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Howard_Casto:
Well what I do know is that it's rather futile to spend a lot of money on any controller because eventually it won't work in windows anymore. 

I had some really nice wingman flight sticks...  only they stopped working after win 9x....  I looked into getting a cheap usb wingman with FF to test afterburners outputs... well the cheaper ones don't have win 7/vista 64 bit drivers.  Sometimes I wonder if the companies do this on purpose because high end controllers are such a niche market and they want to ensure that you buy their product over and over. 

Things have gotten better since the invention of HID drivers, but you have to be really careful.  My rule of thumb is if you have to install drivers to get something like the FF to work.. don't bother buying it.   

Fursphere:
Windows 2000 / XP broken a lot of Win9x stuff.   But Win7 actually lets some of the *really* old Win9x stuff work.   So it comes and goes in waves.

I had the Thrustmaster F22 / F16 throttle setup ($350 i think?) back in the day.  15 pin joystick and 5 pin AT keyboard connectors.  Ya...  good luck with that today.  :(

BadMouth:
I've seen a couple custom interfaces using arduino and similar devices. 
Last time I looked, nobody was sharing their software, but it's been about a year.
One guy was talking about selling his boards. 
I've been meaning to have a look around the internet again concerning this option.

It would be nice if we had an interface on an opensource platform and software similar to logitech profiler.

Howard_Casto:
I can make a avr show up as a hid joystick right now if that's what you mean.  Buttonbox and similar projects have been available for years.  The thing is that the parts for the physical wheel are the costly bit.

BadMouth:

--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on March 14, 2013, 03:26:17 pm ---I can make a avr show up as a hid joystick right now if that's what you mean.  Buttonbox and similar projects have been available for years.  The thing is that the parts for the physical wheel are the costly bit.

--- End quote ---

I was thinking as an interface for a Happ FFB wheel.
The couple I've seen didn't suffer from the centering wobble that the servo amp/logitech hack does.

The motor in the ECCI doesn't look much different than a happ, it's fed 24V, just like the Happ....and it uses a usb interface board originally intended for a Happ.  ;)
The website says it's a 200w motor.  I'll have to convert the specs on my happ to wattage and see what it says.

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