09-05-2006, 22:55
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ToppRamen: It's-a-cause of my hair.
AKA: ConnorTrentChambers
 FRC #1138 (EagleEngineering; (E^2);) Team Role: Mechanical
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Join Date: May 2006
Rookie Year: 2003
Location: West Hills, California
Posts: 3
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Re: If you could make your own...
Well, as much as I'd hate to admit it:
Our FORMER presidente Jordan decided that it was possible to hook up some USB Cyborg Joysticks (well, wire up the buttons and POTS)
(the cool ones with the folding base)
up to some serial cable and bam: some gameport cyborgs!
Nope; they were linear pots that self adjusted using drivers... so we never got a good reading off of them.
Solution: Take the cyborg joystick part (sans base) and screw them on to the kit joystick bases (POTS inside, no worries). It worked, but it took him a week to do a job I told him had to be done in two days...
Lots a whining, but a cool end result. The piece-de-resistance (Im in french III) was a custom bent aluminum switchplate:
heres a pic of me and our CURRENT presidente Jeff, who was VP so took Jordan's place:
Old school distressed plastic labeling:
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