Build Your Own Arcade Controls Forum

Main => Main Forum => Topic started by: retrometro on September 21, 2008, 09:17:50 pm

Title: How do the rotating / turnable joysticks interface?
Post by: retrometro on September 21, 2008, 09:17:50 pm

I think I read from one of the threads that since they're digital they just provide two microswitch inputs?

Title: Re: How do the rotating / turnable joysticks interface?
Post by: Havok on September 21, 2008, 09:24:42 pm

You get something like this:

http://groovygamegear.com/webstore/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=76_81&products_id=304 (http://groovygamegear.com/webstore/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=76_81&products_id=304)

Title: Re: How do the rotating / turnable joysticks interface?
Post by: u_rebelscum on September 22, 2008, 06:42:37 pm

Quote from: retrometro on September 21, 2008, 09:17:50 pm

I think I read from one of the threads that since they're digital they just provide two microswitch inputs?

To expand on what Havok said, the mechanical rotary sticks have 12 switches, one for each rotation position of the stick.  The rotary encoder card Havok linked converts the 12 switches to two signals, left and right.

Title: Re: How do the rotating / turnable joysticks interface?
Post by: Ummon on September 23, 2008, 11:25:33 pm

Bad title. I thought he was meaning like the Mag-stick or Prodigy.

Title: Re: How do the rotating / turnable joysticks interface?
Post by: u_rebelscum on September 24, 2008, 12:58:03 pm

Oh, I forgot to mention the optical rotary sticks.  Less common in the arcades, but happs sells both a mechanical and an optical rotary stick.  The optical interfaces like a spinner.