adding pedals to a flight yoke?

[ultramagnus]

i have a rather good (if old) game port flight yoke, i would like to add some kind of pedals to it, nothing fancy, just standard on-off pedals, is this possible without gutting a keyboard? is there a more elegant way to do this?

[Minwah]

Does the yoke have any buttons?

You should be able to connect up to 4 buttons to the gameport.  You should be able to do something as long as the yoke has the wires for the buttons wired in the cable...

Here's a pinout which might help you trace which wires are which:

http://www.technick.net/public/code/cp_dpage.php?aiocp_dp=pinconjoy_pc_game

[ultramagnus]

it has four buttons...

[Minwah]

it has four buttons...

Well in that case you'd have to 'get rid' of two of them and use them as pedals instead.

If 2 buttons is enough, you could daisy chain 2 buttons together.  So have 4 buttons with only 2 different functions.  If that makes sense....

[ultramagnus]

it makes sense, however i was also hoping to add two more buttons as well as pedals.


mmm, looks like hacking a keyboard or using a usb encoder is my only options...

damn limitations of the gameport!

[Minwah]

mmm, looks like hacking a keyboard or using a usb encoder is my only options...

damn limitations of the gameport!

Actually thinking about it you could use Player 2 up/down/left/right as 4 more inputs...as long as the wires are there in the cable.

Edit: actually that might be harder than it sounds...you might need to build a circuit - see the link I gave above for more info.

[ultramagnus]

seems simple enough, well, my yoke must already use one of those inputs because it has a throttle (its a suncom g force plus) so all i would need is figure out how to build a pair of pedals that use a pot, correct?

[Minwah]

seems simple enough, well, my yoke must already use one of those inputs because it has a throttle (its a suncom g force plus) so all i would need is figure out how to build a pair of pedals that use a pot, correct?

Yep, if one of the P2 axes is being used already, you could wire up 2 analog pot-based pedals to the remaining 1 axis...this is called a single-axis pedal setup.