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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:
--- Quote from: ultramagnus on July 27, 2005, 04:34:42 am ---it has four buttons...
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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!