{"id":8947,"date":"2007-08-30T13:58:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-30T17:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2007\/08\/30\/tonights-goals\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T11:35:59","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T15:35:59","slug":"tonights-goals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2007\/08\/30\/tonights-goals\/","title":{"rendered":"Tonight&#8217;s Goals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I picked up another SCPH-1001, OEM controller, and two third-party controllers. Inside of one of the third party controllers is a larger-than-the-Sony IC for converting button presses to the Playstation controller protocol. (The other is completely potted.)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to document that board (it&#8217;s very simple and not all the pins on the chip are used) and hopefully lift the chip and place it on a new, smaller board which I&#8217;ll make up. On this board I can leave large enough pads to solder to so that I don&#8217;t have the problem I had last time. Well, the soldering problem&#8230; The root of the problem is because I documented the Sony controller at around midnight, then didn&#8217;t double-check that documentation yesterday. I had counted some pins wrong. :(<\/p>\n<p>I also have to rip out the shiny cabling that I put in place the other day and replace it with&#8230; whatever the new stuff is. I might also use random salvaged flat cable to save headaches, or just some de-jacketed CAT5. I&#8217;m not sure about this yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I picked up another SCPH-1001, OEM controller, and two third-party controllers. Inside of one of the third party controllers is a larger-than-the-Sony IC for converting button presses to the Playstation controller protocol. (The other is completely potted.) I&#8217;m going to document that board (it&#8217;s very simple and not all the pins on the chip\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,11,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronics","category-making-things","category-moved-from-livejournal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8947"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12666,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8947\/revisions\/12666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}