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Title: Steering wheel controlled by mouse?
Post by: Redseven80 on February 26, 2005, 08:53:26 pm
Is it possible to connect an arcade wheel to one of the axis/rollers on a mouse, if so would it be very accurate?
Title: Re: Steering wheel controlled by mouse?
Post by: cholin on February 26, 2005, 08:55:11 pm
Im sure you can use a steering wheel just as you would use a spinner, may need to mod it though for the encoder wheel to work right.
Title: Re: Steering wheel controlled by mouse?
Post by: Redseven80 on February 26, 2005, 08:59:16 pm
Ive never really bothered with spinners, so I have know idea about them, is a spinner made from a mouse?
Title: Re: Steering wheel controlled by mouse?
Post by: Kremmit on February 26, 2005, 09:32:58 pm
Spinners, 360 degree (not 270 degree) steering wheels, and trackballs all work like a mouse.  There are three popular ways to hook them up-

1. The Opti-Pac (http://www.ultimarc.com/optipac1.html)
2.  An Oscar mouse hack (http://www.oscarcontrols.com/)
3.  a do-it-yourself mouse hack, which I don't have a ready link for.