Skip to content

Commit

Permalink
Update 2025-01-04-blue-boss.md
Browse files Browse the repository at this point in the history
  • Loading branch information
Beej126 authored Jan 5, 2025
1 parent a3d41ef commit f2a81c6
Showing 1 changed file with 4 additions and 3 deletions.
7 changes: 4 additions & 3 deletions _posts/2025-01-04-blue-boss.md
Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
Expand Up @@ -27,13 +27,14 @@ Basically looking to bluetooth enable my favorite old school Wico Boss joystick
- on amazon there's not many choices, definitely make sure to get the finest tip you can find for this kind of work
- here's a link to the one i used: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002RMCFZM
- hopefully anyone looking here for reference gets a good enough sense of where i chose to tap into leads...
- when you zoom in it's pretty obvious one side of each control button pad with the big black intersection "U" shapes has one U connecting to ground and then most of them connect to an obvious "[via](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Via_(electronics))" which seems like the optimal place to scratch and solder but but not all of them go to an obvious via so you just have to scratch into somewhere along a fine lead...
- when you zoom in it's pretty obvious one side of each control button pad with the big black intersecting "U" shapes has one U connecting to ground and then MOST of the opposing U's connect to an obvious "[via](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Via_(electronics))" which seem like the optimal place to scratch and solder ... but but not all of them go to an obvious via so you just have to scratch into somewhere along a fine lead...
- WARNING - once you have connected magnet wire to a trace lead, be very careful you don't tug the whole thing off... if you look at my joystick right pad you can see i ran into that kind of trouble
1. **WIRE** - i also used 30 AWG enameled magnet wire like the reddit post and found that to be a good fit: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0CK83CR2B
1. PHONE = soldering microscope - i think it's a good cheap hack here to use one's phone as a "soldering microscope"... i found i didn't need to go any more than 8-10x magnification to see these small traces really really well
1. PHONE = soldering microscope - i think it's a good cheap hack here to use one's phone as a "soldering microscope"
- i found i didn't need to go any more than 8-10x magnification to work on these small traces very effectively
- i wound up getting a cheapo articulating magsafe stand to position the phone above the soldering area... i'm not sure this is the optimal choice but it worked well enough: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0CP29VTPY
- little "coin" microscopes are amazingly cheap as well and this seems worth trying: https://www.amazon.com/Elikliv-Microscope-Endoscope-Magnification-Adjustable/dp/B07QB79SN6
1. see [this post](Gen2-GuliKit-TMR-PS4-joystick-drift-fix) for more soldering tips if you're as rusty as i was =)
1. see [this post](/Gen2-GuliKit-TMR-PS4-joystick-drift-fix) for more soldering tips if you're as rusty as i was =)

### final build
![final build profile](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/a2b491e9-13f6-4600-8954-6ea5527b055a)
Expand Down

0 comments on commit f2a81c6

Please sign in to comment.