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Switch Panel & PC - Josh - 2012-12-03 18:31 I have a couple of old Woodway switch panels laying about, these things: How hard would it be to get this as a working controller with my PC (if possible)? What would I need to do it? Josh. RE: Switch Panel & PC - Tommer - 2012-12-03 19:30 Not so much a helpful post but holyheck if you get that working that'll be so awesome. xD RE: Switch Panel & PC - Zipppy - 2012-12-03 20:05 replace the internal parts with controller ones maybe? RE: Switch Panel & PC - Josh - 2012-12-03 20:23 What sort of parts could that be? I don't know anything about the workings of electronics. RE: Switch Panel & PC - Cola - 2012-12-03 21:13 My best bet would be to somehow find out of all the inner workings of it (ask someone who knows alot about circuits etc.) and somehow get a PCB and some stuff. Maybe use an old keyboard or something like that. (the pressure pads) It is possible one way or another. Just needs some modifications though. RE: Switch Panel & PC - Zipppy - 2012-12-03 23:09 to add to the above, if a keyboard doesn't suffice, maybe dissecting an old controller full of buttons could work... I personally would get a cheap gamepad with a USB interface if you don't have an old controller worth gutting. RE: Switch Panel & PC - Elmo - 2012-12-04 11:52 2 options 1. Take it apart and see if it's possible to directly tap into the individual buttons. If so, find a cheap controller with enough buttons that allows you to do the same (good luck). 2. Get yourself a microcontroller/dev board with some decent GPIO and find a spec for the pad or variously hack/reverse engineer it, using the MC/dev board as a generic USB HID.