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Author Topic: Steering wheel controlled by mouse?  (Read 775 times)

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Redseven80

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Steering wheel controlled by mouse?
« on: February 26, 2005, 08:53:26 pm »
Is it possible to connect an arcade wheel to one of the axis/rollers on a mouse, if so would it be very accurate?
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Re: Steering wheel controlled by mouse?
« Reply #1 on: February 26, 2005, 08:55:11 pm »
Im sure you can use a steering wheel just as you would use a spinner, may need to mod it though for the encoder wheel to work right.
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Re: Steering wheel controlled by mouse?
« Reply #2 on: February 26, 2005, 08:59:16 pm »
Ive never really bothered with spinners, so I have know idea about them, is a spinner made from a mouse?
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Re: Steering wheel controlled by mouse?
« Reply #3 on: February 26, 2005, 09:32:58 pm »
Spinners, 360 degree (not 270 degree) steering wheels, and trackballs all work like a mouse.  There are three popular ways to hook them up-

1. The Opti-Pac
2.  An Oscar mouse hack
3.  a do-it-yourself mouse hack, which I don't have a ready link for.
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