --> 00:15:00.800 All right, next, I prefer to cut the red wire. That's going to be your positive. 00:15:00.800 --> 00:15:04.240 Yeah, bomb defusal tips. Always cut the red wire. 00:15:04.240 --> 00:15:08.480 Always cut the red wire. That's what they say. Not to keep making my projects sound awesome, 00:15:08.480 --> 00:15:11.840 but this might be the most jank part. It's just lining up. 00:15:11.840 --> 00:15:16.560 The screen is really difficult. It doesn't line up well, just, you know, by default. 00:15:16.560 --> 00:15:19.680 And so I'm going to solder one of the holes. Solder a hole. 00:15:19.680 --> 00:15:24.240 Yeah, just one of them. The holes? Yeah, the through hole where the, sorry, like these. 00:15:24.240 --> 00:15:28.400 Oh, you're spinning that way. And you're going to have to angle it to kind of get it in there. 00:15:28.400 --> 00:15:32.400 Oh, yeah. And then it rotates down. Oh, yeah. Make sure the pins are coming through. 00:15:32.400 --> 00:15:35.840 This is the part where I mean it's a little jank. Dude, we're close. 00:15:35.840 --> 00:15:38.880 Very close. I can smell it. Wait, no, that's the leaded solder. 00:15:39.760 --> 00:15:44.240 Take a deep breath. These are cool. They're not your typical vibration motors. 00:15:44.240 --> 00:15:47.680 These are actually called LRA, which is a linear resonating actuator. 00:15:47.680 --> 00:15:51.200 It's got a baby solenoid in there that pushes forward and back. 00:15:51.200 --> 00:15:55.600 Right. Rather than an offset weight on a motor. Currently, my best place I have to install it 00:15:55.600 --> 00:16:00.320 is just in between this back button and the ribbon connector for the track button. 00:16:00.320 --> 00:16:03.760 OK, so here's where our bougie vibration motor goes. 00:16:03.760 --> 00:16:07.360 It is a bougie vibration motor. They're more expensive than a typical vibration motor. 00:16:07.360 --> 00:16:11.920 We're going to install our batteries real quick. Cool. Grab a battery, put it into the connector. 00:16:11.920 --> 00:16:16.000 Yeah, puncture the battery first, right? Don't puncture the battery. Well, how do you get the energy out of it then? 00:16:16.560 --> 00:16:20.000 Battery safety is a really important thing when it comes to lithium ions. 00:16:20.000 --> 00:16:24.720 I'm sure this is not the first time people have heard this. But for these batteries that I source specifically, 00:16:24.720 --> 00:16:30.000 they're like the ones you're paying more for them than like the ones you can just buy on Amazon or something. 00:16:30.000 --> 00:16:35.200 But at least you can guarantee that they're like safe cells. It's really easy to buy knockoff cells 00:16:35.200 --> 00:16:37.360 that will just catch on fire. Got it connected. 00:16:38.320 --> 00:16:41.680 So I'm going to flip my switch. You should feel it vibrate in a moment. 00:16:41.680 --> 00:16:44.320 Before that, triggers. Oh yeah, we'll need those. 00:16:44.880 --> 00:16:48.000 Triggers are helpful. Yeah. The little spring goes on there. 00:16:48.800 --> 00:16:52.240 See that little knob? And then you got to clip the two things over. 00:16:52.240 --> 00:16:55.680 Sure do. One last sanity check before we screw it down. Yeah. 00:16:55.680 --> 00:16:58.960 We'll walk over here. Yeah, let's do that. Can you track pad click? 00:16:59.760 --> 00:17:02.880 Track pad click. Cool. Hell yeah. 00:17:02.880 --> 00:17:07.200 All right. Let's screw together. Oh. So this one's yours. 00:17:07.200 --> 00:17:10.800 This one's mine. This is also the part where we install some magnets 00:17:10.800 --> 00:17:14.240 to help hold it together. Oh yeah. How do they work? How do they work? 00:17:14.240 --> 00:17:19.360 Yeah. I don't know how to explain how magnets work. Are you saying that you're not smart enough to explain it 00:17:19.360 --> 00:17:23.520 or I'm not smart enough to understand it? Both. And it should hold in actually pretty solid 00:17:23.520 --> 00:17:26.560 even without the screws. That kind of snaps on there a little. 00:17:26.560 --> 00:17:32.480 It kind of looks like there's one more hole here. So that hole actually to be able to access that reset button 00:17:32.480 --> 00:17:36.320 on the MCU. Got it. Remember we double-clicked that reset button earlier 00:17:36.320 --> 00:17:39.360 to put it into the boot loader mode so you could flash firmware to it. 00:17:40.320 --> 00:17:44.160 There you go. It'll, I like the word self-clearance, 00:17:44.160 --> 00:17:47.680 they'll get better at snapping together as time goes on. Yeah. Sick. 00:17:49.200 --> 00:17:52.880 I get to use it now? Yeah, let's use it. Time to play some games? 00:17:52.880 --> 00:17:58.160 Heck yeah. I've never played skate. What are the odds you think that your controller 00:17:58.160 --> 00:18:01.920 would make me good at it? Very low. Really? We can try. 00:18:01.920 --> 00:18:06.240 Is that because your controller is not very good? No, it's because you're probably not very good at skate. 00:18:06.240 --> 00:18:09.440 Right. Well, your coaching should make me better at it. 00:18:09.440 --> 00:18:13.520 Yes, most definitely. Okay, cool. Oh man, I can do like a flying side kick. 00:18:13.520 --> 00:18:15.360 Yeah, jump in the air and hold the right trigger. 00:18:17.680 --> 00:18:23.920 Why would you have me do that? So you could do a front flip. So now let go of the right trigger at the right time 00:18:23.920 --> 00:18:27.840 and you can land it. Yeah, there you go. 00:18:27.840 --> 00:18:33.120 Okay, all right. Okay, I got this. So the way you ollie is by pressing or going down on your right stick 00:18:33.120 --> 00:18:36.640 and going up quickly. So if you just put your finger towards the bottom of the track pad 00:18:36.640 --> 00:18:40.080 and hold it there, you'll go into an ollie position 00:18:40.080 --> 00:18:43.040 and now slide your finger up straight up. Yeah, kick flip. 00:18:44.880 --> 00:18:51.120 Okay, let's go. Backside crew. So basically we've just got a lot of granularity in our controls here. 00:18:51.120 --> 00:18:54.880 Yes, a lot of customization and just a different way to interact 00:18:54.880 --> 00:19:00.160 with the game that you wouldn't have in any other experience. Just like with the steam controller and the steam deck, 00:19:00.160 --> 00:19:03.600 if you're not that into the track pads or the game doesn't benefit from it, 00:19:03.600 --> 00:19:07.280 you can just completely ignore them. Yeah, there's no reason you have to use them, 00:19:07.280 --> 00:19:11.520 but it's that extra layer of interaction you get that I think makes my controller stand out. 00:19:11.520 --> 00:19:16.640 We mentioned this very briefly earlier, but officially there's no support for two players just yet, 00:19:16.640 --> 00:19:20.080 but you loaded a player tube firmware onto this one? 00:19:20.080 --> 00:19:24.400 I hard-coded in a second player support, 00:19:24.400 --> 00:19:27.600 so it's still very experimental, so no promises as will work perfectly, 00:19:27.600 --> 00:19:33.280 but we can definitely give it a try here. I did do a pre-release on the GitHub for the two bits of firmware. 00:19:33.280 --> 00:19:38.480 Ideally in the future, I'll have some sort of like pairing routine where each thing will have its own unique dongle. 00:19:38.480 --> 00:19:41.600 Right, yeah. But for right now, any dongle can talk to any controller. 00:19:41.600 --> 00:19:45.360 Okay, how do I pass? I think it's B. Nice. 00:19:45.360 --> 00:19:49.040 Wait, I have a player down. I have a player down, time out. 00:19:49.040 --> 00:19:51.760 Uh, sure. Hey, look at that, you have another player down. Hey, look at another one. 00:19:52.960 --> 00:19:56.320 Hey, look at third one. You just pushed me over. 00:19:56.320 --> 00:20:01.040 I have nobody up. How am I supposed to fight against that? All three of my players are on the ground. 00:20:01.040 --> 00:20:04.720 Hey, you have all the same players I do. You could throw the stick. Look at this replay. 00:20:04.720 --> 00:20:07.760 They're just all dead. That's a cheesy goal. 00:20:07.760 --> 00:20:11.920 You know what's not cheesy? Is this project? Yeah, it's a little expensive. 00:20:11.920 --> 00:20:17.280 Yeah, it's a little time consuming, but as far as like DIY things go, 00:20:17.280 --> 00:20:20.960 it's pretty polished actually. Thank you. Good job. 00:20:20.960 --> 00:20:26.080 Thank you. Still a lot of things that can prove there's a whole laundry list, but I guess one thing you could take away from this video 00:20:26.080 --> 00:20:29.280 and this project is that this is actually probably the least functional. You'll see it. 00:20:29.280 --> 00:20:32.400 I have a Discord setup for this project specifically. Okay. 00:20:32.400 --> 00:20:36.000 And then there also is a GitHub setup where you can open issues for suggestions. 00:20:36.000 --> 00:20:40.320 Let's get all of that linked down below. Thank you so much for coming up here. This was an absolute blast. 00:20:40.320 --> 00:20:45.120 This is such a cool project. And who knows, maybe by the next time we talk about it, 00:20:45.120 --> 00:20:48.240 you'll be doing some pretty crazy stuff 00:20:48.240 --> 00:20:51.680 with like controllers or- I make lots of things. You should subscribe to me. 00:20:51.680 --> 00:20:54.720 Yeah, do that. Thank you for bringing me out. 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