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From the submitter:
I play games online on PSN, bluetooth headset kept getting lost, then I just hacked the two together. An effective fix! Full build log at the source.
Update: A user brought up a very good point.
Submitted by: Doppel
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Useful kludge, kudos to the creator. It was easy to tie in the power to a common source since most small li-ion batteries supply 3.7v.
Hello there! I noticed the update photo (How do you charge it?), and I want to clarify that the Bluetooth board draws power from the DualShock 3 Battery, which charges as I charge the controller. This and other details are inside the source link.
-Doppel
I had a friend who wired a rumble pack into an old n64 controller well before controllers had them incorporated. He has very well read tutorials featured on IGN. Pretty sure that Nintendo saw the tutorials and ran with the idea. I can see that happening with this idea as well.
Problem with that is the motors draw more power than the system is designed for. If you have a few of those going at once it can overload and crash the system.
Bulls**t. I did the rumble pack pattery hack to every N64 controller I had back in the day. Overloading and crashing was never a problem even with four controllers hooked up and all of them rumbling during a game of Mario Kart.
Wrong. Back in the day I had all four controllers hooked up, with hacked rumble packs, playing several 4-play games and the system never crashed.
I had a game freeze while the extra memory was in place. Only happened once, but still confusing.
I have no interest at all in online play (oddly, specifically _because_ of the chatter), but I totally groove on electronics mods, and this is one of the sweetest, most practical and (most importantly) _cleanest-looking_ things I’ve ever seen done to a controller.
Follow the link to the build instructions! The read is almost as much fun as the pictures.
Bravo, Good Sir. Extremely well done!
Good place for it. Brains and Bluetooth are not the best of friends.
Yes and bluetooth and your crotch is so much better. O_o
Never take those controllers apart, they are fiddly as fudge to get back together. Not saying it’s impossible, just saying I’ve done it twice and the first one is just a bag of parts.
I’ve taken several PS3 controllers apart and put them back together. I have a hunch that you’re just not qualified to turn a screwdriver.
Never realized there was a screwdriver certification test.
He is talking metaphorically.
obvious troll answer is obvious : you need hands to handle this task properly.
Seems like it would really suck to have to listen to this guy, as the mic would pick up the sounds of all the controller buttons being pressed
^ This! It would be really annoying!
This
Doesn’t happen. Read the article at the end of the link. He tested it out already. At 70 percent gain, his voice is transmitted clearly and his controller sounds are not.
If you read the comments of the link, the creator says he put the volume at 70% which allows him to talk normally, but doesn’t transmit the clicking noises of the controller.
So, you listen to other people over the TV sound? Don’t you or the other player get echoes of some sort? The idea is pretty neat, though….
COngrats!
Update: A user obviously didn’t read the source.
Quote:
First off, modification of the BT board has to be done. Here’s what I did to it first:
-Internal 100 mAH battery removed: It’s a piece of crap that dies all the time, and the board will draw power from the DS3′s battery.
how do you charge it? why does it need to be charged? just take power from the gamepad battery…
Precisely.
The only good point your user brought up is that he (or she, of course) is perfectly willing to tear an idea apart without going through the trouble of actually learning what he (or she) is talking about.
Better question…how would you hear it? It’s meant to be right up to your ear. No way you’re going to hear it once it’s stuffed in the controller and being held 2-3 feet from your face.
You can set the voicechat to be sent out of the TV speakers instead of the headset speakers.
So what are those noises I keep hearing coming out of my Wiimote?
How do you sync it to a different system?
Cool!!! Now, you can play ps3 with the controller in your ear. Since you are not going to be able to hear anything.
how do you turn it on and off?
To the problem of how to charge it.
. I’ve seen Ben Heck do it before (for a different project but that doesn’t matter).
Not at all, just steal the current from the controler. That was simple. Ask me more, please
how do you charge it, or connect it? unless you somehow integrated it into the controller power and bluetooth, you would be a playstation god
no it has its own BT connection it just ‘steals’ current from the controller, there fore charging the controller will charge the headset.
i tryed to do this myself today, but im not that experienced with electronics, i think i broke my headset, i got the regular PS headset (yours fits better) i got it in but the button broke of, then i gleued it back on now it wo’nt turn on