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Re: Help with programming new controllers, please.

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Originally Posted by Oumonkey
...It seems I won't be able to use the one joystick because it has about 6 buttons and I a few different axis...
If you really wanted to use everything on that joystick, you could make some sort of 'reverse y' to connect that joystick to two of the inputs on the OI. As Adam said, there's a maximum of 4 analog and 4 digital inputs on each port, times 4 ports, 16 analogs and 16 digitals max. Each axis of movement on the joystick is read by a potentiometer, which gives an analog value. Each button gives a digital value, 0 or 1. However, I believe the 4-way thumb-stick on the KOP joysticks gives an analog value, with a specific number for each position. I'm not 100% sure on this, though.

Last season, we made a 4 way y-splitter to connect all four CH sticks to one port, since we only wanted/needed the y-axis and one button on each joystick, that left three other ports open for anything else we wanted to put on. You would be going the other way around, connecting one stick to two ports.

Just an idea.

Good luck!
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