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ROTARY T-STIK PLUS (PLUS) - Willy Wonka Edition
mr.Curmudgeon:
--- Quote from: BuZz880 on January 28, 2005, 10:14:54 am ---Basically the gear just turns with the shaft and the locking mechanism stays put...
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Damn...I haven't had any problem with it yet, still working fine. Maybe I just got lucky with the threading. Obviously the one improvement would be to replace the plastic gear w/ a metal version. I've tried contacting the pulley/gear manufactorer from the link upthread, but they haven't gotten back to me yet.
Maybe someone with more technical knowledge could see if they offer an appropriate gear on the site: https://sdp-si.com/eStore/Direct.asp?GroupID=218
Sorry you're having trouble with it Buzz, I'm looking for a way to eliminate that issue.
mrC
Nannuu:
--- Quote from: Minwah on January 28, 2005, 11:44:36 am ---
--- Quote from: Silver on November 10, 2004, 07:03:34 am ---Hmmm does anyone have any ideas for extending the shaft of a joystick - I'm looking to implement something like this hack on my J-sticks, but the shaft is short and has a different end than the t-sticks.
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Shaft coupler.
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Rip:
I love when older posts come back around and you learn something you had missed :D
I tried this solution with no costs, used an existing joystick and an old mouse. It has not been 100% playtested yet, but it really does work nicely with an 8% sensitivy analog setting in MAME. Only took about 1 1/2 hrs to put a prototype it together, but I was lucky that everything fit (ie..the height of the roller in the mouse matched exactly the height of the joystick 'groove').
A standard rubber band seems to do the trick. It seems the wider the better for more surface contact. The groove on the joystick acts as a natural channel to keep the rubber band in place.
Now if only Frontline was configured to use the mouse :(
Silver:
--- Quote from: Minwah on January 28, 2005, 11:44:36 am ---If you figure anything out be sure to post...I'd given up on this mod for the J-Stik...
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I managed to hack a couple of J-sticks to rotary using a different method. I came across a couple of old rotary encoders from old peice of audio kit. I checked the specs and it claimed a "2-bit gray encoding" for the output - however it turns out (after a quick conflab with Andy from Ultimarc!) that this is in fact just a phase difference - which is exactly how analogue arcade controls work - so it works fine with the optipac. If you are interested I can track down some more details......
Minwah:
--- Quote from: Silver on January 29, 2005, 04:31:49 pm ---I managed to hack a couple of J-sticks to rotary using a different method. I came across a couple of old rotary encoders from old peice of audio kit. I checked the specs and it claimed a "2-bit gray encoding" for the output - however it turns out (after a quick conflab with Andy from Ultimarc!) that this is in fact just a phase difference - which is exactly how analogue arcade controls work - so it works fine with the optipac. If you are interested I can track down some more details......
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Yea I'm interested! :) Have you got any pics of how you attached it to the J-stik?