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Re: USB Joystick adapter is here!

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Originally Posted by Joe Johnson
Very cool... ...very clever too.

My memory is a bit rusty, but I think that each joystick port on the OI only has 4 switches and 2 analog channels. How do you get 4 analog channels (in mode 1) or 12 digital channels (in mode 2) plumbed to the OI? You must have an adaptor/harness???

Joe J.
I'm not sure about the OI (never used full size RC before, only miniRC), but the joystick port supports a max of 4 analogs and 4 digitals, mode 1 should be possible.
Maybe mode 2 turns the 4 analogs into 8 digital inputs via multiplexing each digital input into 4 respective analog levels?
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