>>>>>> Anyone know of any good information on do-it-yourself joysticks and >>>>>> controls?
First of all: can you two please stop this ridiculous top-posting & full-quoting? That's a disease! Only quote what you are *directly* referring to, and put your comments *under* it. Repeating the whole thread on the bottom of each message is for idiots, which you both aren't. (I know, it never happens in forums. Sigh ... :-) * JD Fenech -- Wednesday 06 December 2006 07:46: > Anyone know of any good information on do-it-yourself joysticks and > controls? This is regularly discussed on irc://irc.flightgear.org/#flightgear. The best way seems to be to take a cheap USB joystick or (probably better) an analog PC gamepad (cheaper, more buttons), to dismantle it, replace the often low-quality potentiometers with good ones (or other sensors types like Hall-effect sensors etc.). These devices are already recognized by the operating system and fgfs can directly work with them. All you need to do is to write an XML driver file, and build the new hardware around it. This link has been posted on IRC and seems like an excellent (and quite inexpensive) solution: http://www.opencockpits.com/modules.php?name=Content2&pa=showpage&pid=56 m. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-users
