View Single Post
  #1 (permalink)  
Old July 14th, 2007, 01:06 PM
bmjelde bmjelde is offline
Newbie Floating Down The Mistic River
 
Join Date: Jun 2005
Posts: 20
Adding feet, improving joystick

After finishing a building project, I had some leftover self-adhesive rubber (silicone?) feet in my shack. I found I could solve two problems with them. Firstly, my DAPs mostly sit on a table, and there is nothing to prevent my DAPs from slipping if there is some tension applied (like a USB cable). Secondly, the H120 joystick is difficult to manouver, one tends to press down instead of up/down or left/right.

The rubber feet are 3 mm tall and 7 mm diameter; and transparent. After I put on one in each corner the player is much more stable and will not slip easily. Putting it on the top of the joystick was a solution a bit less elegant, since the self-adhesive back of the rubber couldn't contact with the dented top. So I put a drop of transparent glue on the top and applied pressure until the glue fastened.

I am delighted to say that the joystick now moves just the way I want it to! Of course this mod increases the height of the player, and those who usually keep the H120 (or H320 for that matter, sans joystick mod) in a tight pocket may not want to do it.

I'm sure these items are available most anywhere; I got mine from an electronics company in Sweden. The link is http://www.elfa.se/elfa-bin/dyndok.p...htm?_50_570_21
Attached Thumbnails
adding-feet-improving-joystick-h120-feet.jpg  adding-feet-improving-joystick-h120-joystick.jpg  
__________________
Bjarne Mjelde
Berlevag, Arctic Norway
www.arcticdx.blogspot.com
Reply With Quote