--- Curtis Olson wrote: > On 12/27/06, Sid Boyce wrote: > > > > Absolutely stupendous! Looks like a must have. > > I'm not quite ready to call it a "must have" but it's definitely fun ... > no > more dead band in your joystick, but it is noisier than your typical > joystick.
Is it accurate enough for landings? I'm wondering whether it would be useful as an input device for installations where a mechanical input device is likely to get broken. I'm working on two FG projects right now: 1) Using FG in a local flight museum for interactive displays. 2) Building a flex-wing microlight training device. A common theme for them both is creating robust input devices. I was chatting to some of the museum staff who have experience with interactive displays. In one science display they were using a hand-driven water pump to drive a water wheel. Despite being a heavy duty piece of kit designed for boats and simply consisting of a lever and bellows, it was broken within days of the display opening. The lesson seemed to be "build it and they will break it". For the museum project it seems that one can either try to build something that excedes the ability of children to break it, or simply bulk buy large numbers of (very) cheap joysticks and include the replacement in running costs. The problem is that both approaches could be quite expensive. Does anyone have any suggestions/experience with this? For the flex-wing microlight, the control-bar is quite different from a normal joystick, so I was intending to build a custom control using a USB joystick controller. In both cases, using a wii-mote as the controller is intriguing as (I assume) it has no moving parts and therefore should be more robust than a mechanical solution. Any thoughts ? -Stuart Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
