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Main => Woodworking => Topic started by: bartre on December 22, 2009, 11:12:48 pm

Title: Plans for an arcade stick?
Post by: bartre on December 22, 2009, 11:12:48 pm

well, a friend of mine and I want to build a few arcade sticks, and after looking around for a while, we found a design we liked, but we can't find even a remotely viable set of plans, i.e. we'd really just have to wing it on the design.

here's the stick we liked:
http://www.byrdo.org/Album192.htm (http://www.byrdo.org/Album192.htm)

does anyone have a set of plans they could send my way?

Title: Re: Plans for an arcade stick?
Post by: Bobulus on December 23, 2009, 12:03:20 am

Are you asking how to build the case+controls, or how to construct an actual joystick?

He says on his page that he's using stock joysticks

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The majority of joysticks and buttons I use consist of Sanwa, Seimitsu, and/or Happ brand parts

Title: Re: Plans for an arcade stick?
Post by: EwJ on December 23, 2009, 01:23:55 am

I recall seeing some basic plans on byrdo's site (years ago).
If not there anymore, maybe the wayback machine (http://web.archive.org/web/20041015004150/www.byrdo.org/arcade_joysticks.htm) is your friend.

Title: Re: Plans for an arcade stick?
Post by: Franco B on December 23, 2009, 04:09:25 am

Take a look [here (http://www.slagcoin.com/joystick/introduction.html)]. There is a wealth of joystick building information as well as a couple of plans/build guides.

Title: Re: Plans for an arcade stick?
Post by: bartre on December 23, 2009, 06:01:49 am

wow, thanks for the quick replies.
after looking around in that wayback machine link, i managed to find a pretty basic set of blueprints, thanks EwJ!