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| Namco:
None of Ultimarc's sticks use potentiometers, so you couldn't wire one up to a Xbox 360 controller --- Quote ---Fred, Unfortunately Microsoft have banned third-party controllers on the 360 and encrypted the interface to prevent it, so the only way is to hack a real controller. We dont have any pot type of analog joystick suitable for a hack unfortunately. Andy --- End quote --- |
| u_rebelscum:
--- Quote from: Namco on May 29, 2009, 07:23:58 pm --- --- Quote ---...We dont have any pot type of analog joystick suitable for a hack unfortunately. --- End quote --- None of Ultimarc's sticks use potentiometers, so you couldn't wire one up to a Xbox 360 controller --- End quote --- Err, in most, but not all, cases pots can (and have been) replaced with Halls Effect sensors. (examples: CH flightsticks, industrial) From looking at pictures of repairing an xbox360 analog stick, I'd guess a Hall Effect sensor probably would work if you could wire the raw three pin per axis output. OTOH, I think Andy is saying that since the u360 outputs USB (and the Hall Effect sensors are on the same board that converts to USB), you can't hack it to replace an analog stick, and all the other sticks ultimarc has are 8-way (aka digital). |
| rusolinio:
You can change the analog signals on the xbox360 gamepad pcb to digital via 10k resistors. I had to do this to make my wireless coffee table. There must be SOME joysticks out there that use 10k pots? Anyone know of any? If there is, an analog arcade stick could easily be made using the pcbs out of xbox360 gamepads. |
| NickG:
If you know the output of the hall effect circuit (it is either 0V-5V, or ±2.5V, can't remember) on the U360, you should be able to condition the signal (to a variable current, for example) for the analog portion of the console controller using only a few components, provided you know what the console controller expects. |
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