Build Your Own Arcade Controls Forum
Main => Main Forum => Topic started by: IceCold on July 18, 2003, 11:45:51 am
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I would like to hook up 1 potentiometer and 1 button to the gameport. I would like the pot to be the horizontal axis, and the button to be button 1. I've seen gameport pinouts on the internet, but when I tried hooking it up, windows wouldn't recognize it. Is there any way to do this?
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I'm currently working on an analog wheel and pedal set up. I think the problem you are having is that Windows is looking for the Y axis before it accepts your wiring as a joystick.
There are ways around this. You can just hook a spare potentiometer to the y-axis or a resister (since a pot is just a variable resistor).
The other possibility is that your wiring is wrong. I would add the other axis first to see if that fixes it.
Rocky
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I'm currently working on an analog wheel and pedal set up. I think the problem you are having is that Windows is looking for the Y axis before it accepts your wiring as a joystick.
There are ways around this. You can just hook a spare potentiometer to the y-axis or a resister (since a pot is just a variable resistor).
The other possibility is that your wiring is wrong. I would add the other axis first to see if that fixes it.
Rocky
Okay, I was wondering if it needed to have 2 axis's. I'll wire up an additional potentiometer and see if it fixes it. If it works I'll figure out the type of resistor I need for the y axis to be in the middle, and then add one.
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Analog PC joysticks typically use 100k ohm linear taper pots, so a 50k ohm resistor should pass for the y axis pot.
http://www.monmouth.com/~lw4750/ (http://www.monmouth.com/~lw4750/) Lew's wheels is a good reference for such projects.
Butch...