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Got a nice mastercraft soldering station with a 20/40w switch.
I also picked up a white psOne DualShock for $17canadian.
http://img265.imageshack.us/img265/2969/psone7ji.th.jpg
it's just a pain that I'll have to solder to the legs of that tiny chip in the top left. It seems almost impossible to me, even with this tiny soldering tip.
And the traces? those are even smaller! I assume you were using a 3rd party controller?
thanks,
King.
No mine was a first party controller. The traces are as big as you want them to be although they are very thin, so be careful not to pull them up. As long as the traces next to the object one are covered still it doesnt matter if you do a crap job as long as the solder sticks, you need'nt worry about a short.
It's hard to do, make sure you secure the wire in place as any little tug on the wire by mistake will pull up the trace. Alot of people use hot glue guns to make a seal of the solder join, but i'm cheap and just use wax.
I think I'll try the solderless method.
http://home.comcast.net/~spiffyshoes/DualShockHack/
I got everything is needs, here goes nothing!