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Old 11-20-2013, 09:19 AM   #57
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Originally Posted by kakarot1657 View Post
This is a concept I'm think of.



now it's just figuring out what components I can use with the space provided. But really it's just a idea nothing more lol
I had given some thought to this as well, I think the way to go would be a D-Pad, maybe salvaged from an old video game controller. Use up/down for volume, left/right for seek, and if there's a center button, use that for mode. It should be compact and ergonomic.

Remember, what the head unit is looking for is just shorting out two pins with a resistor. It's going to be much easier with a discrete on/off switch than using a potentiometer or an analog joystick or anything like that that has variable resistance. You'll need some intermediate circuitry to turn that into the type of signal that the HU is looking for. I'm not an electronics guy and I really don't know what you'd need to do to make that conversion, so I'd lean towards simple switches and resistors.
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