![]() ![]() We used a piece of tape on the blade to mark the depth we'd be cutting to, but using some cheap particle board as a backstop made it pretty easy to tell when we'd broken through the harder wood. Our process here was dictated by the kind of saw we had on hand-in this case we used an oscillating multi-tool to cut through the stacked wood vertically. With all that sketched out, we lined up several more pieces of the plywood and glued them together to serve as the body of the controller. This helped us determine how thick we could make the sides and how much extra wood to leave in the corners to give screws for the bottom panel plenty of security. With the button holes done, we drew a rough diagram on the top panel to figure out how the PCB would fit and where the side buttons (for Start, Select etc.) would fit, as well as where the hole for the USB plug would go. This would let us deal with the not-square edges later with an orbital sander. ![]() Instead we went for a "sandwich" approach, cutting the plywood into several pieces and layering it to create the thickness needed to fit all the internal parts. Because we didn't have a table saw or skilsaw (or a laser cutter, which would be even better), we decided it was going to be tricky to build a box-style controller like in this YouTube video. The saws you have access to will dictate how you go about building your controller.This can be fairly easily solved, but only if you have the right woodworking equipment. Even nice quality plywood isn't going to have perfectly squared edges, which makes perfect measurements tough.The next steps of planning my build at this point revealed many complexities I hadn't really thought about. Brook offers bundles for buying the cables together and/or with the UFB that knocks quite a bit off the price. ![]() If you're building a leverless controller like me, you'll also want the fighting board cable and hitbox cable, which make the wiring process really, really easy. For anyone building a fight stick going forward, though, I'd recommend the new UFB Fusion, which integrates the PS5 add-on it's the plug-it-into-anything-and-it'll-just-work board to choose now. There's a budget option in the $25 Brook Zero-Pi, but I asked Brook to send me its $80 Universal Fighting Board as well as a small add-on board for PS5 support. While I'll mostly be playing on PC, I also wanted the stick to work on consoles. That left the stick's controller board and wiring. ![]()
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