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bleargh:


--- Quote from: AndyWarne on April 03, 2009, 09:56:03 am ---
--- Quote from: bleargh on April 03, 2009, 01:59:11 am --- having troubles getting Linux to calibrate the joysticks correctly

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The calibration should not be adjusted in the OS because the sticks are self-calibrating. The Linux util is only for downloading maps to the sticks. You can check it out by downloading from www.ultimarc.com/download.html.

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Hmm... if they're auto-calibrating, then I'm definitely doing something wrong... if I boot the Linux box, plug in the joystick, I see its detected, but if I fire up any MAME ROM (using SDLMame) the joystick is mapped all wonky.  One of the joysticks seems to have an analog map, but the other is missing huge chunks of the analog map.

Andy, can I e-mail you off-thread to discuss further?

AndyWarne:


--- Quote from: bleargh on April 03, 2009, 03:13:08 pm ---

Andy, can I e-mail you off-thread to discuss further?

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Certainly can...

Andy

AndyWarne:


--- Quote from: u_rebelscum on April 03, 2009, 02:24:56 pm ---
Andy, is it easy to calibrate for 1g, 2g, etc with the UConfig?  Or does a 2 g-fore just send a value twice as high as a 1 g-force? 

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The scale factor and offset are set in the board using the U-Config utility, which has slider controls for these values. These are retained in the board. So there would not normally be anything to do in the app software. calibration for a certain G value might be a bit tricky as you would need some method of measuring this.
Andy

shardian:

Super cool!

z:

Could you use this in the analog sensing mode as the heart of a flight yoke?
Yes, I'm mentally jumping to the Star Wars style yoke, where this would be mounted on the axle that runs between the two hand grips, sensing the degree of rotational twist along with the front to back tilt.  No pots to worry about, just the basic mechanics of the yoke movement itself (along with fire buttons) and a hole in the base for the wiring to run through.  Sorry if I'm not completely understanding the capabilities it has.  If it is just for detecting acceleration (as opposed to acceleration and orientation) I still think it is great, just wondering how much this item was going to be dominating my daydreams for the next few days.

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