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NEW PRODUCT: Ultimarc ServoStik. 4-8 way joystick with powered restrictor.
Le Chuck:
--- Quote from: Mysterioii on August 11, 2012, 09:43:43 pm ---I think this product as it is now is already a huge improvement over manually-switched joysticks or the servo mod.
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The servo mod can control up to six different servos and provide push button toggle functionality from a single $20 controller. That is a $15 controller savings that operates 4 additional units allowing a builder to potentially do a rotating screen and four players worth of auto switching servo modded controllers all from a single control unit that is already supported in both MALA and to some extent Hyperspin thanks to the work of DaOld Man and Terrahawk. I think it's a bit early to discount the servo mod especially since that is exactly what this is a take on. As previously stated I'm excited by the new design and look forward to seeing it in action but I look to the horizon for more holistic answer when it comes to cab automation.
Mysterioii:
--- Quote from: Le Chuck on August 11, 2012, 10:57:53 pm ---
--- Quote from: Mysterioii on August 11, 2012, 09:43:43 pm ---I think this product as it is now is already a huge improvement over manually-switched joysticks or the servo mod.
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The servo mod can control up to six different servos and provide push button toggle functionality from a single $20 controller. That is a $15 controller savings that operates 4 additional units allowing a builder to potentially do a rotating screen and four players worth of auto switching servo modded controllers all from a single control unit that is already supported in both MALA and to some extent Hyperspin thanks to the work of DaOld Man and Terrahawk. I think it's a bit early to discount the servo mod especially since that is exactly what this is a take on. As previously stated I'm excited by the new design and look forward to seeing it in action but I look to the horizon for more holistic answer when it comes to cab automation.
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Haha man I'm rubbin' some people the wrong way methinks. :lol My comment was more intended as "a huge improvement over manually switched joysticks" and I tacked on the thing about the servo mod as an afterthought. I see it as an improvement as a nice, contained drop-in package... I like the physical implementation and the possibilities provided by the control interface (even though some of those possibilities are only in my head). I am not intending to discount the servo mod; it's actually pretty cool and since I've got two magstick pluses sitting in boxes awaiting a CP rebuild I've been considering implementing it. Also when I said I considered it an improvement I am not considering the overall cost at all.... you make good points there. Certainly that would be a key consideration when planning your CP but I was speaking only to the product and it's functionality, not it's cost.
I think you said earlier in the thread that you'd been working on something like this in your garage recently too... I'd actually also been thinking through a possible implementation for auto-switching. ;D I think it could be done even cheaper and simpler... but, I haven't gotten even close to making a prototype and who knows if I ever will, for all I know my ideas might be entirely non-practical.
Cheers bro. I like your work, wish I had that micro-Star Wars cab! :cheers:
Gray_Area:
--- Quote from: Mysterioii on August 11, 2012, 09:43:43 pm ---Thanks for telling me what to say... ::) ;D
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I'm just sayin that brevity and concision do wonders.
Mysterioii:
--- Quote from: Gray_Area on August 12, 2012, 12:29:55 am ---
--- Quote from: Mysterioii on August 11, 2012, 09:43:43 pm ---Thanks for telling me what to say... ::) ;D
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I'm just sayin that brevity and concision do wonders.
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Haha yeah honestly I've been hearing that my whole career, but I'm a details guy and I'm too old to change. ;D Cheers to you too, man. :cheers:
wweumina:
--- Quote from: Gray_Area on August 11, 2012, 01:46:37 am ---
--- Quote from: Mysterioii on August 10, 2012, 11:05:29 pm --- He's using some sort of uC with a USB interface as the controller... I assume it's the (I think 28-pin) surface mount chip in the pic. I guess the DIP chip is an amplifier for driving the motor. 28 pins, I would have to assume there's some free GPIO there. Heck I'd solder some wire wrap wire right to the pads on the chip if the firmware supported the state-reflecting outputs I'm suggesting.
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That bit right there is the stuff you need to be saying, in question format, to Andy. No more, no less.
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Really? I don't think this was really put the right way, but I'm not going to tell you how to post... ;)
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