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Making a U360 into a top fire!

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headkaze:


--- Quote from: whammoed on January 03, 2008, 12:50:22 pm ---Screw audio jack into end of stick.  Use right angle audio cable:

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Great idea!  :applaud:

whammoed:


--- Quote from: headkaze on January 03, 2008, 01:11:35 pm ---
--- Quote from: whammoed on January 03, 2008, 12:50:22 pm ---Screw audio jack into end of stick.  Use right angle audio cable:

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Great idea!  :applaud:

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I think slikstik was the first to do it.

Also: Don't put the button on top.  Top fire sucks.  Put the button on the "side/front" of the balltop.

LeedsFan:

The audio jack idea can't work with the U360 because of the unique way in which this joystick works (in that it needs a magnet on the end of the shaft to move over a sensor).
Very clever idea for standard sticks... but not the U360.

LeedsFan:


--- Quote from: yugffuts on January 03, 2008, 11:37:27 am ---.......  Run your leads off that stationary ring, and you will avoid any wire tangling.

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I think I understand what you mean now. But won't the leads from the button coming through the shaft be connected to the stationary ring? Then the ring that is free to move round the shaft.... but which is in constant contact with the the stationary ring to allow current to flow.... is the one that you connect to the encoder.

Then you could twist away as much as you like. Just need to have decent contact between the rings. The rings would have to be under the black plastic restrictor part but above the e-clip. With a restrictor in place it would be the only way.

EDIT:   more thoughts as I study the U360. You could actually pack out the small hole in the top of the magnet with one or two washers. This would move the magnet down about 2 mm. Shouldn't affect how the unit works at all. Can't go more than 2mm looking at it though because in unrestricted mode at full movement you would touch the sensor with any more packing.

This could give enough space to place the rings between the magnet and the e-clip. Would have to be thin rings though.  :dizzy:

Green Giant:


--- Quote from: whammoed on January 03, 2008, 12:50:22 pm ---Screw audio jack into end of stick.  Use right angle audio cable:



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That idea has been brought up before, problem is the bottom is dedicated to the big magnet.  To truely do this you would need to come off the side.

I drew up a really bad schematic, but the idea behind seems very sound.



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