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Home made Starwars yoke for the technically challenged - talk me out of it!!!
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BazookaJo:
Okay - we know RAM does a decent yoke, but what about a Starwars yoke lite that almost any clown can cobble together - even me!

Was thinking about using the gyro in a mobile phone e.g. MAME4Droid + DLNA would present some interesting possibilities, but right now the gyro is only half working, which leaves us with the Wiimote+GlovePie+PC+MAME.

So here's my plan - please feel free to talk me out of it before I spend any real money e.g. how the hell would I splice the 2 nunchucks together before they enter the wiimote?

1. Cheapo China wiimote & 2 x nunchucks - £20
2. Wii steering wheel/stand £10 (none essential steering wheel bits removed ala hacksaw)
3. 2x Pipe clamps £8
4. 2-3 Pipe spacers/clips and PCV pipe for axle £5
5. Various bits and bobs to attach the stuff together, limit the rotations, and add the springs to return the yoke to centre £5

Finally I would create a set of templates in quality card to replicate the dashboard and yoke decals....

Again - please talk me out of it!!!!



BadMouth:
Seems overly complicated and expensive for a controller that only needs 2 axis and four buttons.
Also, I get the blue screen of death when I try to use more than one 3rd party wii controller with glovepie.

I'd start with a Jakk's plug and play game for the grips and buttons:


Throw in two $3 pots from radioshack and a $6 or $7 pad to hack.
How to tie it all together would depend on how durable you wanted it to be and much you wanted to spend.
It would probably end up costing $40 or $50 if you wanted it to be durable.

A few times I tried to put together a parts list that could be had for $20, but could never get it that low.



yotsuya:
Sooooooo...... do you really want us to talk you out of it, or are you looking for validation? As this is BYOAC, I would feel wrong to try and talk you out of rolling your own, but I agree with BadMouth. Unless you're planning to fabricate something study to hold all those pieces together, I see it falling apart with any sort of real play.

So in short, the Spock in me is trying to talk you out of it, but in the spirit of BYOAC, well, BYOAC!
Nephasth:
Don't do it.
Le Chuck:
I've always liked the PVC homebrew version myself.  You could combine that with the Jak's handles and have a pretty sweet setup. 


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