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--- Scott Stites <scottnoanh@peoplepc.com> wrote:
> A long, long time ago, MECI used to offer a 150K joystick, made by
> Noble.  I bought some, and they were sweet indeed.  In fact, they
> were the one's used by Grant Richter for his Joyrider modules, I
> believe.

I bought 5 or so of these for my own upcoming DIY joystick project
that will be integrated into my modular.  However, they are not
spring loaded to return to center like Dana wanted.

> Scroll down to the 150K joystick (not the 10K).

the 150K is a nice value.  But, no problem working with the 10K
either.
 
> Now, when MECI sold them, they sold these really nice, very cool
> bat handles for them.  I don't know if Alltronics supplies those,
> but if you want them, MECI still has them:

When I got them from MECI, I order the joysticks and the bat handles.
 The joysticks came with the handles, so I have 2 handles for each
stick.

> To top that off, my idea of a really cool, yet very simple joystick
> controller is Scott Bernardi's design.  Not a lot of parts, but
> some real bang for what he uses - unipolar/bipolar modes, process
> signals, cv's or generate voltages, inverting and noninverting
> positions, etc.  I've breadboarded it, and it does deliver.  You
> can scope it out here:
> 
> http://home.comcast.net/~sbernardi/elec/og2/og3_joystick.html

That is the thing about joysticks.  what do you want.  The designs
can vary so much depending on just waht a person wants.  My schematic
was to illustrate ho really simple something like what Dana wanted
actually was.  And, I woudl be happy to fill in compnent values. 
But, that may depend on the joystick pot values.  So, I say find your
joystick first, then tweak your circuit.  You can pretty much work
around any joystick pot values.

Larry




		
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