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Build your own joystick?
Serpent:
Do you know of any project that involves the building of custom sticks, I mean, not installing already manufactured arcade sticks, but creating own sticks from scratch?
SirPoonga:
Do you mean the joystick itself or a control panel (buttons and all)? If the latter then you are in the right place.
If you meant he joystick itself that would just be some plastics molding, you can easily find someone to do that but maybe not for cheap.
Serpent:
I mean the sticks themselves, not cps (I know thousands of projects of custom made cps). A stick, after all, is not a very complicated piece of hardware. I would be great to know someone how has been able to create a working stick using home tools.
NoOne=NBA=:
I carved a Tron-style handle awhile back with a Dremel tool.
I've also built 2-ways using copper pipe and leaf switches.
The 2-ways are really easy to build.
Basically all you need is a pipe, two switches, and something to make the pipe pivot in the middle (a bolt, or pin).
Once you have a stick that pivots in the middle, you put the switches in the path of travel on one end, and hold on to the other end.
The 4-way and 8-way bases are more complicated than it's worth spending time on IMO though.
It's easier to do hacks when you get to those, and you get better results.
patrickl:
I build a 2-way joystick from 2 microswitches, a nail, some small pieces of wood and a bead. But that was for a 1:6 scale microcab ;D
But seriously ... I only have seen people build their own joystick handles. I agree with NoOne=NBA= that building the base would probably not even be that easy and probably not wworth the effort since you can buy them reasonably cheap anyway. Or are you looking for a special joystick type that is not readily available?
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