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ROTARY T-STIK PLUS (PLUS) - Willy Wonka Edition
menace:
Sweet! Way to think outside the cabinet! Question though--it looks like in one of the directions you might get a lot of slack i.e shaft toward the mouse--is that a problem or does the belt continue to ride the gears? I guess you could spring mount the mouse so that it maintains tension on the belt regardless of where it was positioned.
Minwah:
That's pretty damn cool, and to think I said it couldn't be done! :-[
You could further the idea on a 2 player panel by hooking up the 2nd mouse axis optics in some kind of custom housing for the Player 2 stick.
I decided I wouldn't bother with rotary sticks for the sake of a handful of games - might have to change my mind now... :)
Witchboard:
Props. Very well executed.
mr.Curmudgeon:
--- Quote from: menace on June 03, 2004, 06:40:02 am ---Question though--it looks like in one of the directions you might get a lot of slack i.e shaft toward the mouse--is that a problem or does the belt continue to ride the gears? I guess you could spring mount the mouse so that it maintains tension on the belt regardless of where it was positioned.
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I went with the belt (rather than a simple rubber band) because of that very issue. The teeth keep riding the gear, just as you've suggested. The T-Stik doesn't really have that much travel, so the belt stays pretty taut. The thin mouting bracket allows for enough "spring-like" action that there is never really enough slack to cause problems. In addition, you don't even notice the additional assembly (ie: joystick doesn't strain in any direction).
-Thanks everybody, for the compliments so far!
Generic Eric:
ack!
How come you couldn't have come up with this before I bought my rotary sticks from ebay?
good show!