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jgsing:

For a series of Interactive Museum Exhibits I am building I need a traditional paddle control.  This is similar to what was in Pong or Breakout. That is a potentiometer based control that turns less than a full circle and returns to the 12:00 position when released.

Anyone know where I can find something like this?

Thanks,
John

RandyT:

This would be a pretty specialized control.  Your best bet would be to hack a flight stick with a twist "rudder" control.

RandyT

paigeoliver:

The Pong and Breakout controllers do not return to center. I have owned a half dozen Pong clones over the years (still have one) and I played the Breakout machine at John Yates' arcade museum a few months ago and none of those return to center. They turn about 270 degrees before stopping, but many styles use a slip-grip mechanism that will let them turn past the stops (to no effect of course).

A standard atari 2600 paddle is cheap and easy to find and would work. If you want the heavy duty arcade style then register for the forums at arcade-museum.com and post a wanted to buy posting and say you want a pong type controller, clones ok.

paigeoliver:

You may also just want to buy a cheaper Pong clone like this.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Cocktail-Table-Video-Arcade-Pong-Coin-Operated-/330789073526?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item4d0490b276

Pull a paddle, use it while you need it and then put it back and resell the whole machine when you are done.

RandyT:

I think you may have misunderstood the request.  He's looking for a potentiometer based control, like a Pong controller, but one which returns to center.  Not specifically a Pong controller.  The only place I have seen anything remotely similar is the rudder control on a flight stick, where one can twist the stick and it has a spring loaded return to center.

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